CRUEL KINGDOM #1-4 (collectif)

Le label EC Comics de Oni Press s’enrichira début 2025 d’une nouvelle mini-série intitulée Cruel Kingdom. Après l’horreur et la S.F. pour Epitaphs from the Abyss et Cruel Universe, cette nouvelle anthologie sera axée sur la dark fantasy. Parmi les premiers auteurs cités, il y a Al Ewing, Cullen Bunn, Chris Condon, Dennis Culver, Justin Jordan et Leomacs.

Le premier numéro de Cruel Kingdom aura droit à plusieurs couvertures, dont une « homage cover » dessinée par Jay Stevens, et faisant un clin d’œil à Moon Girl, une super-héroïne mésestimée mais figurant au catalogue des EC Comics, avant la période pour laquelle ils ont été célèbres.

Mais Moon Girl, qui est-ce ?
Petit rappel :

Jim

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Homage cover qui parodie cette couverture :

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Tori.

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Aperçu :

La variant du #1 par Tom Fowler :

La couverture du #2 par Adam Pollina :

et extrait par Andrea Mutti :

Je viens de feuilleter le premier, c’est très bon.

ONCE UPON A TIME…BLOOD WILL BE SPILLED! Oni Press presents 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 glorious 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, Chris Condon, and Steve Niles alongside enchanting artists PJ Holden, Andrea Mutti, and David Lapham! 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 acclaimed writer Chris Condon and spine-tingling artist PJ Holden as EC brings readers face-to-face with the business-end of the sword of Illum the Great!

Cast your gaze upon Cruel Kingdom and despair! Featuring covers from Adam Pollina, Jay Stephens, and Rian Hughes, readers can descend into darkness when Cruel Kingdom #2 arrives in shops on February 5th!

(W) Corinna Bechko, Christopher Cantwell (A) Kano (CA) Adam Pollina

Yes, fair reader: The terrible wonders of this CRUEL KINGDOM are far from over! Steel thy wits for more tales of sadistic sorcery as forged in the foundries of the immortal EC tradition!
To be revealed in the pages of this forbidden text: All-new, dread-drenched spells of magic and myth summoned from the cauldron via mad wizard by the vaingloriously violent writers Corinna Bechko (Green Lantern: Earth One), Christopher Cantwell (Out of Alcatraz), among others and etched into uncanny reality by by sword-swinging artists Kano (Gotham Central), and many more!

In Shops: Mar 05, 2025

SRP: $4.99

(W) J Holtham, Greg Pak (A) Valeria Burzo (CA) Adam Pollina

In EC’s final slash through the realms of fatalistic fantasy, step once more through the vale into a shadowy world of demons and dragons, alchemy and anguish . . . where a fork in the path can bet the difference between untold treasures and certain doom!
Leading this month’s dark excursions into the weirdest frontiers of wonder: J. Holtham, Greg Pak, Valeria Burzo & more!

In Shops: Apr 02, 2025

SRP: $4.99