Feel The Fear This October With EC’s CRUEL UNIVERSE 2 #3 And CATACOMB OF TORMENT #4

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

CATACOMB OF TORMENT #4 COVER A BY DUSTIN WEAVER

CRUEL UNIVERSE 2 #3 COVER A BY LEE BERMEJO

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)!