Oni Press and EC Comics Conjure a Hateful Hex in CRUEL KINGDOM 2 #1 – Coming in September!
Welcome Back to the Age of Sadistic Sorcery with an All-New Tome of Deranged Dark Fantasy from David M. Booher, Matt Bors, Jude Ellison S. Doyle, Ryan Kelly, Lukas Ketner, David Lapham, Curt Pires & More!
COVER A BY MARK BUCKINGHAM
HEAVY IS THE HEAD THAT WEARS THE CROWN . . . UNTIL THE KING GETS IT LOPPED OFF! Oni Press and William M. Gaines Agent, Inc. are proud to announce CRUEL KINGDOM 2 #1 (of 6)! Welcome, traveler . . . back to the blood-drenched ramparts of ye olde EC Comics that yearn for MORE tales of sadistic sorcery and malevolent magic! Yes, draw your sword and start swinging, because CRUEL KINGDOM lives again this September with an ALL-NEW volume of fatal fantasy, told in the immortal EC Comics manner by a magnificently malicious cast of all-star storytellers!
In this CRUEL KINGDOM, there is no “happily ever after” . . . and sometimes the witch hunter becomes the hunted in the end, heh heh! Come, warm yourself by the pyre as vengeance-fueled writers David M. Booher (Canto), Matt Bors (The Toxic Avenger), and Jude Ellison S. Doyle (Dead Teenagers) turn the screws in tandem with axe-wielding artists Ryan Kelly (Lucifer), Lukas Ketner (Count Crowley), and David Lapham (Stray Bullets) to extract answers the burning question of every knight and squire: Must every wizard’s tower also have an executioner’s dungeon buried down below? At EC Comics, we say “YES, OF COURSE! NOW PROCEED WITH THE BEHEADING, YOU FOOL!”
Plus: Cower in fear as upcoming issues of EC Comics’ latest six-issue exercise in “black magic gone good” prepares to feature even more writers and artists with ogre’s taste for blood and bone, including John Arcudi (B.P.R.D.), Ramón F. Bachs (Star Wars), Sarah Gailey (Magic for Liars), Sami Kivelä (The Forever Home), Curt Pires (Fireborn, Super Mondo Mega Mutts), SOM (Crocodile Black), Alison Sampson (Department of Truth), and more!
If you thought the Dark Ages were scary, just wait for the return of EC Comics’ carnage-strewn ode to high fantasy and low blows in CRUEL KINGDOM 2 #1 (of 6) – storming the ramparts of your local comic shop on September 2nd with covers from legendary artists Mark Buckingham (Miracleman), Yanick Paquette (Batman Inc.), Shawn McManus (Fables), and Rian Hughes (The Multiversity).
Cruel Kingdom 2 #1 (of 6)
Writers: David M. Booher, Matt Bors, & Jude Ellison S. Doyle
Artists: Ryan Kelly, Lukas Ketner, & David Lapham
Cover A: Mark Buckingham
Cover B: Yanick Paquette
Homage Variant (1:10): Shawn Mcmanus
B&W Artist Edition Variant (1:20): Yanick Paquette
Archive Edition (1:50): Rian Hughes
Blank Sketch Variant Cover Available
On Sale: 9/2/26
$4.99 | 32 Pages | FC
