Oni Press has discovered success just lately with their reboot of the long-lasting EC Comics model. That line of comics is ready to develop this summer season with the debut of Blood Sort, a vampire-themed sequence that spins out of the pages of the anthology ebook Epitaphs From the Abyss.
IGN can solely debut the duvet artwork for Blood Sort #1. Test it out under:
Blood Sort is the primary in a deliberate sequence of EC Comics spinoffs launching in Summer season 2025. The ebook is written by Corinna Bechko (Merciless Universe, Inexperienced Lantern: Earth One) and illustrated by Andrea Sorrentino (Gideon Falls, Previous Man Logan), with colours by Dave Stewart (Hellboy). The primary situation options covers by Sorrentino, Miguel Mercado (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Albert Monteys (Universe!), and Naomi Franq (Black Hammer: Barbalien).
This is Oni’s official synopsis of the sequence:
WHEN YOU’RE A VAMPIRE, EVERYBODY SUCKS . . . SOONER OR LATER! Meet Ada, an immortal vampire whose misdeeds have landed her on the doorstep of an idyllic Caribbean resort. . . . An island paradise teeming with rich vacationers and superstitious locals—an ample meals provide for the thirsty vamp trying to get away from all of it! However as Ada stalks the boundaries of her new looking floor, she’ll quickly turn out to be embroiled in a lethal recreation of cat and mouse by moonlight . . . as an older, wiser, and fully completely different sort of predator reveals its personal carnal starvation for greed and energy. Who will survive when a brand-new sort of BLOOD TYPE declares battle on a crafty bloodsucker with nothing left to lose . . . and what shall be left of them?!
“Horror has simply all the time been the place I’ve felt most at residence, one thing Andrea and I’ve in frequent,” mentioned Bechko in Oni’s press launch. “With Blood Sort we have cooked up a depraved story that expands on a personality I fell in love with as quickly as I put her on the web page. Does she love me again? Not an opportunity, and that is her allure. She’s a vampire, however that does not imply she sparkles or is prepared for love. She is, nonetheless, able to take over a tropical paradise.”
“I believe horror is simply my factor,” mentioned Sorrentino. “I’ve labored on many alternative issues like superheroes and sci-fi in my profession, however when it is as much as horror, that is the place I really feel at residence …The chance to attach with the deepest fears of the reader by means of some imagery is a superb and satisfying problem. That is why after I’ve been requested if I used to be as much as collaborate with EC Comics (one of many biggest of the comedian horror producers) for 2 brief tales first after which the launch of this thrilling new restricted sequence, it has been an honor for me. I am unable to wait to hitch Corinna Bechko and my very long time collaborator Dave Stewart on colours for this new, superb mission. It may be loads of enjoyable and I am unable to watch for readers to place their eyes on what we’re doing right here!”
Blood Sort #1 shall be launched on June 18, 2025. Oni will even reprint the unique Blood Sort brief story within the upcoming Free Comedian E-book Day 2025 particular EC Presents: Blood Sort #0.
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