Created by Jordan Blum, Tim Seeley & Scott Koblish There was a whole lotta shaking goin' on... In The Big Shakedown, a 2026 four-issue comic mini-series from Dark Horse, it's the not-so-distant future and the long-promised "Big One" has finally hit, laying waste to most of Los Angeles, crumbling its freeways, leveling its skyscrapers and … Continue reading Ester Blanco (The Big Shakedown)
Tag: Post-apocalypse
Rick Deckard (Blade Runner)
Created by Philip K. Dick Developed for the screen by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples When the topic of sci-fi/private eyes comes up for air, so does director Ridley Scott's grim and gritty 1982 film Blade Runner, and, occasionally, the 1968 Philip K. Dick novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? that it was loosely (very … Continue reading Rick Deckard (Blade Runner)
McNihil
Created by K.W. Jeter In the appropiately-titled Noir (1998), K.W. Jeter introduces McNIHIL, an ex-Collection Agency information cop with a fetish for 1940's crime flicks, stuck in the same bleak, apolyptic L.A. of the future as Ridley Scott's classic 1982 noir/sci-fi flick Blade Runner, with more than a little Neuromancer tossed into the mix. You … Continue reading McNihil