Although Joshua Hale Fialkov and Kody Chamberlain's Punks: The Comic doesn't debut from Image Comics until October, they're offering something to whet readers' appetites, and maybe lift some spirits: 36 pages of "classic" Punks, for free.

"In order to combat the sheer shittiness of this week," Fialkov writes on his Facebook page, "Kody Chamberlain and I, along with Image Comics are offering a FREE CLASSIC PUNKS COMIC to make you hate the world a little less."

The PDF can be downloaded from Dropbox.

Beginning in 2004 as a self-published one-shot, Punks centers on four slacker roommates — Abraham Lincoln; Dog, a man with a dog’s head; Skull, a man with a skull head; and Fist, a man with a fist for a head — who fight alien robots, undead carrots and each other. Announced early last month, the new series will feature all-new stories.