Exclusive: Dream Police Character Sketches From Joe's Comics

Joe's Comics have exclusively revealed some character sketches for J. Michael Straczynski's upcoming series Dream Police from artist Sid Kotian. This new series isn't the first time we've seen Dream Police. The first time around, it was a one-shot from Marvel Comics's Icon line which was meant to be a creative outlet for contract creators to publish creator-owned work while at Marvel. Back then, it was written by Straczynski with art by Mike Deodato. Now that he's not doing contract work for Marvel, Straczynski moved the title over to his Joe's Comics imprint and is now self-publishing it with Kotian on art.

Here's the official rundown from Joe's Comics:

Dream Police follows Detectives Joe Thursday and Frank Stanford as they navigate the dreamscape. Joe and Frank have been partners for as long as they can remember, patrolling the alternate universe of dreams, nightmares, and the great void beyond, an alternate but very real dimension of changelings, echoes, wisps, ethers, and nightwalkers, those that died in their sleep and wander the dreamscape forever. The Dream Police have seen it all. But when Frank steps away and disappears… and the woman who returns says she's Joe's partner, that she's always been Joe's partner… he begins a journey into the unknown that will shake the dreaming down to its very foundation.

The comic, if you couldn't tell, takes some cues from the classic radio/TV/film franchise Dragnet, in which Sgt. Joe Friday and his series of partners, including Frank Smith, explored law enforcement in Los Angeles. Dream Police #1 is on sale April 30 and costs $2.99.