Cecil

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) #1–4.

Part of Gerard Way's new imprint, DC's Young Animal! Far away on the planet Meta, Loma's going nowhere fast. She's dropped out of school, dumped her boyfriend and is bored out of her mind. She longs to feel things. That's where her idol, the lunatic poet Rac Shade, and his infamous madness coat come in. Loma steals the garment and makes a break across galaxies to take up residence in a new body: Earth girl Megan Boyer. Surely everything will be better on this passionate, primitive planet with a dash of madness on her side and this human girl's easy life. Only now that she's here, Loma discovers being a teenaged Earth girl comes with its own challenges and Earth may not be everything she thought it'd be. Megan Boyer was a bully who everyone was glad was almost dead, and now Loma has to survive high school and navigate the consequences of the life she didn't live with the ever-growing and uncontrollable madness at her side. Not to mention that there are people back on her homeworld who might just want Shade's coat back. Written by Cecil Castellucci (The Plain Janes), drawn by Marley Zarcone (EFFIGY) and overseen by Gerard Way, SHADE, THE CHANGING GIRL starts a whole new chapter in the story of one of comics' most unique series. Collects SHADE, THE CHANGING GIRL #1-6. SHADE, THE CHANGING GIRL is a part of DC's Young Animal--a four-book grassroots mature-reader imprint, creatively spearheaded by Gerard Way, bridging the gap between the DC Universe and Vertigo, and focusing on the juxtaposition between visual and thematic storytelling.