BULLETPROOF COFFIN: GIANT! CEASE TO EXIST, a new comic by David Hine and Shaky Kane, will be released by Oni Press in January 2027, continuing their surreal and genre-bending series.

The press release follows:

Media Release – READER, PREPARE TO… CEASE TO EXIST! Oni Press – the multiple Eisner and Harvey Award-winning publisher of groundbreaking comics and graphic novels since 1997 – is proud to announce the long-awaited return of comics’ most insidiously enthralling and potently psycho-active indie comics masterwork in BULLETPROOF COFFIN: GIANT! CEASE TO EXIST – a brand-new, 72-page dose of surreal superheroes and addictive ideas reuniting original series creators David Hine (co-creator of 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 landmark, self-titled Bullerproof 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. David Hine & Shaky Kane bring BULLETPROOF COFFIN: GIANT! CEASE TO EXIST to life

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“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: GIANT! 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. 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.

Praise for Hine & Kane’s BULLETPROOF COFFIN saga:

“ A fever-dream that’s also a love letter to what’s true and magic in comics. Don’t miss it.”
– JoBlo.com

“First comic in forever that says UP YOUR GODDAMN GAME.”
– Matt Fraction, Eisner Award-winning writer of BATMAN

“[Like] Canterbury Tales for serial killers.”
– Nerdist

“Really fun and original.”
– Robert Kirkman, Eisner Award-winning writer of INVINCIBLE UNIVERSE: BATTLE BEAST

“One of the craziest, most meta series [ever]... As over-the-top insane and deconstructive as it's ever been.”
– MTV Geek

“You like comics, you should be all over it.”
– Kieron Gillen, Eisner Award-winning writer of DIE

“Like David Lynch had decided to rewrite MARVELS…”
–Techland

“Insane, unadulterated genius…”
– Starburst

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).

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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

About David Hine

David Hine has written many classic comics, including Batman and Will Eisner’s The Spirit for DC Comics, and District X, Civil War X-Men, and Daredevil: Redemption for Marvel Comics, where he also co-created Spider-Man Noir. At Image comics, Hine scripted long runs of Todd McFarlane’s Spawn and Mark Silvestri’s The Darkness, and has been the writing partner of Brian Haberlin on several series, including Sonata, The Marked, and Lighthouse. Among his creator-owned books are Strange Embrace (which he wrote and drew), The Bulletproof Coffin, his collaboration with Shaky Kane, and Storm Dogs with Doug Braithwaite. Hine has collaborated with celebrated indie cartoonist Mark Stafford on three graphic novels: The Man Who Laughs, Lip Hook, and The Bad Bad Place. Current work includes Void Runners for 2000AD, co-created with artist Boo Cook, and A Bulletproof Coffin: Giant. Hine lives in London with his partner, Vikki, and their dog, Milo.

About Shaky Kane

Inspired by the DIY ethic of the early punk movement, Shaky Kane contributed to the burgeoning small press scene before finding a regular spot drawing for British music paper The NME. Kane’s work found a home in a whole host of popular British comic strip publications during the late 1980s to the early 1990s, including Deadline, Revolver, Judge Dredd the Megazine, and 2000 AD. Returning to comics in 2010, Kane collaborated with writer David Hine on the highly acclaimed Bulletproof Coffin series for Image Comics. True to his early artistic inspirations, Kane continues drawing for independent publication to this day, and is regularly published on both sides of the Atlantic. Collaborating with up-and-coming writer Jordan Thomas, Kane’s current work includes Weird Work, published through Image Comics, and Bulletproof Coffin: Giant from Oni Press.

ONI PRESS

THE LOUDEST THING IN COLOR SINCE '97. For nearly 30 years, Oni Press has carved a distinctive path as one of the world's most respected and acclaimed publishers of award-winning comic books and graphic novels, including Bryan Lee O'Malley's Scott Pilgrim, Maia Kobabe's Gender Queer, Cullen Bunn & Brian Hurtt's The Sixth Gun, Brenna Thummler’s Sheets trilogy, Jay Stephens' Dwellings, Ezra Clayton Daniels' Upgrade Soul, LySandra Vuong's Covenant, and many hundreds more. In 2019, Oni Press merged with Lion Forge Comics – the Eisner Award-winning independent comic book publisher founded by Academy Award-winning producer and entrepreneur David Steward II – to create one of the largest, independent libraries of comics content anywhere in media. The Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group now exists as a publishing subsidiary of Steward’s diversified global media company, Polarity.

The Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group publishes more than 60 original and licensed graphic novels annually, in addition to an extensive roster of periodical comics for globally recognized properties including Adventure Time, Biker Mice from Mars, Choose Your Own Adventure, Cult of the Lamb, EC Comics, Murder Drones, Rick and Morty, and more.

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