On Wednesday, February 18th, Oni Press is releasing CATACOMB OF TORMENT #8!
Take sickly comfort in three bloody new tales of miserable merriment in the immortal EC Comics mold—hauled out from the depths of the Tormentor’s catacomb and fiendishly stitched together by caustic creators Rafael Scavone (Hit-Girl) & Rafael Albuquerque (American Vampire), Paul Tobin (The Witcher) & Arjuna Susini (Lamentation), and Robert Menegus (Necromancer Bill) & Valeria Burzo (High Strangeness)!
Here’s a look at this week’s new release from Oni Press on New Comic Book Day!
CATACOMB OF TORMENT #8 (EC Comics)
“The Miniature Painter”
Written by Paul Tobin
Art by Arjuna Susini
Colors by Michael Atiyeh
“The Wheel”
Written by Rafael Scavone
Art by Rafael Albuquerque
Colors by Marcelo Maiolo
“Tro11hunt3r”
Written by Robert Menegus
Art by Valeria Burzo
Colors by Iñaki Azpiazu
Letters by Comicraft‘s Tyler Smith & Jimmy Betancourt
Covers & Cover Artists:
Ariel Olivetti (Cover A)
Tom Fowler w/ Chris O’Halloran (Cover B)
Shawn McManus (Cover C – 1:10 EC Homage Variant)
Tom Fowler (Cover D – 1:20 Black & White Artist Edition Variant)
Patricia Martin (Cover E – 1:50 EC Archive Edition Variant)
SRP: $4.99 | 32 PGS. | Full Color
ON SALE FEBRUARY 18, 2026
Is winter’s woe upon thee? Come on into the CATACOMB OF TORMENT—where our horrific hostess, the Tormentor, always keeps the pyre roaring!
Winter may be coming to an end, but EC Comics NEVER DIE!

About Oni Press:
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.

