An All-Star Team Of Writers And Artists Are Serving Up Two of EC’s most-terrifying books this October…

PORTLAND, OR (July 26, 2025) – THIS OCTOBER, YOU CAN RUN … BUT YOU’LL PROBABLY DIE ANYWAY, HEH HEH! Oni Press, the multiple Eisner and Harvey Award-winning publisher of groundbreaking comics and graphic novels since 1997, and William M. Gaines Agent, Inc. are back to take you to an early grave with a first look at the horrors preternaturally predestined from EC COMICS this October! The spectre-filled season begins with an all-new, atom-shredding installment of the Eisner Award–nominated sci-fi horror anthology CRUEL UNIVERSE 2 #3 on October 1st, followed by the brutally barbaric CATACOMB OF TORMENT #4, slithering into stores on October 15th.

First: Corporate greed, human desperation, technological despair! Such postulations all are but tiny specks swallowed by the unforgiving void of CRUEL UNIVERSE 2 #3 (of 12)! The shocking and body-shivering stories continue its deep dive into futuristic depravity and darkness with three new tales from writers Cecil Castellucci (Shade the Changing Girl), Sarah Gailey (Eat the Rich, Buffy the Vampire Slayer), and Eisner Award nominee Rian Hughes (Batman: Black and White) as they get their quarks quantum entangled with the apocalyptic visions of artists Kano (EC’s Cruel Universe), Anna Readman (2000 AD), and Claire Roe (EC’s Epitaphs from the Abyss) – in comic shops everywhere October 1st with startling covers by Lee Bermejo (Batman: Damned), Greg Smallwood (Cruel Universe), Albert Monteys (Slaughterhouse-Five), and Malachi Ward (Black Hammer Reborn)!

Then: Because you demanded it – TERROR! TORTURE! FEAR! MAYHEM! After all, this comic is called CATACOMB OF TORMENT—what did you expect, kittens?! Yes, yes, bite down hard and await the inevitable, because there is no escape and it's too late—MUCH, MUCH TOO LATE—as our host, the Tormentor, carefully positions the scalpels of acutely accurate writers John Arcudi (B.P.R.D), Patricia A. Jackson (Star Wars: Tales from the Empire), and Amy Roy (EC’s Epitaphs from the Abyss) above your splayed ribcage with the assistance of mangle-minded artists Shawn Martinbrough (Thief of Thieves), Fabiana Mascolo (Catwoman), and Shawn McManus (Fables) on October 15th for CATACOMB OF TORMENT #3!

A murder mystery with extra-added murder, a seamstress seeking sartorial revenge, and a gardener taking the pruning shears to an extra-bloody bloom . . . Despair ye not because EC Comic's brutally entertaining monthly horror anthology is just getting warmed up – with the extra-added assistance of cover artists Dustin Weaver (Avengers), Reiko Murakami (Batgirl), Jay Stephens (Dwellings), and Patricia Martín (G.I. Joe), to boot!

Like a railroad spike meeting the brittle crown of a human skull, CRUEL UNIVERSE 2 #3 and CATACOMB OF TORMENT #4 are hammering into comic shops everywhere this October! . Don’t waste the Tormentor’s time – better to tell her which pieces of your torso you are the least attached to now… or else she’ll start choosing for you!

EC CRUEL UNIVERSE 2 #3 (OF 12)

WRITTEN BY CECIL CASTELLUCCI, SARAH GAILEY, & RIAN HUGHES

ART BY KANO, ANNA READMAN, & CLAIRE ROE

COVER A BY LEE BERMEJO

COVER B BY GREG SMALLWOOD

EC HOMAGE VARIANT (1:10) BY ALBERT MONTEYS

B&W ARTIST EDITION VARIANT (1:20) BY GREG SMALLWOOD

ARCHIVE EDITION (1:50) BY MALACHI WARD

ON SALE OCTOBER 1st, 2025 | $4.99 | 32 PAGES | FC

EC CATACOMB OF TORMENT #4

WRITTEN BY JOHN ARCUDI, PATRICIA A. JACKSON, & AMY ROY

ART BY SHAWN MARTINBROUGH, FABIANA MASCOLO, & SHAWN McMANUS