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Cover A - Adam Pollina

January 2025 · 4.99 USD · 36 pages

On sale 2025-01-08

FOC 2026-07-27

Rated Teen 16+

UPC 64985600823700111

Synopsis

ALWAYS REMEMBER: HEAVY IS THE HEAD THAT WEARS THE CROWN... UNLESS THE KING IS ABOUT TO GET IT LOPPED OFF! Welcome, traveler... back to the blood-drenched ramparts of ye olde EC Comics that yearn for MORE tales of sadistic sorcery and malevolent magic! Yes, draw your sword and start swinging, because CRUEL KINGDOM lives again with an ALL-NEW volume of fatal fantasy, told in the immortal EC Comics manner by a magnificently malicious cast of all-star storytellers! In this CRUEL KINGDOM, there is no "happily ever after"... and sometimes the witch hunter becomes the hunter in the end, heh heh! Come, warm yourself by the pyre as vengeance-fueled writers David M. Booher (Canto), Matt Bors (The Toxic Avenger), and Jude Ellison S. Doyle (Dead Teenagers) turn the screws in tandem with axe-wielding artists Ryan Kelly (Lucifer), Lukas Ketner (Count Crowley), and David Lapham (Stray Bullets) to extract answers to the burning question of every knight and squire: Must every wizard’s tower also have an executioner’s dungeon buried down below? At EC Comics, we say, "YES, OF COURSE! NOW PROCEED WITH THE BEHEADING, YOU FOOL!"

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Credits

Script: Jude Ellison S. Doyle, Matt Bors, Greg Pak, Al Ewing, Chris Condon, Ben H. Winters
Pencils: Adam Pollina, Rian Hughes, Leomacs, Kano, Charlie Adlard, Andrea Mutti
Inks: Adam Pollina, Rian Hughes, Leomacs, Kano, Charlie Adlard, Andrea Mutti
Colours: Adam Pollina, Jordie Bellaire, Nick Filardi, Rian Hughes, Iñaki Azpiazu, Kano, Charlie Adlard, Michael Atiyeh
Letters: Richard Starkings, Tyler Smith
Cover: Dave McCaig, Mark Buckingham, Michelle Madsen, Rian Hughes, Shawn McManus, Yanick Paquette
Design: Rian Hughes
Editor: Sierra Hahn, Matt Dryer, Allyson Gronowitz
Assistant editor: Jung Hu Lee
Associate editor: Jung Hu Lee
Group editor: Sierra Hahn
Design: Rian Hughes
Logo design: Rian Hughes
Production: Angie Knowles, Carey Soucy

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