Kabuki: Skin Deep

David Mack’s Kabuki: Skin Deep is a single-issue prestige one-shot from Image Comics, released in 1998, that delves deeper into the psyche of the masked operative known as Kabuki. Mack, serving as both writer and artist, uses this installment to explore the character’s identity and the symbolic masks she wears, rendered in his signature mixed-media style. As a standalone chapter in the larger Kabuki mythos, it exemplifies Mack’s fusion of lyrical storytelling with experimental visual art, making it a key entry for fans of the series’ introspective, noir-inflected world.