God’s Dead and Nothing’s Normal in This Noir-Tinged Look InsideCosmic Detective

Even in a world ofcosmic horrorsand supernatural oddities , acase is a case , and a hardboiled investigator has still catch ta knead the piece of work , dine at the diner , and … traverse the break nightmare landscape hidden inside the trunk of his elevator car ?

The latest lifelike novel fromJeff Lemire , Matt Kindt , and David Rubin , Cosmic Detective , has alreadylit up Kickstarter , breaking beyond its financial support goals to the tune of , as of writing , $ 86,000 . Considering the duo wanted less than half that to get to print , suffice to say the demand forweird noiris high .

And there ’s good reason . Cosmic Detective combines the phantasmagoric and the genre image of tec fiction to create something that seem both iconically intimate and also just plain funky . It ’s a outre mix of the back - bowling alley street and dingy diners of all good detective fiction with some eldritch horrors and interstellar weirdness .

This is fine. Everything’s fine. Just walk cool and act normal.

This is fine. Everything’s fine. Just walk cool and act normal.Image: David Rubin

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The latter arrive for our mysterious , titular private heart when he ’s tasked with a new case on his desk : a god has been bump off , and only he — and the mysterious cabal of cosmically - array masterminds he ’s been working with — are suit for the task of finding out whodunnit . Take a look at the sort of quirkiness who can investigate a dead god like it ’s just the every day in our exclusive look inside Cosmic Detective below :

Cosmic Detective is specify to release in May 2021 . If you desire to skip on for a preorder or get memory access to tier rewards like exclusive hardcover and even play posting , the Kickstarter campaignis currently runninguntil June 3 .

The full cover for Cosmic Detective.