Daniel Warren Johnson, best known for his award-winning wrestling miniseries Do A Powerbomb (Image) and writing the acclaimed Skybound Transformers reboot, is bringing a new edition of his webcomic Space-Mullet to print from Image in July 2024. The paperback (ISBN: 9781534327252) will hit bookstores July 9 and comic shops July 10.
The sci-fi webcomic about a washed up ex-Marine space trucker and his alien partner trying to do good in the galaxy ran from 2012 to 2017 on Johnson’s own dedicated website, as a means for him to show his chops and cut his teeth with comics storytelling. A now-out-of-print collection of Space-Mullet had previously been released from Dark Horse in 2016. The 2024 edition promises remastered lettering and an “all-new, never-before-printed chapter.”
According to the Image press release:
“Hot off the 2023 Eisner Award winning Do a Powerbomb and skyrocketing to fame with his fresh spin on the Transformers comic book series, Daniel Warren Johnson has another balls-to-the-wall adventure for fans in a new print collected edition of his long-running webcomic, Space-Mullet. This epic, intergalactic tale will be re-introduced to fans, feature remastered lettering, and include an all-new, never-before-printed chapter. It will hit shelves in July 2024 from Image Comics.
“Johnson’s growing oeuvre has positioned him as the “It” writer of the moment in comics. The critically-acclaimed Do a Powerbomb snagged him an Eisner Award in the Best Teen Publication category—edging out the likes of such YA juggernauts as Alice Oseman’s Heartstopper, Vol. 4—and cast him as an industry high-flyer. In the follow-up to bestselling Robert Kirkman and Lorenzo de Felici’s Void Rivals barnburner, Johnson’s Transformers #1 issue premier laid waste to recent DC and Marvel launches with a chart-topping 150K copy instant sell-out that left a bevy of reprints in its wake.
“Now Johnson’s Space-Mullet will provide fans with a peek at the comic that allowed him to cut his teeth on sequential storytelling and helped start it all.”
Looking back at the series, Johnson said:
“When I started Space-Mullet, I had just quit my steady teaching job, had no money, and DEFINITELY no work in the comics industry. This book was me throwing everything I had at trying to prove to the comics world I could make something special. The pages are humble, but are a huge foundation for what made me the artist I am now. See proto-DWJ come to life in these pages!!!”
Here is a gallery of some sample pages from the book.
