What if the world’s richest people were forced to share their wealth or fight in mortal combat to keep it for themselves? Patrick Horvath (Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees) will explore that concept in Free for All #1, a 56-page one-shot from Oni Press.

Free for All is set in the future when the World Finance League was created to benefit all people. Billionaires and trillionaires are randomly selected and given a choice: donate half of their assets to help others or defend their wealth in combat. The current champion is real estate mogul Ted Brooks who has 22 victories in combat. His next fight to the death is with his ex-wife Luella Dominguez, who has been training and waiting to face him. Does she have the skills to defeat the man who has no limits to what he’ll do to keep his fortune?

“I always felt like this story had a fairly universal appeal, and I’m excited for Oni Press to bring this book to a wide audience,” Horvath said. “I was working through a lot of frustrations tied to income inequality at the time I made the comic, and it seems like all of it has only gotten worse. Now, maybe more than ever, it feels like the appropriate time for a satire where we watch billionaires fight to the death to keep all of their money.”

The one-shot is offered with a line of variant covers by Horvath, Juni Ba (The Boy Wonder), Noah Bailey (Station Grand), Matt Kindt (Mind MGMT), and Matt Lesniewski (Faceless and the Family).

“Free for All is an incredibly prescient story for an increasingly tumultuous world, and our amazing cover artists – whose work you can see here! – did a wonderful job of capturing the bloody binge culture in full technicolor,” editor Megan Brown said. “Spectacle, excess, and more await readers in the pages of Patrick Horvath’s wonderfully macabre – and timely – tale.”

Free for All #1 will arrive in comic shops in March 2025.