Last Driver #1 Ashcan Promo

A rare pre-release ashcan for Sean Gordon Murphy's return to Image Comics. The Last Driver is Murphy's first Image series since Tokyo Ghost in 2015 — a landscape-format, dystopian racing saga described as Escape from New York meets Vanishing Point. In a future where driving has been outlawed by a robotic transportation grid, an outlaw named Clutch takes the wheel one last time to save his granddaughter, sparking a rebellion against technology and fascism along the way.

Ashcans are miniature, low-print promotional editions distributed ahead of a series launch to build advance buzz among retailers and collectors — scarce by design, not by chance. Image Comics is distributing this ashcan through limited convention channels, including SDCC 2026, keeping print runs tight.

Series specs: The Last Driver #1 (of 5) releases August 19, 2026, with variant covers by Murphy, Corin Howell, Matteo Scalera, and Ryan Ottley.

Why it matters for collectors: Murphy is a proven commercial force — his prior creator-owned work (Tokyo Ghost, Punk Rock Jesus) and Batman: White Knight line have strong secondary-market track records. Ashcans tied to a big-name creator's first new ongoing in a decade carry real long-term hold potential; first-run Image promos from major launches are the kind of thing that still trade well years later.