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Comic book miniseries Self Help to launch this June via Image Comics' Syzygy line

Image Comics will bring an exciting new miniseries to its Syzygy line this summer.

Announced today, Self Help will debut its first issue on Wednesday, June 19 at comic book stores and on digital platforms. The five-issue miniseries was co-written by Owen King (Sleeping Beauties, The Curator) and Jesse Kellerman (The Genius, The Golem of Hollywood) with artist Marianna Ignazzi (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Bram Stoker Award nominated An Unkindness of Ravens), colorist Fabiana Mascolo, and designer/letterer Ian Chagren helping bring this tale to life.

A synopsis for Self Help reads:

In Self Help, readers are introduced to down-on-his-luck rideshare driver Jerry Hauser, whose existence is a bleak one…especially because every fare he picks up tells him how much he looks like ultra-successful self-help guru Darren Hart. But in a twist of fate, Jerry is given the chance of a lifetime…which, if he’s not careful, may well end his lifetime. So begins this rollicking and gleefully lurid pulp crime story.

From there the story races ahead at an ever-increasing speed, and with an ever-increasing body count, as Jerry assumes his rival’s identity, fights to keep a lid on the murder, fends off the Euro-gangsters to whom Darren was heavily indebted, placates Darren’s calculating assistant Cassandra, and rebuilds his relationship with his estranged ex-wife Michelle and daughter Amelia. Oh, and he also needs to avoid the white supremacists that hold Jerry’s personal marker—except to them, he’s Danny McClure—and keep up his Drÿvÿr rating.

Issue number one of Self Help will arrive with four different covers done by Ignazzi, Stephen Byrne, Steven Russell Black, and Ashley Wood, which can be seen below.