AUTOMATIC KAFKA by Joe Casey and Ashley Wood came out in 2002 through Wildstorm’s Eye of the Storm imprint, and I only got a chance to go over it a few months ago—I wear my shame on my jugular and beg you to bite it.

Ever wonder what it’s like to be violently sexy and decadently toasted… but with powers?  AK addresses that curiosity and then some.  Somehow, someone somewhere thought it was time to indiscriminately expose the seedy underbelly of superhero post-celebrity culture and immerse Superman fans in it—think, if the Thundercats were real people, and were still around, but were living off their millions and living in sin somewhere… and you’ll probably come close to what this book is/was about.  This was Ennis and Robertson’s THE BOYS over five fucking years early.

Wildly experimental and dripping with contempt for the mainstream, the series was abruptly cancelled after nine issues.  Casey, who was ironically also writing Superman at the time, was showing people something awesome in one hand and slapping their mothers with the other.  Ash Wood’s art was being witty as only his art can.  For such a fresh series, it was criminally shortlived.  If you find it, read it… snatch it from a friend… read it in all its glorious strangeness… and if so inclined, tear out a page, roll it up, and then smoke it.

I promise it will be good for you.