EC Cruel Universe: Book One Library Edition

Illustrated by Charlie Adlard and Kano
Published by Oni Press
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About the Book

EC Comics bursts free from the singularity in one technologically tormented deluxe collection! Entropy, oblivion, and annihilation await as Oni Press and EC Comics present the Eisner Award–nominated sci-fi series Cruel Universe, collected in a premium-edition deluxe collection for the very first time! Featuring fearsome storytellers Charlie Adlard (The Walking Dead), Corinna Bechko (The Space Between), Christopher Cantwell (Thanos), Chris Condon (That Texas Blood), Cecil Castellucci (Girl on Film), Melissa Flores (Power Rangers Prime), Sarah Gailey (Eat the Rich), Kano (Gotham Central), Matt Kindt (Mind MGMT), David Lapham (Stray Bullets), Ann Nocenti (Daredevil), Greg Pak (Ronin Island), Stephanie Phillips (Phoenix), Ben H. Winters (The Last Policeman), and many more. Plus: Fifty pages of “behind-the-screams” material—including in-depth production art, character designs, and cover galleries—alongside all-new, exclusive commentary. Collects Cruel Universe #1–5 and Cruel Universe 2 #1–12.

About the Authors

Corinna Bechko is a Hugo- and Eisner-nominated New York Times bestselling author. Her work includes Invisible Republic, Star Wars: Legacy, Savage Hulk, Angel, Once Upon a Time, Court of the Dead, Green Lantern: Earth One, and The Expanse. Bechko lives in Los Angeles, where she works with dinosaurs and rescues parrots.

Matt Kindt is a Harvey Award–winning and New York Times bestselling writer and artist of comics and graphic novels. His work includes MIND MGMT, BRZRKR(with Keanu Reeves), Bang!, Eniac, Revolver, 3 Story, Super Spy, 2 Sisters, and Pistolwhip. He has been nominated for four Eisner Awards and three Harvey Awards (and won once). His work has been published in French, Spanish, Italian, and German. The author lives in St. Louis, Missouri, with his wife and Dept H. collaborator, the colorist and artist Sharlene Kindt.

Ben H. Winters is the New York Times bestselling, Edgar Award–winning, and Philip K. Dick Award–winning author of Big Time, The Quiet Boy, Golden State, Underground Airlines, the Last Policeman trilogy, and the mash-up novel Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters. Winters has also worked extensively in television. He has served as a writer/producer on the FX cult hit Legion as well as Manhunt on Apple TV+, and he is the creator of the hit CBS drama Tracker. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, three kids, and one large dog.

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About the Illustrators

Charlie Adlard was born August 1966 in the town of Shrewsbury, England and, having moved away to study film and video at art college, eventually moved back and still resides there today. Before moving back to Shrewsbury, he spent a brief stint in London, finding out that the BA he’d earned at art college was pretty useless in getting a job in the film industry, and, after failing to set the world alight playing the drums in a rock band, eventually settled on the “third” option—which was comics. An option he finally realized should have been number one right from the beginning. After spending two years back in Shrewsbury working on a portfolio, he eventually found his first work on the Judge Dredd Megazine in 1992 and hasn’t looked back since.

Kano is the pseudonym of Spanish comic book artist Jose Ángel Cano López. Kano began his career at the age of thirteen, editing Spanish-language comics fanzines. At fifteen, he was already doing layouts and design work for Planeta-DeAgostini. Kano is a founding member of the Spanish magazine about comics, Krazy Comics, as well as the Phoenix Studio, which provided design, illustration, and publishing services and was eventually merged with Camaleón Ediciones, a publishing house that Kano worked for in his early days. He has worked for both DC Comics and Marvel Comics. He worked on a long run of Action Comics including the “Emperor Joker” storyline, as well as Gotham Central and Swamp Thing. He worked on Daredevil, Iron Fist, Man Thing, and Beta Ray Bill Godhunter for Marvel, as well as others.

Product Details

  • Publisher: Oni Press (June 29, 2027)
  • Length: 416 pages
  • ISBN13: 9798894884394
  • Ages: 16 - 99

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