Plus: Your First Look Inside Steve Niles & Andrea Mutti’s “Hammer of Witches” – In Stores February 5th!
ONCE UPON A TIME…BLOOD WILL BE SPILLED! Oni Press – the multiple Eisner and Harvey Award-winning publisher of groundbreaking comics and graphic novels since 1997 – is thrilled to present a terrifying look at the next shocking year of EC Comics with your first look inside CRUEL KINGDOM #2!
Enter the lost aeon of brave knights, foreboding wizards, and gloriously skull-crushing brutality as EC Comics’ first-ever dark fantasy title unleashes its next full-throated battle cry of all-out terror with spellbinding writers Cameron Chittock (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles x Stranger Things), Chris Condon (Ultimate Wolverine) and Steve Niles (30 Days Of Night) alongside enchanting artists PJ Holden (2000 AD), Andrea Mutti (Rebels), and David Lapham (Stray Bullets)! Lo, this is no ordinary storybook – this is CRUEL KINGDOM!
CRUEL KINGDOM, the first dark fantasy anthology series from EC, features a variety of spellbinding tales from some of the most talented – and twisted – names in comics, including Eisner Award-winning master of horror Steve Niles (Criminal Macabre) and skull-splitting artist Andrea Mutti (Rebels) as EC gives us a front row seat for the signature sporting event of the 18th century – the witch trial – in “Hammer of Witches”:
From the restless imaginations that spawned EPITAPHS FROM THE ABYSSand CRUEL UNIVERSE, cast your gaze upon CRUEL KINGDOM and despair! Featuring covers from Adam Pollina (X-Force), Jay Stephens (Dwellings), and Rian Hughes (The Multiversity), readers can descend into darkness when CRUEL KINGDOM #2 arrives in shops on February 5th!
CRUEL KINGDOM #2 (of 4)
WRITTEN BY CHRIS CONDON, CAMERON CHITTOCK, & STEVE NILES
ART BY ANDREA MUTTI, P.J. HOLDEN, & DAVID LAPHAM
COVER A BY ADAM POLLINA
COVER B BY TOM FOWLER & BILL CRABTREE
HOMAGE VARIANT (1:10) BY JAY STEPHENS
B&W ARTIST EDITION VARIANT (1:20) BY TOM FOWLER
ARCHIVE EDITION VARIANT (1:50) BY RIAN HUGHES
ON SALE FEBRUARY 5th | $4.99 | 40 PGS. | FC
FOC: JANUARY 13TH