AUTOMATIC KAFKA

Joe Casey and Ashley Wood's surreal science fiction series returns to print for the first time in two decades, collected here in its entirety with additional material. Automatic Kafka is a washed-up android superhero, once a celebrated member of the defunct super-team The $tranger$, now drifting through a hyper-violent, media-saturated America in search of relevance. His attempted comeback becomes a caustic examination of fame, identity and the entertainment industry that manufactures both. Wood's painterly, collage-like artwork gives the story a nightmarish beauty that matches Casey's fractured storytelling. A cult favourite that helped define Image Comics' experimental output of the early 2000s.