Co-writers Robert Windom and Lily Windom, Eisner Award winning artist Jae Lee, and colorist June Chung will kick comics into high gear with the upcoming ongoing series M1: Monster Racing League. This high-octane launch will start its engines in June from Image Comics.

This launch will include an eye-popping variant cover by Jon J Muth and additional, highly collectible covers by Lee.

Emmy Award winning writer and producer Jeffrey M. Howard is also developing an animated version of the series.

When 17-year-old Dev moves to Japan, she stumbles into an underground world of illegal street racing, where speed is power and mutation wins championships. This high-octane sci-fi drama, set in a near-future Tokyo, is Fast & Furious by way of KPop Demon Hunters, Arcane, and Akira.

This project marks the second project that the Windoms have written together after the graphic novel Family Time, which Lily co-wrote with her father at just eleven-years-old.

This also will be the first time that award-winning creator Jae Lee has been an interior artist on an ongoing monthly comic book series since the ’90s. Husband-wife duo Lee and Chung are known for their popular comic covers and interior art collaborations on titles such as This Ends Tonight and Batman/Superman.

Outside of comic writing, Robert Windom is known for executive producing the documentary Dave Stevens: Drawn to Perfection, for which he won a Film Threat award. The critically acclaimed film was directed by Kelvin Mao; Windom, Lee, and Chung also co-created the Image Comics limited series This Ends Tonight and Seven Sons with Mao.

M1: Monster Racing League #1 will also feature a variant cover illustrated by Caldecott Honoree Jon J Muth, who is known for creating children’s books such as Zen Ties and illustrating graphic novels such as Grant Morrison’s The Mystery Play, for which he won the Eisner Award in the “Best Painter” category.

M1: Monster Racing League #1 will be available at comic book shops on Wednesday, June 10.

• Cover A by Jae Lee – Lunar Code 0426IM0285
• Cover B by Muth – Lunar Code 0426IM0286
• Cover C Blank Sketch cover – Lunar Code 0426IM0287
• Cover D 1:25 copy incentive by Jae Lee – Lunar Code 0426IM0288
• Cover E: black & white 1:50 copy incentive by Jae Lee – Lunar Code 0426IM0289