BYLINES IN BLOOD (2021)
Aftershock Comics | Cowritten by Erica Schultz | Illustrated by Aneke
Read a review at Adventures in Poor Taste.
The future. The very concept of truth has died. Politicians invent their own facts, and independent newspapers no longer exist. In this world, private detectives serve as ronin, searching out the hard truths that people are desperate to keep hidden.
The best of these is Satya, known as Lady Dick, a former journalist turned gumshoe who runs every lead to ground. But Satya has just received her hardest case yet: her old editor has been murdered. Someone wanted him silenced, and the trail points toward the highest bastions of power. To find justice for her friend, she’ll have to put everything – and everyone – she knows at risk.
A prophetic neo-noir thriller with unexpected twists at every turn, BYLINES IN BLOOD is co-created by Ringo Award nominated writer Erica Schultz (M3, Forgotten Home, Strange Tails) and comic writer and former newspaper crime reporter Van Jensen (Two Dead, Cryptocracy, Superman: Man of Tomorrow), aided and abetted by Spanish art sensation Aneke (DC Comics Bombshells, Legendary: Red Sonja).
“A fantastic first issue. Schultz and Jensen hit the ground running without giving the main character (and the readers) any time to catch their breath.”
“Its authenticity goes even further by the fact that co-writer Van Jensen is a former newspaper crime reporter who, according to a micro interview in Bylines In Blood #1, “raced around to crime scenes” and “saw a lot of blood and pain in the process.” Jensen’s experience gives truth to Satya, and also brings the present-day closer to the comic’s dystopian setting.”