One of the big announcements from last January’s Image Expo was the latest collaboration from “Batman Incorporated” creators Grant Morrison, Chris Burnham and Nathan Fairbairn, titled “Nameless”. This book, which was a horror comic with roots deep in the Lovecraftian realms, has been maybe the book that has seen maybe the least amount revealed about it since the announcement, but today at Entertainment Weekly, they shared some key insights from Morrison as well as three pages from Burnham and Fairbairn’s art.

Now, I have to warn you, this art is molten hot lava, and is going to make you desperately want that first issue and want it now. This six-issue mini-series is going to be a very different direction from what we’ve seen from Burnham in the past, but clearly it’s going to be one that works well with what Burnham and Fairbairn bring to the table. When this whole issue is released is currently unknown – I imagine February, as this being revealed right before solicits would make sense – but we’ll cover it when it hits. For now, check out what Morrison told EW below, and the first three pages as well.

Nameless is my first collaboration with Chris Burnham since we wrapped up our run on Batman and it’s our first no-holds barred horror comic—a disturbing anti-human voyage to the hopeless outer limits of cosmic nihilism and cruelty, in the company of six doomed astronauts on a mission to save our planet from an approaching asteroid. Needless to say, they get far more than they bargained for. In my superhero comics, I’ve tended to be a cheerleader for the human spirit, but Nameless gives me a rare opportunity to articulate a long-withheld sneering contempt for our miserable species, with its self-serving, sentimental, suicidal self-delusions and its greedy, willful ignorance. Inspired by the dark side occultism of the Tunnels of Set, by pessimist philosophers like Thomas Ligotti and Ray Brassier, and by our culture’s unstoppable, almost erotic, obsession with its own destruction, Nameless is a light-hearted romp through the sunlit meadows of a baby unicorn’s daydreams! Not.

Updated: Colorist Nathan Fairbairn shared the final cover art for the issue with a logo by Rian Hughes as well, and hooooo boy is it gorgeous.