For the first time ever, Joe Casey and Ashley Wood’s subversive superhero series Automatic Kafka will be collected in its entirety in a trade paperback by Image Comics.
Originally released in 2002, the book follows, per Image, “the titular washed-up android superhero: once a celebrated member of the now defunct super-team The $tranger$, now spiraling through a hyper-violent, media-soaked America. Seeking relevance, Kafka finds himself a pawn in shadowy government schemes, cult celebrity culture, and weaponized nostalgia. His desperate quest for humanity drags him straight into the wormhole of mankind’s darkest vices… and confronts him with a jaw-dropping existential truth.”
“This is a series that meant a lot, both for my career and for me, personally,” said Casey via press release. “It was my biggest swing in comic books at that time, and laid the foundation for a lot of my work that came after. I’m psyched that Image Comics has stepped up to the plate to remind everyone just how gloriously deranged my creative partnership with Ash [Wood] really was. After all these years, maybe the world has finally caught up with Automatic Kafka.”
Added Wood, “We set out match Claremont and Byrne’s awesome X-Men run for it’s superhero greatness, did we make it? who knows? But it was great fun to work with Joe, to discover colour and now we finally get the trade!”
Automatic Kafka hits comic book stores on Wednesday, November 25 and book stores on Tuesday, December 22.
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