Automatic Kafka
DC/Wildstorm.
Automatic Kafka (9-issue series; w Joe Casey; a Ashley Wood). [From
DC Comics: From the strange and powerful minds of Joe Casey (WILDCATS,
ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN) and Ashley Wood (Hellspawn, Popbot) comes AUTOMATIC
KAFKA, a super-hero series unlike any you’ve seen before. The $tranger$
(Automatic Kafka, Saint Nick, The Constitution, The Warning, Spastic Ben)
were huge in the '80s—the biggest super-hero team ever. They were mass-marketed
as hard as the latest diet soda or designer sportswear—the Beatles
as superheroes. They were the biggest and the best, a rock super-band's
promoter's dream-team with the groupies to match. But then the dream was
over. The end came, and they went their separate ways...leaving their tin-plated
uber-member alone, adrift, lost. Automatic Kafka: Super-hero? Game-show
host? Model? Pitchman? Or android junkie? And what of the $tranger$? Where
are they now? Which one is being sought for questioning by the National
Park Service? Which one is lost in the jungle? Which one is conducting a
singular war on terrorism? Only some of these questions are answered in
the debut issue of AUTOMATIC KAFKA, the first original concept released
through WildStorm Productions' mature-readers label: “Eye of the Storm.”
Casey's twisted yet captivating scripts, coupled with the just-plain-beautiful,
multimedia artwork of Wood, promise to make this perhaps the strangest series
ever published by WildStorm. Not for the weak-willed, AUTOMATIC KAFKA is
a brave new look at super-heroes. You only think you know what you’re
really in for…] 