On Wednesday, June 3rd, Oni Press is releasing CRUEL UNIVERSE 2 #11 (of 12)!
Cling to the primal emptiness of the cosmic void as EC purveyors of pain Julio Anta (Frontera), Kishore Mohan (The Picture of Everything Else), Joshua Spiller (Dark Horses), and more hurtle us toward a singularity of savagery. And yet, as always, the heart of darkness within humanity promises to be more tragically terrifying than even the coldest, darkest, dying star in the galaxy . . . so don’t miss out on the penultimate installment of the newest volume of Oni’s Eisner Award–nominated anthology of technological torment!
Here’s a look at this week’s new release
from Oni Press on New Comic Book Day!
CRUEL UNIVERSE 2 #11 (of 12)
“One of the Good Ones”
Written by Julio Anta
Art by Craig A. Taillefer
Colors by Valentina Pinto
“The Wages of War”
Written by Joshua Spiller
Art by Kishore Mohan
Colors by Francesco Segala
Color Flats by Sabrina Del Grosso
“AI Adoption”
Written by Maria Ingrande Mora
Art by Fabiana Mascolo
Letters by Richard Starkings & Comicraft‘s Tyler Smith
Covers & Cover Artists:
Miguel Mercado (Cover A)
Oliver Dominguez (Cover B)
Albert Monteys (Cover C – 1:10 EC Homage Variant)
Oliver Dominguez (Cover D – 1:20 B&W Artist Edition Variant)
Malachi Ward (Cover E – 1:50 Archive Edition)
SRP: $4.99 | 32 PGS. | FULL COLOR
On Sale June 3, 2026
Dreading the total collapse of human society? Or perhaps the despotic rule of our unsympathetic android overlords? Don’t bother worrying because the apocalypse is already upon us in this CRUEL UNIVERSE!
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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.