Eskivo aka Gabriel Santos, Wesley Snipes’ The Exiled (Cyberpunk Noir Story)

Snipes co-wrote this sci-fi detective story and describes it as Blade Runner meets Se7en. A killer has been using ancient tools to tear the spines out of certain victims. Based on what’s shown on this page, this is probably where the assigned detective, “Roach” Washington, learns that the weapons are 5000 years old. Roach then appears to rouse a colleague from bed to give her the news. Puerto Rican artist Eskivo brings a scratchy grittiness to the story’s seedy themes. The heavy black inks accentuate the scene’s dystopian elements. The Exiled # 1, page 25 (2023). A compact 10 X 14.