One by one the statues topple: Oni has just announced they will no longer be offering their comics via Diamond, and will be only available via Lunar.
Due to circumstances beyond our control, effective immediately and for the foreseeable future, new comic and graphic novels from Oni Press will only be offered via Lunar Distribution and will not be available via Diamond Comics Distribution.
This will hopefully be a temporary situation, and we will advise on any other upcoming changes as soon as we have any updates to share.
Next week’s FOC (on Monday, June 23rd) will be available solely through Lunar. This will include the following titles, including our newest EC Comics (and first ongoing!) horror title:
EC CATACOMB OF TORMENT #1 | ALL COVERS
BENJAMIN #1 (of 3) SECOND PRINTING
BENJAMIN #2 (of 3) | ALL COVERSWe acknowledge and apologize for any disruptions this may cause you or your customers. Thank you for continued support of Oni Press and the cause of independent comics.
Oni is just the latest publisher to pull their books from Diamond presumably due to widespread non-payment and ghosting.
Because you may tire of these endless announcements, here’s something more palatable: previews for EC CATACOMB OF TORMENT #1 and BENJAMIN #2.
EC Catacomb of Torment is what it sound like – updated horror int the EC mold, recrafted for 2025.
EC CATACOMB OF TORMENT #1
WRITTEN BY JOHN ARCUDI, MARGUERITE BENNETT & MATT KINDT
ART BY DAVID LAPHAM, DAN McDAID & PATRICK PIAZZALUNGA
COVER A BY JORGE FORNÉS
COVER B BY TOM FOWLER
FOIL VARIANT ($8.99) BY JORGE FORNÉS
EC HOMAGE VARIANT (1:10) BY JAY STEPHENS
B&W ARTIST EDITION VARIANT (1:20) BY TOM FOWLER
ARCHIVE EDITION (1:50) BY PATRICIA MARTÍN
HORROR HOST VARIANT (1:100) BY DUSTIN WEAVER
BLANK SKETCH VARIANT AVAILABLE
ON SALE JULY 16th, 2025 | $4.99 | 40 PAGES | FC
IOC: 5/22/2025
FOC: 6/23/2025
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And a story preview!
Benjamin, by Ben H. Winters and artist Leomacs, is a surreal SF inquiry into existence in the Pynchon/Dick vein, and it was loved by our own Beat reviewers:
“Dares readers to keep up…. Refreshing … [and] special…. We meet Benjamin Carp, a science fiction writer who wrote a ton of novels in the ’70s, died in the ’80s, and then wakes up with no memory of how or why he got to a dingy motel room in Los Angeles in 2025. Carp is brash, egotistical and honestly kind of awful to everyone around him. He’s a man out of time, and the tension between modern sensibilities and Carp’s lack of restraint is incredibly funny. The dialogue is snappy, with a real humor to it, and the set up is elevated by questions of consciousness. This comic is a mystery story where the question is Why am I here? How did this happen? Is Carp living a plot in one of his novels?”
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