Billionaires defend their riches in ritual fight within the graphic novel.

Oni Press has introduced plans to publish Free For All, a graphic novel written and drawn by acclaimed creator Patrick Horvath, subsequent 12 months. Horvath is the creator of Beneath the Bushes The place No person Sees, the wonderful “cozy horror” miniseries revealed by IDW, and beforehand funded Free For All on Zoop.

Free For All appears to have dropped the “cozy” and changed it with “brutal greed.” It’s set in a world the place the world’s richest persons are pressured to both donate cash to charity or face off in ritual fight to defend their hundreds of thousands.

“I’m thrilled that Free For All has discovered a house with Oni Press,” mentioned Horvath. “The thought for it got here from an immense frustration with the state of society nearly a decade in the past, and with the problems of the world as they stand now, it’s solely change into extra related. I’m so glad this guide has an opportunity now to succeed in a large viewers.”

Oni shared extra particulars on what to anticipate from the story:

Sooner or later, the World Finance League exists to learn all, randomly selecting these from among the many billionaires and trillionaires of the world and presenting them with a selection: both donate half of their belongings to the frequent good — or defend them in ritual fight. 

Reigning champion and actual property magnate Ted Brooks has 22 victories below his belt — defending the wealth he schemed and stabbed to get — when he’s pressured to face his ex-wife, Luella Dominguez, in a combat to the demise. Luella has been coaching, ready for this second. However will she have what it takes to defeat the person who would do something — completely something — to maintain his fortune?

The graphic novel will arrive in March, and is one in every of 5 “genre-colliding tasks from high-profile abilities” Oni has deliberate for early subsequent 12 months.