EC Epitaphs from the Abyss #7

by Matthew Rosenberg, Tyler Crook (artist), Dustin Weaver (artist)

SOMETIMES . . . NIGHTMARES DO COME TRUE! IN THE NEW YEAR, EC COMICS DARES YOU LOOK EVEN DEEPER INTO THE UNEXPLORED RECESSES OF YOUR IMAGINATION AS THE TOP-SELLING HORROR SERIES OF 2024 ENTERS ITS UNRELENTING SECOND ACT! This Our beloved hosts—the Grave-Digger, the Tormentor, and the Grim Inquisitor—usher you forth into three velvet-lined tales of darkness and deceit . . . and then seal you inside! Relax and embrace the decomposition yet to come as storytellers and fellow victims Cullen Bunn (The Sixth Gun), Chris Condon (Night People), and Jordan Thomas(Skin Police, The Man From Maybe) gulp their last remaining breaths alongside grisly artists Andrea Sorrentino (Gideon Falls), Valeria Burza (Blackbirds), and Andrea Mutti (Arkham Horror), and more! STAY CALM, THAT RELENTLESS BANGING WILL ONLY WEAR YOU OUT MORE QUICKLY!

Genres: Comics, Horror

Kindle Edition

Published January 22, 2025

About the author

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"I haven’t always been a writer. My parents are writers and my brother is a writer, and I resisted that as long as I could. When I was 17, I hopped in a band’s van and I went on tour for a summer, and that was it, that was what I wanted to do. I ran a record label for 10 years, a small indie punk label. I did everything in music that you can do that doesn’t involve having musical ability. Eventually the music business, probably in a similar way to comics, will just start to break your heart, and I realized one day that I kind of hated music. I was resigned to thinking, if I’m going to be involved in music forever, I’m going to hate it for the rest of my life. I just stopped. I stopped having any sort of business with music, any involvement.

I read comics my whole life, so I just naturally fell back into another medium that is marginalized and hard to make a living in."

Source: http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles...

Writer of comics WE CAN NEVER GO HOME, SECRET WARS JOURNAL, OUR WORK FILLS THE PEWS, 12 REASONS TO DIE, & MENU.

Reviews

[Jennifer · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5 ⭐️

I liked the unique color palette of prohibition it was dark and panel layout was cool… the art really made a mediocre story pop and work better than it might have. I also enjoyed how this dark color palette continues into A splice of the action (my favorite of the three offerings) The color changes only when we get to Dot’s revenge panels the last panel of this story is SO old school EC, I really enjoyed it. The last story was just so/so to me… pretty typical, readable but nothing noteworthy. OK that was 7! With five more promised.

[Mike Sullivan · Rating 2 out of 5]

The first and second stories were pretty meh, but the art on the first story, “Prohibition” was pretty cool. I liked the concept of that one too.

I really didn’t enjoy story #2.

[Kevin Halter · Rating 4 out of 5]

Best issue to date.

This is one of the best issues to date with consistent storytelling and great art.
It feels like this book is getting its feet under it and ready to run.
Ready for the next issue.

[Freddie🏳️‍⚧️🐀 · Rating 2 out of 5]

I've only read one other issue from this lineup but I'm subscribed so idk if this is pare for the course but this issue was a doozy.
First story... okay? I don't know it was trying to do some ooky spooky twilight zoney meets vampires romp but idk just didn't really do it for me. Eerie ending ig but kinda meh.
Second story awful. It takes place in 50's Hollywood and I can just tell no one working on it, both artist and writer don't really know 50's Hollywood. For example in the first page, the credits show, and the lead finds out she wasn't given a writing credit. Which confused me because usually credits are in the beginning for films of that era. VERY nitpicky but I absoultey love 50's films so I couldn't hold back. It seems like they put this one in the 50's to do some gender commentary. I mean... sexism still exists in the work place today. Could have made it contemporary? But ig since film reels play a big part in the comic have to go oldie. Idk, the big shocker was kinda like oh okay. It should be more of a shocker but like girl why did u do that all that.
Third story is probably the best but that's not saying much. Probably has the best execution. Story about a pyscho murder guy who gets his comeuppance. Really unsettling and freaky story. But still eh.
Idk I'm kinda stuck reading this but I've had two issues that I didn't like. Sigh.

[Nick LeBlanc · Rating 3 out of 5]

BLACK GOLD was the best of the bunch, it had some legs to it and could be worthy of a full length adaptation, lousy title though. Surely there was a pun or something in there. PROHIBITION had cool art, though I hated the Bloody Daniel’s on the giant splash page, there had to have been something better than that. SPLICE was the weakest, mostly due to the ending. She should have re edited the film and put some nasty stuff in there, though the entrails were cool looking, it felt tossed off. Though these issues always have some
problems, I really do look forward to the monthly release of these books.

Read as a single issue.

[Alex Fyffe · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5

[Wm · Rating 4 out of 5]

Bunn and Sorrentino's Prohibition is a high mark of the series.

[Christian · Rating 1 out of 5]

Really uninspired crap

[Cyndi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Particularly fond of prohibition, an old as time vampire trope with a fresh twist