This weekend, the mainstream comic media hailed “the return of EC Comics” as they shill for a publisher that has been known to publish dubious material. For people who actually loved the quality storytelling of the 1950s and the best comics of the golden age, this is not welcome news, or at best, it’s something to ignore as it’s Oni Press using a marketing gimmick to capitalize off of a long-dead brand and transform it for “modern audiences”.
Media outlets from Heidi Macdonald’s ComicsBeat to the New York Times reported that at long last, EC Comics is returning as they gleefully reported on the press release put out by Oni Press publisher Hunter Gorinson, and already the push for bastardizing a long-beloved brand with a reboot is present, as the stories will “new stories will interpret the world of today.”
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This means instead of interesting conceptual stories for science fiction, fantasy, war, crime, and a myriad of genres, we will likely be getting cheap horror knockoffs that play on the nostalgia of the brand of Tales from the Crypt (the only EC Comic most people know the title of), but lean heavily into identity politics.
EC Comics was originally published by William M. Gaines, who died in 1992 and had ceased publication as far back as 1956. While the New York Times hailed its content as “subversive,” anyone reading today would view these stories as completely wholesome and innocuous, rated PG-13 at the worst of some of their horror stories.
Most of the content of EC Comics was overhyped by Fredric Wertham, who gave a stern warning as to what the culture could devolve into but really didn’t have a good argument in terms of EC Comics’ actual content. Oni Press’s revival, however, will likely be something that is subversive – not to current culture in the United States, but to what EC Comics once was.
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Oni Press is most famous for their child-grooming book “Gender Queer,” in which Hunter Gorinson has run a cynical marketing campaign based on the book being “banned” even though it’s readily available in every major commercial outlet. What he means by “banned” is that some schools have not included it in their libraries for kids.
This is because the book is pornographic, featuring children performing graphic sex acts on panel. Hunter Gorinson refused to comment last year at San Diego Comic-Con when confronted about why he’s advocating for placing sexually explicit content in front of children and advocating for the irreversible body mutilation of minors. The Gender Queer book from Oni Press is so graphic, the author admits it should not be in front of children, but that doesn’t stop this publisher.
Now, Hunter Gorinson and Oni Press are given charge of the EC Comics brand. They are making new titles Epitaphs from the Abyss and Cruel Universe, thankfully not bastardizing the original works like Weird Science or Frontline Combat directly.
Many of the modern writers who have turned comics into a woke disaster have been enlisted, including Jason Aaron who turned Thor into a woman, Matt Kindt who places panels into his work comparing President Trump to Hitler, Christopher Cantwell a current writer of Heather Antos’ Star Trek, and Stephanie Phillips who botched Harley Quinn.
With the same people from Marvel and DC Comics who have sunk the medium to new lows helming these projects, we can expect that this won’t be anywhere near the quality of what EC Comics made in the 1950s with greats like Wally Wood and Al Williamson, but it will be more of the same identity politics nonsense that fans hate to read.
Oni Press and Hunter Gorinson are publishing random horror anthologies and slapping an EC Comics logo on it. Don’t be fooled by the mainstream comic media.
What do you think of Gender Queer publisher Oni Press taking over the EC Comics brand? Leave a comment and let us know.
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How is Oni press still in business?
They were supposed to be sold off same with IDW but it never happens.
Issue #1: Gay people fight against thinly-disguised Donald Trump.
Issue #2 – Gay judges send thinly-disguised Donald Trump to prison for crimes against humanity. And overestimating the value of his house.
Issue #3 – Transgender people join gay people in an outer space battle with a warlord who is a thinly-disguised Donald Trump.
Issue #4 – Canceled
Gay trans colored furries of colored Muslim LGBT pedos woke sjw cancer were the friends we made along the way. Unfortunately, now you have monkey pox and super gay AIDS, but you owned the Chad Nazis who didn’t buy the comic. It’s all so painfully gay and retarded. Is Soros funding this directly when he isn’t funding corrupt district attorneys to destroy cities?
He definitely is. Worse or his son Alex
Only his son Alex would be incompetent enough to fund this.
George is many things evil, but he isn’t dumb, and he isn’t stupid all the time.
I Agree. Soros and all of his associates are Evil.
Here’s the bigger question, does this trademark purchase of EC mean that the older reprints that companies like Fantagraphics that used to do the EC reprints are going to stop them?
I have been collecting EC comics for 55 years and collected over 228 different original EC issues.
Purchased all of the Russ Cochran EC Library sets and comic reprint series.
I was excited to see the announcement that EC comics would live again with new issues with a new publisher. I hope the stories are in the same vein as the original stories “twist endings” and not just gore for the sake of shock.
However, upon reading a few articles including Fandom plus, I will not be supporting Oni Press by purchasing thier new line of EC Comics. Maybe they should call them AC/DC instead of EC Comics.