By Zack Quaintance — Cartoonist Daniel Warren Johnson — perhaps best known for his creator-owned series Murder Falcon and his recent DC Comics Black Label series Wonder Woman: Dead Earth — has unveiled his next project, and the most important thing to note here is that there’s a guy wearing a lucha libre mask on the cover, which rules. The book is called Do A Powerbomb! and it is about wrestling, thus the name and the aforementioned lucha mask. The first issue is due out June 15, and it will see Johnson re-teaming with his regular collaborator, colorist Mike Spicer. I assume the book will also feature letterer Rus Wooton, although that info was missing from the press release.

The series will span seven issues, and the marketing from publisher Image Comics is billing it as The Wrestler meets Dragonball Z. You can check out the full preview text from Image below, along with four completed interior pages from the first issue…enjoy!

Do a Powerbomb follows Lona Steelrose who wants to be a pro wrestler, but lives in the shadow of her mother’s success before her. But everything changes when a wrestling-obsessed necromancer asks Lona to join the grandest—and the most dangerous—pro wrestling tournament of all time!

Finally, this is only loosely related to this book announcement, but if you enjoy comics art and wrestling, I highly recommend checking out Jaime Hernandez’s art book, Queen of the Ring: Wrestling Drawings by Jaime Hernandez 1980 - 2020, which features excellent artwork as well as Hernadez musing about what has long drawn him to illustrating female wrestlers, some of which often appear in his life’s work, Love and Rockets.

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Zack Quaintance is a tech reporter by day and freelance writer by night/weekend. He has written about comics for The Beat and NPR Books, among others. He Tweets compulsively about storytelling and comics as Comics Bookcase.