The Long Con

The Long Con Vol. 1

Graphic Novel

Nov 12, 2025

The world is over, but the con has just begun. Five years ago, a cataclysmic event obliterated everything within a fifty-mile radius of the Los Spinoza Convention Center -- right in the middle of Long Con, the world's biggest (and longest) pop culture convention. Underdog reporter Victor Lai barely escaped with his life, but his nerdy friend Dez Delaney -- publicist for an indie darling comics publisher -- wasn't so lucky. Now, Victor finds himself with the story of a lifetime -- that the con-goers not only survived inside the center's cavernous Cold War-era halls… they kept the convention going. It doesn't take long for Victor to get trapped inside, find Dez, and run afoul of a totalitarian sci-fi fandom ruled by a mysterious figure known as "the Special Guest." Breaking out is impossible, and resistance is futile -- but maybe, just maybe, Dez and Victor can recruit some unexpected allies from the warring factions of fans, pros, and D-list celebrities that still roam the show floor… Collects issues #1-#5 of the Oni Press series THE LONG CON.

The Long Con Vol. 2

Graphic Novel

Nov 12, 2025

The action and hilarity continue in the second volume of this comic convention apocalypse adventure series! Journalist Victor Lai and his comics publicist friend Dez Delaney have clawed, crawled, and occasionally golf-carted their way across a crowded post-apocalyptic convention floor in search of a way out. Along the way they've discovered a fledgling resistance movement of cosplaying superheroes led by Dez's former boss, Helvetica Caslon. She's got one last assignment: find the Special Guest and liberate the con. All that's in the way is a labyrinth of surreal panel rooms, literal personality cults, at least two warring fandom factions, and a totally biased gatekeeping system run by pedantic internet trolls. Can Dez and Victor convince the Special Guest to give up the utopia he's created? Or are the pros of this con on a crash course to doomsday?