Bulletproof Coffin Returns With First New Story Since 2021 In Giant! Cease To Exist – The Fandomentals
Oni Press has announced the return of indie comic Bulletproof Coffin with Giant! Cease To Exist – a brand-new, 72-page dose of surreal superheroes reuniting original series creators David Hine (Spider-Man: Noir) and Shaky Kane (Man from Maybe, The Beef) in comic shops and book stores everywhere in January 2027.
Continuing the semi-ongoing series of pseduo-psychedelic adventures that began with 2011’s self-titled Bulletproof Coffin series at Image Comics, Giant! Cease To Exist will mark the first new installment in Hine & Kane’s radical deconstruction of comics’ Silver Age sense of self since 2021… and mark the series’ official debut at Oni Press, where the publisher will begin collecting the complete Bulletproof Coffin saga to date beginning in 2028. Bulletproof Coffin: Giant! Cease To Exist will be the first new story in the Bulletproof Coffin world since two short stories in 2021’s Kane & Abel one-shot, as well as the first to be published by Oni Press.
“There I was enjoying my retirement from the increasingly fraught world of comic books, when my old friend and nemesis Shaky Kane called me up with an offer I couldn’t refuse,” said writer David Hine. “While the boundaries between reality and fiction are breaking down around us, Shaky figured the world needs another shot in the arm from The Bulletproof Coffin. So here it is, a last labour of love and hate from the Dynamic Duo, an antidote to New Fakery and proof that we ain’t dead yet.”
Inside the pages of the hyper-fictional Golden Nugget Comics imprint, a war is being waged with weapons of technological control by the Sons of Technarchy, a cabal of hyper-intelligent, all-powerful trillionaires who treat entire realities as disposable playthings. Standing in their way is an unlikely last line of defense: The brave but bizarre heroes known as Eye-We-I, Scarlet Spook, Ramona—Queen of the Stone Age, Red Wraith, Coffin Fly, the Shield of Justice, and more! But as the battle for existence rages, a mind-bending meta-twist unfolds—Hine and Kane themselves are drawn into the chaos, forced to confront their own demons as creators on the brink. Cosmic, chaotic, and wildly imaginative, Bulletproof Coffin is a genre-smashing spectacle that blurs the line between fiction and reality.
“Hine and Kane unlock Wishbone Studio for one more time, in this big-shot, one-shot of genre busting hallucinatory hoo-ha!” said artist Shaky Kane. “See the Golden Nugget Heroes as you’ve never, or ever wanted, to see them before! Join the improbably named Eye-We-I and the Scarlet Spook as they embark on a mission to restore order to a world spinning very much askew, lest they quite literally ‘cease to exist’! All depicted in vivid hi-octane Shaky-vision. Now this one you won’t want to miss!”
Hine and Kane first introduced readers to the “Ficto-Verse” in 2011’s The Bulletproof Coffin, the initial six-issue miniseries which followed comic book collector Steve Neyman as he uncovers a strange connection between real life and obscure, pulp-style vintage comics. The second story arc expanding the “Ficto-Verse” appeared in 2012’s The Bulletproof Coffin: Disinterred and was followed by the 2017 one-shot Bulletproof Coffin: The Thousand Yard Stare, a meta-sequel in which Hine and Kane first became characters in their own psychedelic universe.
Oni Press will release David Hine and Shaky Kane’s BULLETPROOF COFFIN: GIANT! CEASE TO EXIST on January 12, 2027 – featuring a standard cover by Kane, alongside limited-edition variants by Rául Allen (Dune) and Alex Diotto (A Ghost Arm Made of Angry Ghosts, Indigo Children).
BULLETPROOF COFFIN: GIANT! CEASE TO EXIST
Written by DAVE HINE
Artist and Cover by SHAKY KANE
On Sale: January 13th, 2027
$12.99 | 72 pgs. | FC
FOC: 12/21/2026
Images via Oni Press
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