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

June 27, 2024

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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 reduce as a consequence of embargo causes of what the crew was engaged on: the reveal of three new hosts all designed by the proficient artist Dustin Weaver.

Oni Press’ upcoming Epitapths from the Abyss will characteristic three new horror hosts as an alternative 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 can even be included in future EC horror collection to come back with some extra storylines to be advised sooner or later.

“Normally an enormous a part of designing characters is costuming, however in trying again on the authentic Tales From the Crypt comics, it’s clear that a very powerful and defining options of the horror hosts are their ghoulish faces,” mentioned Weaver concerning his method to designing the three new hosts. “It’s all concerning the faces, and with these fashionable host designs I needed to hold on that custom. Ensuring the faces had been suitably fiendish, correctly merciless, and the correct amount 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. In the end, 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 probably be featured all through the double-sized, 40-page situation arriving in comedian retailers worldwide on July twenty fourth . . . and proceed by way of a number of new EC horror collection yet-to-be-revealed sooner or later.

“Normally an enormous a part of designing characters is costuming, however in trying again on the authentic Tales From the Crypt comics, it’s clear that a very powerful and defining options of the horror hosts are their ghoulish faces,” mentioned Dustin Weaver. “It’s all concerning the faces, and with these fashionable host designs I needed to hold on that custom. Ensuring the faces had been suitably fiendish, correctly merciless, and the correct amount 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. In the end, it’s simply such a deal with to attract characters so unabashedly depraved.”

“Crafted from the lifeless heart of depravity and delight, these new horror hosts are primed and able to assume their roles as storytellers,” mentioned Corey Mifsud, Government 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 can certainly maintain the reader up at evening!”

The Grave-Digger

IN HIS CEMETERY, EVERY TOMBSTONE TELLS A TALE! Because the central host of the upcoming EPITAPHS FROM THE ABYSS collection from EC Comics and Oni Press, The Grave-Digger’s charming visage will quickly regale readers far and vast with the tales of murderous intent and ailing 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 any 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 preserving his secret sect’s surprisingly intensive forms of terror operating 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 Concern, and plenty of extra into the wicked hearts of an unsuspecting world, the immortal EC COMICS returns . . . with its first ALL-NEW collection in practically 70 years on July twenty fourth – solely in EPITAPHS FROM THE ABYSS #1!

In our first extra-sized, 40-page dose of worry, witness stunning 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!