A surrealist superhero comic that was way ahead of its time is finally getting the full reissue treatment.

Automatic Kafka, the 2002 series by Joe Casey (Terminal, BEN 10) and Ashley Wood (Popbot, World War Robot), is coming back to shelves this November in a complete trade paperback from Image Comics. It’s the first time the entire series has been collected in one volume.

The book follows a washed-up android superhero named Kafka, formerly a member of the defunct super-team The $tranger$. Now he’s spiraling through a hyper-violent, media-obsessed America, desperate for relevance. He becomes a pawn in government conspiracies, cult celebrity culture, and weaponized nostalgia, all while chasing his own humanity straight into mankind’s darkest corners.

“This is a series that meant a lot, both for my career and for me, personally,” Casey says. “It was my biggest swing in comic books at that time, and laid the foundation for a lot of my work that came after.”

When it debuted, Automatic Kafka was one of the first superhero comics aimed at a mature audience. It’s remembered as one of the most conceptually complex, boundary-pushing books of its era. Think The Boys and Doom Patrol meets Mr. Robot.

Wood adds: “We set out match Claremont and Byrne’s awesome X-Men run for it’s superhero greatness, did we make it? who knows? But it was great fun to work with Joe.”

Automatic Kafka hits comic shops November 25 and bookstores December 22.

For indie creators and fans who love weird, character-driven comics that take risks, this is a chance to discover a cult classic that refused to play it safe.