EC Comics unveils its new horror hosts in Epitaphs from The Abyss #1

About two weeks again, we’d spoken with Oni Press president Hunter Gorinson concerning the revival of EC comics. A part of that interview was lower resulting from embargo causes of what the workforce was engaged on: the reveal of three new hosts all designed by the gifted artist Dustin Weaver.

Oni Press’ upcoming Epitapths from the Abyss will characteristic three new horror hosts as a substitute of your conventional Cryptkeeper. These creatures are the Grave-Digger, The Tormentor, and The Grim Inquisitor. All three will make their first appearances within the double-sized 40-page Epitaphs from the Abyss #1. They may even be included in future EC horror sequence to return with some extra storylines to be instructed sooner or later.

“Normally an enormous a part of designing characters is costuming, however in trying again on the unique Tales From the Crypt comics, it’s clear that crucial and defining options of the horror hosts are their ghoulish faces,” stated Weaver relating to his strategy to designing the three new hosts. “It’s all concerning the faces, and with these trendy host designs I needed to hold on that custom. Ensuring the faces had been suitably fiendish, correctly merciless, and the correct quantity of unseemly was key, however there’s additionally an effort right here to go a step additional and convey some extra thought and characterization to their costuming and physicality as properly. Finally, it’s simply such a deal with to attract characters so unabashedly depraved.”

If it’s not apparent, we on the beat are excited for the return of EC. You’ll be able to learn extra in Oni/EC comics’ official press launch:

PORTLAND OR, (June 25, 2024) – JUST AS EVERY COFFIN NEEDS A CORPSE, SO TOO DOES EVERY STORY NEED A STORYTELLER! FORTUNATELY, THIS TERRIFYING TRIO HAS YOU HANDLED ON ALL COUNTS . . . Only one month away from the long-awaited resurrection of the notorious and influential EC Comics within the pages of EPITAPHS FROM THE ABYSS #1, Oni Press – the a number of Eisner and Harvey Award-winning writer of groundbreaking comics and graphic novels since 1997 – is proud to unveil the primary have a look at EC’s all-new, never-before-seen, dead-and-not-getting-better-anytime-soon trio of horror hosts . . . Meet EC’s all-new masters of menace: The Grave-Digger, The Tormentor, and The Grim Inquisitor!

Making their first full look on the EPITAPHS FROM THE ABYSS #1 Horror Host Variant cowl by acclaimed artist Dustin Weaver (Avengers, Paklis), Weaver’s work on and character designs for EC’s new torturous trio will likely be featured all through the double-sized, 40-page concern arriving in comedian retailers worldwide on July twenty fourth . . . and proceed by a number of new EC horror sequence yet-to-be-revealed sooner or later.

“Normally an enormous a part of designing characters is costuming, however in trying again on the unique Tales From the Crypt comics, it’s clear that crucial and defining options of the horror hosts are their ghoulish faces,” stated Dustin Weaver. “It’s all concerning the faces, and with these trendy host designs I needed to hold on that custom. Ensuring the faces had been suitably fiendish, correctly merciless, and the correct quantity of unseemly was key, however there’s additionally an effort right here to go a step additional and convey some extra thought and characterization to their costuming and physicality as properly. Finally, it’s simply such a deal with to attract characters so unabashedly depraved.”

“Crafted from the lifeless middle of depravity and delight, these new horror hosts are primed and able to assume their roles as storytellers,” stated Corey Mifsud, Govt Director of William M. Gaines Agent, Inc. “All three characters honor the creepily comical spirit of EC, however contribute uniquely twisted factors of views that may absolutely preserve the reader up at night time!”

The Grave-Digger

IN HIS CEMETERY, EVERY TOMBSTONE TELLS A TALE! Because the central host of the upcoming EPITAPHS FROM THE ABYSS sequence from EC Comics and Oni Press, The Grave-Digger’s charming visage will quickly regale readers far and broad with the tales of murderous intent and in poor health fortune that earned his cemetery’s denizens their locations six toes deep.

The Tormentor

INTRODUCING HER ROYAL TRAVESTY OF PAIN! A one-eyed butcheress with a penchant for frolicsome flaying and audacious amputation, there isn’t a weapon of alternative or implement of torture too grisly to flee The Tormentor’s discover. However she nonetheless holds a keenness for “the classics” – like her red-hot poker and rusty pruning shears!

The Grim Inquisitor

THE DEACON OF DOOM! THE VICEROY OF THE VICE! THE PRINCIPAL OF PUNISHMENT … OR SO HE’D LIKE YOU TO THINK! A mad monk with a fanatic’s eye for conserving his secret sect’s surprisingly in depth paperwork of terror working like clockwork, The Grim Inquisitor fears no man . . . besides The Supreme Inquisitor, who calls for extraordinarily exacting outcomes from his right-hand man and deputy grasp of obscure occult rites.

THINK YOU’VE SEEN ALL THAT HORROR HAS TO OFFER? THINK AGAIN! From the writer that drove Tales from the Crypt, Vault of Horror, Hang-out of Worry, and lots of extra into the wicked hearts of an unsuspecting world, the immortal EC COMICS returns . . . with its first ALL-NEW sequence in practically 70 years on July twenty fourth – solely in EPITAPHS FROM THE ABYSS #1!

In our first extra-sized, 40-page dose of concern, witness surprising tales of torment and pressure within the timeless EC custom as wrenched from the grave by the vile intentions of acclaimed writers Brian Azzarello (Batman: Damned, 100 Bullets), Chris Condon (That Texas Blood, Evening Individuals), J. Holtham (Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Story), and Stephanie Phillips (Harley Quinn, Grim) and realized into bloody actuality by “all-slaughter” artists Jorge Fornes (Rorschach, Hazard Road), Phil Hester (Household Tree), Peter Krause (Irredeemable), and Vlad Legostaev (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)!

What the Comics Code Authority couldn’t kill has solely made it stronger . . . EC COMICS LIVES AGAIN IN EPITAPHS FROM THE ABYSS #1 – that includes a razor-sharp gallery of covers impressed by the everlasting artistry of the EC’s infernal legacy by Lee Bermejo (Batman: Damned, A Vicious Circle), Andrea Sorrentino (Gideon Falls, Batman: The Imposter) with Dave Stewart (Hellboy), Jay Stephens (Dwellings), Rian Hughes (The Multiversity), and Dustin Weaver (S.H.I.E.L.D.)!

EC Comics – and three new unflinchingly undead horror hosts – enters the twenty first century with a jugular-pounding, 40-page horror milestone on July twenty fourth, solely in EPITAPHS FROM THE ABYSS #1!