Debuting in June, the comic sees the world’s most unlikable action star being found dead, and his six former TV sidekicks taking it on themselves to find out who killed him. “But how can you catch a murderer when almost everyone hated the victim? Time for the sidekicks to become the stars of this show… that is, if any can survive the STUNTMAN WAR!”
Starks said in the press release, “Chris came to me and suggested the remarkable title, which we crafted into the tale of six former kid TV sidekicks trying to solve the murder of their awful human TV mentor. Sort of like Knives Out meets Once Upon A Time In Hollywood? If there are two things I love to write, it’s charming dummies and action, and this book is full of both plus rising stakes, escalating nonsense and a lot of fun. Comics should be fun, so we made a fun one!”
Schweizer said, “We were keen to take an action story and structure it around a mystery. We both like mystery comedies like Monk, Knives Out, and Psych, and we wanted to combine those genres in a way that was fun for us and fresh for the reader.”
“The Six Sidekicks of Trigger Keaton” #1 will be released on June 9, with a Cover A by Schweizer, and a Cover B by Starks’s “Assassin Nation” co-creator Erica Henderson. Head to Image in the meantime for a four-page preview.
