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HOLY SHIT! Oni Press have unveiled a slate of variant covers that comic book fans will absolute kill to own! Here's what we know about FREE FOR ALL.
Free For All #1, a gory and gripping 56-page one-shot graphic novella by Eisner nominated cartoonist Patrick Horvath (Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees), is dropping in comic book shops worldwide in March 2025. And it featuring a nonstop star-studded line-up of covers from the most world's most celebrated cartoonists including Ringo nominated Juni Ba (The Boy Wonder, Monkey Meat), Noah Bailey (Station Grand, Double Walker), Eisner nominated Patrick Horvath, multiple Eisner nominated Matt Kindt (Mind MGMT, Dept. H) and Eisner winner Matt Lesniewski (Faceless And The Family, The Freak).
Horvath's work in BENEATH THE TREES WHERE NOBODY SEES earned a 2024 Eisner Award nomination for “Best New Series” and made the comic book industry go "ohhh shit!" And now, his brand-new series, Free For All, is bound to do the same. With issue #1 introducing a brave new world where greed and glory have become inextricably linked in a spectacularly brutal game that has enraptured millions around the globe…
Here's what Patrick Horvath had to say:
“I always felt like this story had a fairly universal appeal, and I’m excited for Oni Press to bring this book to a wide audience. I was working through a lot of frustrations tied to income inequality at the time I made the comic, and it seems like all of it has only gotten worse. Now, maybe more than ever, it feels like the appropriate time for a satire where we watch billionaires fight to the death to keep all of their money.”
Editor Megan Brown added:
“FREE FOR ALL is an incredibly prescient story for an increasingly tumultuous world, and our amazing cover artists—whose work you can see here!—did a wonderful job of capturing the bloody binge culture in full technicolor. Spectacle, excess, and more await readers in the pages of Patrick Horvath’s wonderfully macabre—and timely—tale.”
Oni Press's announcement went on to reveal the synopsis of Free For All #1:
In the future, the World Finance League exists to benefit all, randomly choosing those from among the billionaires and trillionaires of the world and presenting them with a choice: either donate half of their assets to the common good — or defend them in ritual combat.
Reigning champion and real estate magnate Ted Brooks has 22 victories under his belt — defending the wealth he schemed and stabbed to get — when he is forced to face his ex-wife, Luella Dominguez, in a fight to the death. Luella has been training, waiting for this moment. But will she have what it takes to defeat the man who would do anything — absolutely anything — to keep his fortune?
This giant-sized, one-shot spectacle of commerce and carnage is coming this March from Eisner Award-nominated cartoonist Patrick Horvath. In which commerce, bankruptcy, horror and death collide in this giant-sized spectacle of capitalism meets carnage.
Free For All #1 will be available in-store in March 2025.
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