Last yr, political cartoonist Matt Bors—founding father of The Nib and creator of hundreds of comedian strips you’ve almost definitely seen online sooner or later throughout his 18-year profession—shocked the cartooning world by asserting his retirement from the realm of political comics. But now, Bors is able to return to the medium, for a wild new story in a really completely different format for him.

io9 can completely reveal that Bors’ subsequent mission, in collaboration with cartoonist Ben Clarkson (whose animation work has been seen on the likes of Adult Swim), is a brand new six-part comedian miniseries at Ahoy Comics, Justice Warriors.

Inspired by Clarkson’s own animated work on the idea, Justice Warriors—the primary month-to-month comedian collection both cartoonist has ever been concerned in—follows two law enforcement officials, Swamp Cop and Schitt, whose beat is contained in the protecting shell of Bubble City: the primary “perfect” metropolis on the planet. In a society the place everyone seems to be equal and equally affluent, and there’s no crime in any respect, you may suppose Swamp Cop and Schitt’s life as officers of the legislation is fairly quiet—if it weren’t for the Uninhabited Zone simply exterior of Bubble City, a slum city the place the precise bulk of a now-mutated humanity lives.

A satirical collection, Justice Warriors follows Swamp Cop and Schitt—Swamp Cop’s new associate, who replaces one killed by a Bubble City self-driving bus—as the previous slowly turns into traumatized by having witnessed the closest factor to a criminal offense Bubble City has. Swamp Cop finds himself going through two selections: arrest the bus that killed his outdated associate, or drag his new one out into the Uninhabited Zone to enact a really free sense of justice exterior of Bubble City’s partitions. With every thing from white collar crime to a cyberpunk gang utilizing social media to go to conflict towards Bubble City’s pop star mayor, suffice to say the duo’s policing profession is about to get busy.

“Since quitting political cartooning I’ve been pouring all my creative energy into this comic. It’s exactly the kind of over-the-top genre work I have wanted to make for years and we’re painting a lot of targets,” Bors informed io9 in an announcement supplied over e mail. “I am really lucky to collaborate with Ben Clarkson on this. You won’t believe this is his first comic book. He’s bringing this weird world to life with jaw-dropping detail, strange mutants, and a sprawling, otherworldly city that is like its own character in the series.”

“Justice Warriors is a violent mashup of The Wire, Robocop, and ‘The Itchy and Scratchy Show,’” Clarkson added in his personal e mail. “It loops through every level of its dysfunctional city, from the foot soldiers in the war on crime to the adrena-foam parties of the rich and augmented. Bubble City and the UZ is a rich, wild and fully realized vision of a world that could only come to life as a comic.”

Justice Warriors begins its six-issue run on June 8, 2022.

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