The most promising factor about Netflix’s live-action Cowboy Bebop was the potential to translate the frantic, harried, but undeniably cool power of Shinichiro Watanabe’s authentic anime sequence into stay motion, depicting Spike, Faye, and Jet as actual and important folks. Though Netflix’s present was in the end a disappointment on that entrance, Titan is banking on its upcoming comics sequence from author Dan Watters and artist Lamar Mathurin to ship extra power to followers. From the seems of the brand new guide, Titan may simply could have performed it.

Titan’s new 4 difficulty comedian was impressed by the Netflix sequence, and affords a sequence of Spike-centric tales meant to offer you a way of what made him one of the crucial legendary bounty hunters within the galaxy. Though Titan’s tight-lipped about particulars of the plot, a sequence of recent inside pictures from the primary difficulty showcases Mathurin’s vibrant, kinetic method to illustrating Cowboy Bebop’s characters and the rustry, retrofuturistic world they stay in. Even only a handful of inside pictures and variant covers by Stanley ‘Artgerm’ Lau, Claudia Ianniciello, Afu Chan, Yishan Li, and Yoshi Yoshitani convey that Titan’s Cowboy Bebop may really pop in a means that Netflix’s sequence by no means managed to attain.

Cowboy Bebop is streaming now on Netflix, and the primary difficulty of Titan’s comedian hits shops on January 19.

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