Courtesy of Oni Press, we have a preview from the upcoming Cruel Kingdom Vol. 1, specifically the tale “Friendly Visitors” by Al Ewing and Kano.
From my review of the issue, it came from:
“Friendly Visitors” by Al Ewing and Kano follows the opening and also combines sci-fi with fantasy. A space traveler visits a person who wields magic, but he portends his technology is far superior. Ewing and Kano make a strong case for things not appearing as they seem, with the space traveler grossly underestimating their magic. It’s a nice twist-ending sort of tale.
Read the preview below!
WHERE ONCE A CRUEL UNIVERSE BECKONED . . . NOW A CRUEL KINGDOM SHALL REIGN! Oni Press is proud to unveil a spellbinding new chapter in the distinguished lineage of EC history! Enter Cruel Kingdom—EC’s first-ever dark-fantasy anthology conjuring tales of MAGIC, MYTH, and MURDER from forbidden realms long before our own!
Behold the bloody and barbarous age of wizards, knights, and dragons as reimagined in the immutable EC manner as master scribes Christopher Cantwell (Out of Alcatraz), Chris Condon (Ultimate Wolverine), Al Ewing (Immortal Hulk), Steve Niles (30 Days of Night), Greg Pak (World War Hulk), Ben H. Winters (Benjamin), and more couple their forces with iron-wrought artists Charlie Adlard (The Walking Dead), PJ Holden (Judge Dredd), Kano (Gotham Central), David Lapham (Stray Bullets), Leomacs (Benjamin), John McCrea (Hitman), Andrea Mutti (Rebels), and more to forge a terrifying new vision of death, life, and adventure “once upon a time.”
From the twisted minds that spawned Epitaphs from the Abyss and Cruel Universe, steel thyself for EC’s first rite of fatal fantasy and skullduggerous sorcery in one cursed tome of comic book enchantment!
Cruel Kingdom Vol. 1
“Friendly Visitors” by superstar writer Al Ewing (Immortal Hulk, Venom) and artist Kano (Action Comics, Swamp Thing)
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