Oni Press’ SDCC 2025 Recap with HIGH STRANGENESS, MURDER DRONES, OUTLAW SHOWDOWN & More!

By Carlos Morales

on August 2, 2025

After an amazing week at Comic-Con International 2025 in San Diego, CA, Oni Press, the multiple Eisner and Harvey Award-winning publisher of groundbreaking comics and graphic novels since 1997, made some huge announcements about upcoming coming titles (and one corresponding movie) to Oni’s star-studded line-up.

Missed out? Now you can relive them in all of four-color glory with this handy recap of some of SDCC’s biggest breaking news:

Glitch Productions’ MURDER DRONES Series Is Coming To Oni!

Oni Press and independent animation powerhouse Glitch Productions are proud to announce a new partnership to create comics and graphic novels based on the world of MURDER DRONES – Glitch’s wildly beloved adult animated series that has accrued more than 300 million views worldwide and inspired a legion of die-hard fans, eye-catching merchandise, and spin-off content in its wake.

The new collaboration will begin with an all-new graphic novel adapting MURDER DRONES’ haunting and hilarious 8-episode first season chronicling robot workers struggling to avoid obsoletion on a post-apocalyptic space colony – originally created by Liam Vickers and adapted by acclaimed writer Wyatt Kennedy (Nights, Marvel United) and exhilarating artist Jo Mi-Gyeong (Eve, Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance). Following on from Oni’s record-setting CULT OF THE LAMB and RICK AND MORTY pre-order campaigns on Kickstarter, the first MURDER DRONES graphic novel from Oni Press will debut for pre-order alongside with an array of deluxe, collectible, and exclusive items via a new Oni Premium Direct campaign on Kickstarter launching September 8th, 2025 and then be followed by standard, serialized comic book release to comic shops worldwide in February 2026.

Follow MURDER DRONES on Kickstarter now to be instantly notified when the Oni Premium Direct pre-order campaign goes live in early September.

Praise The Lamb Because Cult of the Lamb is Back at Oni!

Oni, In partnership with Massive Monster and Devolver Digital, are thrilled to announce the return of one of the global video game phenomenon that inspired one of the year’s biggest comics hits in the CULT OF THE LAMB: SCHISM SPECIAL #1 – coming to comic shops everywhere in October! In the cataclysmic fallout of CULT OF THE LAMB: THE FIRST VERSE… At long last… The record-setting comic book expansion of CULT OF THE LAMB returns in a powerful new, 48-page special – perfect for longtime acolytes and new readers alike – from acclaimed writer Alex Paknadel (Astonishing X-Men) and Eisner Award-nominated artist Troy Little (Rick and Morty vs. Dungeons & Dragons)!

In the aftermath of their first and closest follower’s sacrifice, Lamb continues the bloody quest to defeat the Bishops of the Old Faith, but they lack the conviction to tend their growing flock back at the cult. More potential followers are rescued by the day, but with no one to indoctrinate them, Lamb’s power stagnates and The One Who Waits becomes weary of his earthly vessel’s resistance to the full power and responsibility of the Red Crown. When famine strikes the cult, a challenger to Lamb’s mantle emerges, and a new struggle begins . . .

The Wild West Just Got More Wild With New EC Special!

Prior to San Diego Comic-Con 2025, Oni Press and William M. Gaines Agent, Inc. announced OUTLAW SHOWDOWN #1 – the first in a new series of unpredictable and unforgiving 56-page specials visiting EC’s trademark brand of hard-won vengeance upon storytelling genres from across the ages . . . from prehistoric survival to crime and punishment in epochs far beyond our own.

Debuting this October in our inaugural bonfire of bullets: As the sun settles high above this bone-dry stretch of mesa, wipe the blood from your boot heels and place your wagers as Oni Press and EC Comics raise their pistols to pump six cylinders of hot lead and cold hearts into OUTLAW SHOWDOWN #1 – EC’s first 56-page special celebrating revenge and retribution on the lawless frontiers of the Old West! Gunfighters, scoundrels, butchers, and bandits—they’ll all join us here to draw down on fate itself as coffin-bound creators John Arcudi (B.P.R.D.), Brian Azzarello (100 Bullets), David Lapham (Stray Bullets), Tony Moore (The Walking Dead), Ann Nocenti (Daredevil), and more rain hellfire and fury from the holsters on their hip.

Yuletide Is Coming To The Big Screen!

Oni Press and award-winning production company Valhalla Entertainment today announced that Valhalla has preemptively acquired Oni’s upcoming series YULETIDE – created by writer George Northy (EC’s Shiver SuspenStories) and artist Rachele Aragno (Mike Mignola’s Leonide the Vampire) – for development as a feature film in advance of the comic book series’ debut in October 2025.

Northy – a writer/producer best known for his work on Charmed for The CW and his recent comics debut as part of Oni’s best-selling EC Comics relaunch – will produce and script the adaptation. Gale Anne Hurd and Phillip Kobylanski will produce for Valhalla, alongside David Steward II, Hunter Gorinson, and Jeremy Colfer for Oni Press.

A fast-placed family adventure in the tradition of The Goonies, Goosebumps, and Hocus Pocus with a horrifying holiday twist, YULETIDE is the story of ancient creatures let loose upon an idyllic Northeastern town at the height of the gift-giving season – and the only three teenagers capable of holding them at bay with an ancient secret tied to the origins of the holiday itself:

Welcome to the small town of Christmas, Pennsylvania – the merriest place on Earth . . . or so they’d like everyone to think. When December rolls around, these folks pull out all the stops for America’s biggest, brightest holiday display . . . but not everyone in Christmas, PA, is so enthusiastic. Teenagers Jake, Abe, and Wyn are more interested in the dark side of the holiday that their parents like to pretend doesn’t exist . . . The ancient legends of mythic monsters and pagan pandemonium that are deeply tied to the festival’s long-forgotten origins. So when their hobby leads them to an abandoned wing of the local Christmas museum to investigate, they’ll discover an ancient relic that, when activated, will bring a furious procession of yuletide horrors long since banished from our plane – and with it, a darkness that has been waiting centuries for its chance to overtake the world.

Explore The Unknown With SpectreVision and Oni In HIGH STRANGENESS!

SpectreVision—the genre-distorting production company run by partners Elijah Wood, Daniel Noah, and Lawrence Inglee—and Oni Press are proud to reveal HIGH STRANGENESS – a startling new, five-part experiment in comic book storytelling inspired by first-hand accounts of real paranormal encounters within the dimly lit borderlands of human experience where overlapping phenomena like UFOs, hauntings, cryptid sightings, and inexplicable synchronicities seem to indicate a higher, unseen order of reality…

In the first double-sized, 40-page chapter debuting this October: Noah joins co-writer Chris Condon and artist Dave Chisholm for an unexpected encounter with the enigmatic Men in Black in 1967 as magazine writer Harry Kean is dispatched to rural Indiana to investigate the sudden disappearance of Becky Plume, a local teenager who stepped into the national spotlight with staggering photographic evidence of a recent UFO sighting. Frustrated to leave his developing stories in Chicago—and the wife he’s hoping to win back—Harry sets off to expose a hoax but instead finds himself in a labyrinth of high strangeness involving a missing girl, her boyfriend, a UFO, and some mysterious black-clad visitors circling at the perimeter of a mystery more vast than Harry could possibly imagine.