In June, Benjamin #1 is hitting stores from Oni Press. But if you can’t wait that long? We’ve got an extended, 10-page preview of the new series, right here, right now… And a trailer you can watch, as well.
Don’t worry, there’s plenty more in the 30-page first issue of the new series. Written by Ben H. Winters with art by Leomacs, the book focuses on a sci-fi author named Benjamin J. Carp who died in the ’80s. The only thing, he wakes up in 2025, very much alive. So what’s going on? Who is he, really? And what brought him back to life, if he ever died at all?
We talked to Ben H. Winters a few weeks back on the Comic Book Club podcast, if you want more on the book. In the meantime, check out the trailer and extended preview below.
Benjamin #1 Preview
Check out 10 pages and four covers from the June 18, 2025 publishing issue here! Click the thumbnails for a larger version:
Benjamin #1 Official Synopsis:
In BENJAMIN, novelist and science-fiction icon Benjamin J. Carp was science fiction’s greatest mind. The author of 44 novels and hundreds of short stories — including the counterculture classic The Man They Forgot to Erase — died too young, in the year 1982, following decades of amphetamine abuse and Southern California excess.
And then: Benjamin J. Carp is back, alive in a burned-out motel on the fringes of Los Angeles in the year 2025, some four decades after his death. He shouldn’t exist. Is he a dream? A robot? A ghost? A clone? A simulation? In his own time, Carp pondered all of these scenarios through his fiction—and, now, as he treks from Studio City to Venice Beach and onward into the paranoid sprawl of 21st-century Los Angeles, he must investigate his greatest mystery yet: himself.
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