On Wednesday, February 4th, Oni Press is releasing CRUEL UNIVERSE 2 #7 (of 12)!
In the next installment of EC Comics’ Eisner- and Ringo Award–nominated sensation: Stargazing writers Anthony Mauro (Salvation), Greg Pak (Planet Hulk), and Amy Roy (EC’s Epitaphs from the Abyss) are transmitting live from the scene of an interstellar disaster, as coldly calculating artists Kano (Action Comics), David Lapham (Stray Bullets), and Malachi Ward (Black Hammer Reborn) record the distant pinpricks of light from their exploding space ships as they reach Earth hundreds of years later. Who said SCIENCE can’t be entertaining?!
Here’s a look at this week’s new release from Oni Press on New Comic Book Day!
CRUEL UNIVERSE 2 #7 (of 12)
“Feature or Bug”
Written by Greg Pak
Art by David Lapham
Colors by Nick Filardi
“War Machines”
Written by Anthony Mauro
Art by Kano
“Artificial Insanity”
Written by Amy Roy
Art by Malachi Ward
Letters by Richard Starkings & Comicraft‘s Tyler Smith
Covers & Cover Artists:
Mike Huddleston (Cover A)
Tom Fowler w/ Chris O’Halloran (Cover B)
Albert Monteys (Cover C – 1:10 EC Homage Variant)
Tom Fowler (Cover D – 1:20 Black & White Artist Edition Variant)
Malachi Ward (Cover E – 1:50 Archive Edition Variant)
SRP: $4.99 | 32 PGS. | Full Color
ON SALE FEBRUARY 4, 2026
Warm flesh! Cold technology! As an astronaut, you have collided both together in an unwieldy alliance to survive the harsh vacuum of space. Now, as you wait to see whether all of your precious airlocks and heat shields will keep you from getting freeze-dried by the very cosmos you yearn to explore, never fear—there’s an all-new issue of CRUEL UNIVERSE to help you keep calm!
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Founded in 1997, Oni Press has a 25-year history as one of the industry’s most respected and acclaimed publishers of award-winning comic books and graphic novels with titles including Bryan Lee O’Malley’s Scott Pilgrim, K. O’Neill’s Tea Dragon Society, Cullen Bunn & Brian Hurtt’s The Sixth Gun, Maia Kobabe’s Gender Queer, Ezra Claytan Daniels’ Upgrade Soul, Brenna Thummler’s Sheets trilogy, and many hundreds more.
In 2019, Oni Press merged with Lion Forge Comics – the Eisner Award-winning independent comic book publisher founded by Academy Award-winning producer and entrepreneur David Steward II – to create one of the largest, independent libraries of comics content anywhere in media. The Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group now exists as a publishing subsidiary of Steward’s diversified global media company, Polarity.
The Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group publishes more than 60 original and licensed graphic novels annually, in addition to an extensive list of periodical comics.