Mattson Tomlin, screenwriter of Matt Reeves’ The Batman and its upcoming sequel, has paired with artist Lee Bermejo (best known for his work on DC books Batman: Damned and Before Watchmen: Rorschach) to create a comics miniseries about a time travelling assassin titled A Vicious Circle.

The three-issue prestige miniseries will be published by Boom! Studios and will arrive on stands in December. The story centres on two men cursed to roam across time and space in an unending cycle of violence and revenge. One of the men, Shawn Thacker, is a trained assassin from the future who seeks revenge on the only other man with his affliction. Each hit they make forces them to travel involuntarily between vastly different past and future eras. The story will take them men from 22nd century Tokyo to 1950s New Orleans, to the Cretaceous Era and beyond, as they become locked in a battle of wills that spans millions of years. Bermejo will, at times, diverge from his usual art style to take inspiration from the times and artists of the period in which the characters find themselves.

“The concept is one thing but we really wanted to harness the medium of comics so Lee took it upon himself to change his art style every time we go to a new time and place,” Tomlin states via The Hollywood Reporter, who were the first to report on the comic series. “So on one hand it’s this high octane action story, there is this other component that is a love letter to the medium. You’re going to see images that you would never have expected to come out of that guy.”

The comic will be published in an oversized format and will feature editions with cover art by Bermejo, Alex Garner, Jae Lee, Rafael Grampá, and more.

Check out some of the cover and internal artwork for A Vicious Circle below: