Vampire tale Blood Type will be the first serialized comic from Oni Press’s EC Comics horror imprint

Next year’s Free Comic Book Day is shaping up to be a big one, with publishers already starting to reveal some of the titles they’ll have on offer to lure readers into participating comic stores. Now Oni Press has announced EC Comics Presents Blood Type #0 – a special preview edition of the first serialized story to be published by the revived horror imprint.

‘Blood Type’ was a short story originally published in September’s Epitaphs from the Abyss #3. Written by Corinna Bechko and illustrated by Jonathan Case, the tale followed a vampire as she struggled to survive – and evade capture – at sea. The story will be reprinted in the FCBD issue as a prelude to the character (whose actual name is yet to be revealed) returning in a Blood Type solo series in 2025.

“Very early on in the planning stages of what would become our hugely successful resurgence of the EC Comics line at Oni Press, we challenged ourselves with a series of provocative questions,” said Oni Press president and publisher Hunter Gorinsion in a statement about the new series. “What kinds of stories would EC be telling today? What new genres would they have pioneered across the decades? And how would EC’s disruptive energy shatter and reshape the conventions of comics storytelling in the modern day? Blood Type is our answer to many of those questions – and a true first for the EC history as a tried-and-true anthology tale from the pages of Epitaphs From the Abyss expands outward in new and unexpected ways. We’re not saying any more until 2025 – some secrets are worth waiting for!”