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findthatbook2022-01-10 08:08 am
numeronone) wrote in findthatbook2022-01-10 08:08 am
Sci-Fi Comic About A Courier Who Travels Between Worlds?
Hullo All.
I woke up this morning puzzled by a notion I'd had of a comic I saw on the scans-daily community ages ago. Only thing is I can't recall the title or the characters' names. I was wondering if anyone might know of it and could help me out?
OK, as far as I remember, the comic in question was a multi-volume saga about a chilled-out, muscly dude -a person of colour, possibly indigenous. In the excerpt shared on s-d, after some years of being a smuggler, he had decided to go legit and become a courier/delivery man.
(NOTE: looking for the terms "courier" and/or "delivery man" alongside "comic" yield nothing helpful).
The excerpts shown on s-d had the hero going about his daily deliveries in a fairly chill/hopeful manner. At one point I remember him making a delivery to a tiny bald child in a tutu who anciously told him "Oh THANK YOU! It's DRUGS! I have CANCER! They'll HELP!", to which our hero replies "Sign here!" with a cheerful smile.
There was also a couple of scenes with one of his old compatriots, a young Latina woman in a boluminous red dress whose name might have been "Pigeon". In the first acene she chews him out for going legit. In the second, he sees her again being accosted by police who have found her smuggling a number of exotic fish under her dress in plastic bags full of water. When asked to give her name she replies "Fuck You", which the cops facetiously take as a legitimate answer. At the end of the scene a cop refers to her as "Miss Fuck", which the chief corrects to "Miss Fuck *You*. Like Mary Lou."
It's highly likely this was written in a different language and translated to English, because during this scene a cop holds up a bag with a clownfish and says "Hey look! I found *No One*!", getting a significant laugh. Obviously this is a reference to "Finding Nemo", but of course in several languages the word "Nemo" means "No-One", so apparently it got translated by mistake.
The narrative was quite dreamy and the setting very urban sci-fi. I remember looking up another volume of the story and finding the hero travelling to another city (or world?) where there was an ongoing pandemic and everyone wore gas masks and hazmat suits not unlike a plague doctor. The hero was having an ongoing conversation with a young woman over a sort of AR skype interface when one of the plague doctors grabs him,infecting him with the disease, after which he goes into quarantine - and nightmarishly, the person who grabbed him was the same person he'd been chatting with.
IDK. It seemed like a beautiful, dreamy story that I'd love to revisit, but I can't for the life of me remember the title, the name of the writers or the name of the protagonist. Thus I'm throwing myself at the mercy of you fine folk - does any of this sound at all familiar?
Thank you so much, in advance, for any help you can furnish.
I woke up this morning puzzled by a notion I'd had of a comic I saw on the scans-daily community ages ago. Only thing is I can't recall the title or the characters' names. I was wondering if anyone might know of it and could help me out?
OK, as far as I remember, the comic in question was a multi-volume saga about a chilled-out, muscly dude -a person of colour, possibly indigenous. In the excerpt shared on s-d, after some years of being a smuggler, he had decided to go legit and become a courier/delivery man.
(NOTE: looking for the terms "courier" and/or "delivery man" alongside "comic" yield nothing helpful).
The excerpts shown on s-d had the hero going about his daily deliveries in a fairly chill/hopeful manner. At one point I remember him making a delivery to a tiny bald child in a tutu who anciously told him "Oh THANK YOU! It's DRUGS! I have CANCER! They'll HELP!", to which our hero replies "Sign here!" with a cheerful smile.
There was also a couple of scenes with one of his old compatriots, a young Latina woman in a boluminous red dress whose name might have been "Pigeon". In the first acene she chews him out for going legit. In the second, he sees her again being accosted by police who have found her smuggling a number of exotic fish under her dress in plastic bags full of water. When asked to give her name she replies "Fuck You", which the cops facetiously take as a legitimate answer. At the end of the scene a cop refers to her as "Miss Fuck", which the chief corrects to "Miss Fuck *You*. Like Mary Lou."
It's highly likely this was written in a different language and translated to English, because during this scene a cop holds up a bag with a clownfish and says "Hey look! I found *No One*!", getting a significant laugh. Obviously this is a reference to "Finding Nemo", but of course in several languages the word "Nemo" means "No-One", so apparently it got translated by mistake.
The narrative was quite dreamy and the setting very urban sci-fi. I remember looking up another volume of the story and finding the hero travelling to another city (or world?) where there was an ongoing pandemic and everyone wore gas masks and hazmat suits not unlike a plague doctor. The hero was having an ongoing conversation with a young woman over a sort of AR skype interface when one of the plague doctors grabs him,infecting him with the disease, after which he goes into quarantine - and nightmarishly, the person who grabbed him was the same person he'd been chatting with.
IDK. It seemed like a beautiful, dreamy story that I'd love to revisit, but I can't for the life of me remember the title, the name of the writers or the name of the protagonist. Thus I'm throwing myself at the mercy of you fine folk - does any of this sound at all familiar?
Thank you so much, in advance, for any help you can furnish.