Cult of the Lamb Returns to Comics in New 'Schism Special' | Comic-Con 2025

The fashionable Cult of the Lamb franchise precocious made the leap to comics successful the graphic caller Cult of the Lab: The First Verse. Ahead of San Diego Comic-Con 2025, IGN tin exclusively uncover the adjacent section successful the Cult of the Lamb Saga, Cult of the Lamb: Schism Special #1.

Cult of the Lamb: Schism Special #1 is simply a one-shot, 48-page comic that reunites the originative squad from The First Verse, including writer Alex Paknadel (Red Goblin) and creator Troy Little (Rick and Morty vs. Cthulu). This caller contented is again a collaboration betwixt comic publication steadfast Oni Press, crippled steadfast Devolver Digital, and improvement workplace Massive Monster.

Art by Peach Momoko. (Image Credit: Oni Press)

Here's Oni's authoritative statement of the book:

In the aftermath of their archetypal and closest follower’s sacrifice, Lamb continues the bloody quest to decision the Bishops of the Old Faith, but they deficiency the condemnation to thin their increasing flock backmost astatine the cult. More imaginable followers are rescued by the day, but with nary 1 to indoctrinate them, Lamb’s powerfulness stagnates and The One Who Waits becomes weary of his earthly vessel’s absorption to the afloat powerfulness and work of the Red Crown. When famine strikes the cult, a challenger to Lamb’s mantle emerges, and a caller conflict begins...

"Let maine conscionable wide the aerial here: I’m not a gamer. At least, I thought I wasn’t until this bonzer communicative landed successful my lap," Paknadel told IGN astir The First Verse. "A cleanable guiltless – a sacrificial lamb - is fixed the means to avenge themselves against the tyrannical strategy that threw them nether the autobus for a paltry superstition. It’s a classical revenge fantasy, but it besides contains the seeds of genuinely epic tragedy.Get acceptable to acquisition the events of the crippled from the Lamb’s position – their autumn and emergence and autumn - and spot wherefore the calamity of The One Who Waits’ anointed avenger lone began with their death."

Art by Troy Little. (Image Credit: Oni Press)

Cult of the Lamb: Schism Special #1 is priced astatine $7.99 and volition beryllium released connected October 29, 2025. Yopu tin besides bid Cult of the Lamb: The First Verse connected Amazon.

IGN's Tom Marks gave Cult of the Lamb an 8 retired of 10, writing, "Cult of the Lamb is arsenic adorable arsenic it is unsettling, an eclectic premix of genres and themes that travel unneurotic highly well. Its combat is immensely satisfying adjacent if its abbreviated runs and the comparative deficiency of assortment betwixt them doesn’t springiness it the lasting entreaty of different enactment roguelikes, and gathering my precise ain cult basal and tending to a flock of followers was conscionable arsenic amusive arsenic immoderate plaything of the axe. I whitethorn not revisit it present that the credits person rolled, but Cult of the Lamb is thing altogether antithetic that I had an implicit blast playing."

Cult of the Lamb was precocious updated successful August 2024 with the merchandise of the DLC enlargement Unholy Alliance.

Jesse is simply a mild-mannered unit writer for IGN. Allow him to lend a machete to your intelligence thicket by following @jschedeen connected BlueSky.