EMBRACE OBVILION AS YOUR PHYSICAL BODY SACRIFICES ITSELF … ALL IN THE NAME OF SCIENCE! Oni Press and William M. Gaines Agent, Inc. have revealed a first look at the story “Ham Radio” by Melissa Flores and Claire Roe from Cruel Universe 2 #2 (of 12) – the next installment of the Eisner Award-nominated science-fiction anthology series featuring a stellar group of creators forcing readers beyond the brink of reality itself! 

For millennia, mankind has earned to explore the stars. Foolish humans—that was your first mistake! Like a stray space capsule that’s unexpectedly escaped our solar system and is now cursed to rocket forward at ever-escalating velocities that will slowly reduce its crew to a slick film of goo, EC Comics proudly presents a new roster of callously cosmic tales positively oozing with pain, paranoia, and the pent-up regret of human ambition! To copilot this doomed survey of the stars, join writers Chris Condon, Melissa Flores, and Dave Wielgosz as they execute the logarithmic calculations that could save our explorers . . . only for the danger-defying artists Sami Kivelä, Claire Roe, and Riley Rossmo to bear witness to inescapable galactic calamity of their all-too-human hubris. Whoops!

Yes, human, it has been foretold in our data tablets: You will gaze in slackjawed wonder as Cruel Universe 2 #2 (of 12) crosses the vacuum of space to deliver new allotments of optical ingenuity in the form of comic book covers by Lee Bermejo, Tom Fowler, Albert Monteys, and Malachi Ward to begin a eons-long rein of EC Comics-inspired cosmic terror! You wanted to live life as a sentient being … Now pay the price in Cruel Universe 2 #2 (of 12) – on sale September 3rd!