Feast Your Eyes on Chilling Covers and Deadly Details for EC Comics’ CRUEL UNIVERSE 2 #7, TORTURED HEARTS #1, and CATACOMB OF TORMENT #8

After delivering thrills and chills all year long on the paneled page, EC Comics and Oni Press will still have plenty of frightful fun for readers to lay their eyes upon in the dawn of the new year, and as a terrifying treat for Daily Dead readers, we have a look at the eye-catching (and eye-gouging) covers and deadly details for Cruel Universe 2 #7, the Valentine's Day special Tortured Hearts #1, and the blood-splattered Catacomb of Torment #8!

Ahead of their forthcoming February releases from Oni Press, you can peruse the perilous covers and sinister synopses for all three issues below, and to keep up to date on all of Oni Press' exciting releases, be sure to visit:

• https://www.onipress.com/

CRUEL UNIVERSE 2 #7

Warm flesh! Cold technology! As an astronaut, you have collided both together in an unwieldy alliance to survive the harsh vacuum of space. Now, as you wait to see whether all of your precious airlocks and heat shields will keep you from getting freeze-dried by the very cosmos you yearn to explore, never fear—there’s an all-new issue of CRUEL UNIVERSE to help you keep calm!

In the next installment of EC Comics’ Eisner- and Ringo Award–nominated sensation: Stargazing writers Anthony Mauro (Salvation), Greg Pak (Planet Hulk), and Amy Roy (EC’s Epitaphs from the Abyss) are transmitting live from the scene of an interstellar disaster, as coldly calculating artists Kano (Action Comics), David Lapham (Stray Bullets), and Malachi Ward (Black Hammer Reborn) record the distant pinpricks of light from their exploding space ships as they reach Earth hundreds of years later. Who said SCIENCE can’t be entertaining?!

Cover A by Tom Fowler

Cover B by Mike Huddleston

Homage Variant by Albert Monteys

B&W Artist Edition Variant by Mike Huddleston

Archive Edition Variant by Malachi Ward

EC TORTURED HEARTS #1

LOVE IS PAIN . . . AND WE MEAN IT LITERALLY THIS TIME!

Did your heart ever break so hard that it felt like Cupid himself had plunged his sharp little arrow into your ribcage, only to leave a sucking chest wound for all the world to see? No?! Well, are you free on the second Wednesday in February?!

In the unrelenting tradition of EC Comics, here’s one for all of you lovesick lunatics, rancid romantics, and forlorn fatalities as Oni Press proudly presents our next 56-page, coffin-shaped bouquet of brutality in TORTURED HEARTS #1—a giant-sized special full of soft whispers and death rattles from hot-blooded writers Jordie Bellaire (Redlands), Tini Howard (Excalibur) & Blake Howard (Vampire: The Masquerade), Ann Nocenti (Daredevil), and Amy Roy (EC’s Epitaphs from the Abyss), alongside candy-coated artists Sebastián Cabrol (Hulk: Maestro), Fabiana Mascolo (Cyberpunk 2077), Dan McDaid (EC’s Outlaw Showdown) and Arjuna Susini (Lamentation)!

Plus: Another newly restored and authentically remastered classic from the EC vaults by the legendary William M. Gaines, Al Feldstein, and Reed Crandall!

Hey, loverboy, we’ve all had “the blues” . . . Pick up TORTURED HEARTS #1 to shake them off before they turn black and start to smell bad!

Cover A by Dustin Weaver

Cover B by Miguel Mercado

Cover C by Tom Fowler

Homage Variant by Shawn McManus

B&W Artist Edition Variant by Tom Fowler

Archive Edition Variant by Patricia Martín

CATACOMB OF TORMENT #8

Is winter’s woe upon thee? Come on into the CATACOMB OF TORMENT—where our horrific hostess, the Tormentor, always keeps the pyre roaring!

Take sickly comfort in three bloody new tales of miserable merriment in the immortal EC Comics mold—hauled out from the depths of the Tormentor’s catacomb and fiendishly stitched together by caustic creators Rafael Scavone (Hit-Girl) & Rafael Albuquerque (American Vampire), Paul Tobin (The Witcher) & Arjuna Susini (Lamentation), and Robert Menegus (Necromancer Bill) & Valeria Burzo (High Strangeness)!

Winter may be coming to an end, but EC Comics NEVER DIE!

Cover A by Ariel Olivetti

Cover B by Tom Fowler

Homage Variant by Shawn McManus

B&W Artist Edition Variant by Tom Fowler

Archive Edition Variant by Patricia Martín