Description: At the star-lined edges of infinity, EC Comics' Eisner Award-nominated science-fiction smash returns to draw more worlds into the maw of its gravitational vortex!
Whether future or past, Earth or a distant world, no man can outrun the infinite singularity within us all: FEAR! Join our next doomed expedition into the cold, unforgiving galaxies beyond our own as nihilistic navigators Cecil Castellucci (High Strangeness), Chris Condon (Ultimate Wolverine), Melissa Flores (Biker Mice from Mars), Sarah Gailey (Eat the Rich), Ryan Haddock (The Brothers Flick), J. Holtham (The Horizon Experiment), Rian Hughes (The Black Locomotive), Ann Nocenti (Daredevil), Greg Pak (Planet Hulk), and Dave Wielgosz (Batman: The Brave and the Bold) join sadistically stellar artists Charlie Adlard (The Walking Dead), Kano (Gotham Central), Sami Kivelä (Abbott), Brian Level (Poison Ivy), Andrea Mutti (Rebels), Anna Readman (2000 AD), Claire Roe (Dark Spaces: The Hollywood Special), Riley Rossmo (Batman: Black & White), and David Rubín (Black Hammer) to splice the immortal EC Comics genome into a new breed of parasitic extraterrestrial tales . . . with an endless appetite for pain! Beyond space, beyond oblivion . . . there is something vast, unsympathetic, and envious that yearns to consume us all in this CRUEL UNIVERSE! Let's make it work for it, shall we? Collects Cruel Universe Vol. 2 #1-4Brief description: Sarah Gailey is a Hugo Award-winning, internationally published writer of fiction and nonfiction. Their nonfiction has been published by Mashable and the Boston Globe, and they are a regular contributor for Tor.com and Barnes & Noble. Their most recent fiction credits include Fireside Fiction, Tor.com, and The Atlantic. Their debut novella, River of Teeth, was published in 2017 via Tor.com and was a 2018 Hugo and Nebula award finalist. Their adult novel debut, Magic For Liars, was published by Tor Books in June 2019. Their Young Adult novel debut, When We Were Magic, was published by Simon Pulse in Spring 2020. You can find links to their work at www.sarahgailey.com; find them on social media @gaileyfrey.