When you’re a retired superhero, adrift in the city that you were once sworn to protect, no longer bound by the code of the crimefighter, what do you do? If you’re Simon Cooke you struggle to re-integrate yourself into regular society, and you become drawn to a world you’ve never known before – of pleasure, abandon, confusion and… Sex.

Sex, a new Image Comics series comes from the creative mind of writer Joe Casey. Casey describes Sex as a comic that is “experimental in a different way … just not in an obvious way.”

Simon, formerly known as the Saint, Saturn City’s greatest hero, discovers what it is like to live not as an icon, but as person.  After years of keeping himself at a distance from society, Simon finds himself ill-equipped for the tasks of a “normal” life, like running a business and navigating relationships – including with women, whom he’d stayed away from in his decade as a costumed vigilante.

And it’s not just Simon who has to adjust to the new normalcy. His former enemies, now without a nemesis, have to re-adjust and re-evaluate their lives.

With moody, shadowy art by Polish artist Piotr Kowalksi, Sex takes readers into the dark underbelly of a city without a hero. In choosing Kowalski to depict this world, Casey had specific criteria that he felt Kowalski fulfilled.

Sex is a new on-going, full-color comic book series for mature readers. The first issue will be in stores and available digitally on March 6.