Cowboy Bebop is receiving a snazzy cover by Stanley "Artgerm" Lau for Titan Publishing's tie-in comic to Netflix's upcoming series.
Artgerm's art appears on the cover of Cowboy Bebop: The Comic Series #1, which is penned by Dan Watters (Lucifer, Home Sick Pilots) with interior artwork by Lamar Mathurin. Issue 1 of the four-issue saga releases in December, and a trade paperback arrives next May.
Artgerm, who has previously drawn the anime versions of Spike Siegel, Faye Valentine many times, tweeted that crafting a realistic version of the two characters was "one of the most unexpected covers I've done."
Cowboy Bebop: The Comic Series features the crew of the spacefaring Bebop ship chasing a former gang member who possesses a vest that supposedly grants the wearer infinite luck. The series will be accompanied by a November prequel novel, A Syndicate Story: Red Planet Requiem, about the relationship between a young Spike Spiegel and his rival Vicious back when they were working for the crime syndicates of Mars. Titan will also publish a coffee table art book, Cowboy Bebop: Making the Netflix Series, in the spring of 2022.
Titan Publishing's Netflix tie-in is not the first instance that Cowboy Bebop has been adapted into comic form. Two Cowboy Bebop manga series loosely based on the original anime were released in 1998 and 1999 by Japanese publisher Kadokawa Shoten.
The live-action Cowboy Bebop premieres on Netflix Nov. 19.
Source: Titan Publishing