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“What perceptions will be the first to fall as time and space gives way to the endless cascade of the fourth and fifth dimensions beyond?” The perfect sinister stocking stuffer for the sci-fi horror fan in your life, EC Comics’ Cruel Universe #5 is coming out on December 4th from Oni Press, and as an early treat for Daily Dead readers, we have an exclusive look at preview pages from Corinna Bechko and Leomacs’ “The Paring Knife.”
Below, you can witness how a space station inspection takes a gruesome turn in our preview of Cruel Universe #5. In case you missed it, we also have an exclusive look at unlettered preview pages from EC Comics’ Cruel Kingdom #1, and to keep up with all things Oni Press, visit:
CRUEL UNIVERSE #5 (of 5)
WRITTEN BY CORINNA BECHKO, CULLEN BUNN & AMY ROY
ART BY DANIEL IRIZARRI, CLAIRE ROE & OTHERS
COVER A BY GREG SMALLWOOD
COVER B BY MALACHI WARD
HOMAGE VARIANT (1:10) BY JAY STEPHENS
B&W ARTIST EDITION VARIANT (1:20) BY MALACHI WARD
ARCHIVE EDITION VARIANT (1:50) BY RIAN HUGHES
How fragile this tapestry of reality is, yes? What happens when you pull at the lone, loose thread that tethers together the concept you call āhuman consciousness”? What perceptions will be the first to fall as time and space gives way to the endless cascade of the fourth and fifth dimensions beyond? Can your quaint sense of self handle the unraveling of everything you once thought constant? WE SURE HOPE SO . . . BECAUSE THIS COMIC MIGHT BE THE ONE THING KEEPING YOU SANE!
Peril and panic await within these pages as EC Comics and Oni Press unveil the final, awful truths of this CRUEL UNIVERSEābrought to you by some of todayās most brilliantly maniacal minds! Penned with awe and disbelief by the likes of Corinna Bechko, Cullen Bunn, and Amy Roy, and brought to terrible fruition by the limitless atomic collisions of the terribly talented artists Daniel Irizarri, Claire Roe and others. Rejoice, for within these pages, we have found the quantum equation for FEAR!
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Exclusive Preview of “The Paring Knife”:
COVER A BY GREG SMALLWOOD:
COVER B BY MALACHI WARD:
HOMAGE VARIANT (1:10) BY JAY STEPHENS:
B&W ARTIST EDITION VARIANT (1:20) BY MALACHI WARD:
ARCHIVE EDITION VARIANT (1:50) BY RIAN HUGHES:
