 Murphy worked on "Joe the Barbarian", which was published in early 2010.In 2012 Murphy wrote, penciled and inked the six-issue, black and white creator-owned Vertigo miniseries "Punk Rock Jesus", which stars a clone of Jesus Christ who starred in his own reality television program as a child, and has grown into a rebellious young man.The miniseries was described as Murphy's "passion project years in the making", and focuses on religion and the media in the United States as themes, more complicated issues than Murphy had previously addressed in his work.