Image Comics Announces ‘Weird Work’ From Shaky Kane And Jordan Thomas

Artist Shaky Kane (The Bulletproof Coffin) and writer Jordan Thomas (Frank at Home on the Farm) are teaming up for Weird Work, a new four-issue miniseries is set to launch this July from Image Comics. Described as like the “hard-boiled noir of LA Confidential mixes with the bright, alien-filled worlds of Futurama in this cannot-miss crime epic,” Weird Work #1 debuts this July from Image Comics.

“After months of gang shootings, Weird Work follows Detective Ovra Sawce who is paired with a new partner on a triple homicide. But what were a billionaire’s assistant, a hood-turned-cult leader, and Sawce’s former partner doing in that warehouse?”

Thomas said of working with Shaky Kane:

“I always knew I was writing this series for Shaky. So I wanted to play to his strengths by filling the world with a cast of wild, almost psychedelic, characters, whilst also delivering a tough, taut, crime tale in the spirit of comics I love like Brubaker & Phillips’ Criminal and Darwyn Cooke’s Parker adaptations.” 

Kane added:

“While tightly scripted, the Weird Work universe was broad enough to allow me to put a pure comic book, Shaky-spin on the visuals. A real fun book to draw. I just know that readers are going to share our enthusiasm for this off-kilter take on a hard-boiled future detective yarn.”

Weird Work #1 will be available on Wednesday, July 5th with a first look below: