Created by Harry Turtledove City of Angels? If only... It's the 1950s, and hard-drinking, chain-smoking, hard-boiled Los Angeles JACK MITCHELL is right out of central casting — except that the post-war mean streets he goes down are teeming with creatures Marlowe never had to deal with: vampires, ghosts, wizards, talking cats, zombies and assorted creepy … Continue reading Jack Mitchell (The City of Shadows series)
Tag: Alternate History
Perry Cutter (Los Monstruos)
Created by James Robinson (writer) and Jesus Merino (art) Stop me if you've heard this one before... So once again we're back in the retro-1950s, with a hard-boiled private eye, PERRY CUTTER, and all the allegedly noir trimmings. Familiar turf, especially for a comic book. Then again, Los Montruos from Dark Horse, being a 21st … Continue reading Perry Cutter (Los Monstruos)
Morris Baker
Created by Josh Weiss When MORRIS BAKER first appeared, in 2022’s Beat the Devils, he wasn’t a private eye. Or was he? With alternate history novels, it’s hard to keep track, sometimes, as history is folded, bent and mutilated to fit the author’s vision. In Beat the Devils (2022), set in a hellish version of the post-WWII … Continue reading Morris Baker