The Kickstarter Graphic Novel COSMIC DETECTIVE is Getting a Wider Release This December
Back in 2020, Jeff Lemire (Gideon Falls), Matt Kindt (BANG!), and David Ruben (Ether) launched a Kickstarter for their graphic novel Cosmic Detective. Now, Image Comics has announced that they’re partnering with these creatives to release a paperback edition of the graphic novel for more people to enjoy. In the graphic novel, readers will explore an epic sci-fi mystery following a detective looking into the murder of a god. Sounds pretty incredible already.
Cosmic Detective is an epic science fiction mystery that asks: when a God is murdered, who solves the crime? Enter our Detective. The murder of a god threatens to tear apart the very fabric of our reality. Only our detective stands in the way of utter destruction. But will the mystery he uncovers be worse than the disaster he’s trying to avert? And will his mind crack under the revelations he’s about to uncover before he can do anything about it?
Talking about the project, Lemire said:
Matt Kindt has been one of my closest friends since I’ve been in comics and we’ve collaborated before but never on a creator owned project where we could just go crazy and push each other in the most fun ways we could imagine. And there was only one artist who could somehow translate all our cosmic craziness, David Rubín. Cosmic Detective was a blast from start to finish and David made it one of the best looking books I’ve ever been a part of.
Kindt shared:
Jeff and I had a blast cooking up this story but there was a point in the process while working with David that it was clear that David was possessed by an other-worldly energy and we just got out of his way and tried not to get melted by his cast-off cosmic radiation.
Rubin added:
Working on Cosmic Detective was a real gift as an artist; that pages are full of surprises and energy. I hope that all that energy and love that we put into that book arrives at the hearth of the readers—this is a love letter to them, to the people who love comics, and for Jack Kirby too.
You can look forward to reading Cosmic Detective from your local comic shop on September 13 and your favorite bookstores and Indigo on September 19. Lemire and Kindt wrote the story with Ruben providing the art.
