First Look: Benjamin #2 Takes Readers Further Into The Pit Of Sci-Fi Existential Dread!

The Acclaimed Mind-Bending Science Fiction Story from Psychic Storytellers Ben H. Winters and Leomacs Continues July 16th!

BENJAMIN #2 | COVER A BY CHRISTIAN WARD

PORTLAND, OR (June 20, 2025) HE DOESN’T KNOW WHY HE’S HERE – MAN? ROBOT? SIMULACRUM? OR DREAM? – Oni Press – the multiple Eisner and Harvey Award-winning publisher of groundbreaking comics and graphic novels since 1997, is proud to give readers their first look inside BENJAMIN #2, the second issue from ground-breaking miniseries by Edgar Award nominee and Philip K. Dick Award winner Ben H. Winters (EC’s Cruel Universe, The Last Policeman Trilogy) and rising star Leomacs(EC’s Epitaphs from the Abyss, Basketful of Heads)! A mind-bending tale that looks at identity and reality, BENJAMIN #2 will leave you questioning everything.

Legendary science-fiction novelist Benjamin J. Carp has just been resurrected 40 years after his death . . . and that’s not even the strangest thing that’s going to happen to him today.

In an effort to unravel the mystery of author Benjamin J. Carp’s unexpected reappearance, Benjamin and his newfound companion, Marcus, travel to the arid Joshua Tree desert, where they discover the secret lair of a cabal of scientists eager to revive the minds of some of history’s greatest thinkers in an effort to save humanity from its greatest weakness: lack of imagination. Are they to be believed . . . or is this just more sci-fi hokum torn from a chapter in one of Carp’s beloved novels?

Edgar Award nominee and Philip K. Dick Award–winning novelist Ben H. Winters (EC’s Cruel Universe, The Last Policeman Trilogy) teams with rising star Leomacs (EC’s Epitaphs from the Abyss, Basketful of Heads) to recite the next haunting chapter of 2025’s mesmerizing science-fiction daydream with profound implications for the fate of the universe, as delivered in a prestige, ad-free format.

BENJAMIN #2 | INTERIOR ART BY LEOMACS

In the tradition of Philip K. Dick’s A Scanner Darkly and Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice comes a uniquely fascinating and hilariously deranged excursion into the metatextual nexus where existence and oblivion, past and future, genius and madness, and glitter and grim reality all meet just beyond Hollywood Boulevard, and the first issue has received plenty of praise!

Presented in a prestige, ad-free format with 32 pages of story content and premium cardstock covers on every issue, BENJAMIN #2 will rise and walk in comic shops everywhere on July 16th, 2025 with gorgeous covers by multiple Eisner Award winner Christian Ward (Batman: City of Madness, Spectregraph) and visionary artist Malachi Ward (Black Hammer Reborn).

BENJAMIN #1 (OF 3)

WRITTEN BY BEN H. WINTERS

ART BY LEOMACS

COVER A BY CHRISTIAN WARD

COVER B BY LEOMACS

COVER C BY MALACHI WARD

VARIANT (1:10) BY CHRISTIAN WARD

ON SALE JUNE 18th, 2025 | $5.99 | 32 PGS | FC

BENJAMIN #2 (of 3)

WRITTEN BY BEN H. WINTERS

ART BY LEOMACS

COVER A BY CHRISTIAN WARD

COVER B BY MALACHI WARD

FULL ART VARIANT (1:10) BY CHRISTIAN WARD

ON SALE JULY 16th, 2025 | $5.99 | 32 PGS. | NO ADS | FC

IOD: 5/31/2025

FOC: 6/23/2025

BENJAMIN #3 (of 3)

WRITTEN BY BEN H. WINTERS

ART BY LEOMACS

COVER A BY CHRISTIAN WARD

COVER B BY MALACHI WARD

FULL ART VARIANT (1:10) BY CHRISTIAN WARD

ON SALE AUGUST 20th, 2025 | $5.99 | 32 PGS. | NO ADS | FC

IOD: 6/28/2025

FOC: 7/28/2025

COVER A BY CHRISTIAN WARD

COVER B BY MALACHI WARD

FULL ART VARIANT (1:10) BY CHRISTIAN WARD

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