Oni Press has announced the return of the Bulletproof Coffin world with Bulletproof Coffin: Giant! Cease to Exist on January 13. Written by David Hine and with art and cover by Shaky Kane, the brand-new, 72-page “dose of surreal superheroes and addictive ideas” reunites the original series creators, continuing the pseudo-psychedelic adventures that began with 2011’s Bulletproof Coffin at Image. The publisher will collect the complete saga in 2028.
“There I was enjoying my retirement from the increasingly fraught world of comic books, when my old friend and nemesis Shaky Kane called me up with an offer I couldn’t refuse,” said Hine. “While the boundaries between reality and fiction are breaking down around us, Shaky figured the world needs another shot in the arm from The Bulletproof Coffin. So here it is, a last labour of love and hate from the Dynamic Duo, an antidote to New Fakery and proof that we ain’t dead yet.”
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Inside the pages of the hyper-fictional Golden Nugget Comics imprint, a war is being waged with weapons of technological control by the Sons of Technarchy, a cabal of hyper-intelligent, all-powerful trillionaires who treat entire realities as disposable playthings. Standing in their way is an unlikely last line of defense: The brave but bizarre heroes known as Eye-We-I, Scarlet Spook, Ramona—Queen of the Stone Age, Red Wraith, Coffin Fly, the Shield of Justice, and more! But as the battle for existence rages, a mind-bending meta-twist unfolds—Hine and Kane themselves are drawn into the chaos, forced to confront their own demons as creators on the brink. Cosmic, chaotic, and wildly imaginative, BULLETPROOF COFFIN: GIANT! is a genre-smashing spectacle that blurs the line between fiction and reality.
“Hine and Kane unlock Wishbone Studio for one more time, in this big-shot, one-shot of genre-busting hallucinatory hoo-ha!” said Shaky Kane. “See the Golden Nugget Heroes as you’ve never, or ever wanted, to see them before! Join the improbably named Eye-We-I and the Scarlet Spook as they embark on a mission to restore order to a world spinning very much askew, lest they quite literally ‘cease to exist’! All depicted in vivid hi-octane Shaky-vision. Now this one you won’t want to miss!”
The initial six-issue miniseries followed comic book collector Steve Neyman as he uncovers a strange connection between real life and obscure, pulp-style vintage comics. The second story arc expanding the “Ficto-Verse” appeared in 2012’s The Bulletproof Coffin: Disinterred, followed by the 2017 one-shot Bulletproof Coffin: The Thousand Yard Stare, a meta-sequel in which Hine and Kane first became characters in their own psychedelic universe. This book will be the first new story in the Bulletproof Coffin world since two short stories in 2021’s Kane & Abel one-shot, as well as the first to be published by Oni Press.
Ahead of the January release, check out an exclusive below!
