Image Comics announced Rob Williams and artist Pye Parr are teaming for Petrol Head, a pedal-to-the-metal, action-packed sci-fi series set to arrive in November 2023.
In a climate crisis-ravaged future metropolis, an old, grumpy, obsolete, smoke-belching, cigar-chomping, hotrod-racing robot is one 12-year-old girl’s only hope. Together, can they outrace the chasing Robo-Cops with an invention that might just save humanity? Readers will jump straight into the non-human race with this robo-gorgeous launch issue featuring 42 story pages.
“Petrol Head is that rare thing in comics—art that feels like it’s actually moving on the page,” said Williams in a press release. “Pye’s racing sequences have this kinetic, Akira-like energy and he draws the best robots, and cars, and robots driving cars. We both come from a 2000AD background and we wanted to bring that same punky, funny edge to what is basically a heartfelt story about one smart little girl who may just be able to save the whole human race from a climate emergency, but she has to team up with a grumpy, obsolete hotrod-racing robot to do it.”
Petrol Head arrives on November 8, 2023.
