Mid 90’s robot noir comic?
November 21, 2018 10:02 AM Subscribe
I’m looking for the title of a comic that probably came out about 1993-1996. It was a noir satire (?) in which the main character was a private detective, but also a robot. I think it was called some combination of The [colour] [flower], like “The White Dahlia” or “The Black Lily”.
I was shown this comic by a friend who apparently had a relative in the US comic industry, who was willing to send pretty grown-up comics to eight year olds. He also had a copy of Neil Gaimen’s gruesome “Teknophage”, which was pretty easy for me to track down when this memory first started bothering me - so I guess my robot noir might be by similar publishers? (Although I don’t think it’s by the same publishers: Tekno comics. Could it have been published by Dark Horse?)
Literally the only other thing I remember about this comic was that it had a speech bubble saying “remind me never to have these wankers as my bankers” (bear in mind that I was also eight years old or so).
I was shown this comic by a friend who apparently had a relative in the US comic industry, who was willing to send pretty grown-up comics to eight year olds. He also had a copy of Neil Gaimen’s gruesome “Teknophage”, which was pretty easy for me to track down when this memory first started bothering me - so I guess my robot noir might be by similar publishers? (Although I don’t think it’s by the same publishers: Tekno comics. Could it have been published by Dark Horse?)
Literally the only other thing I remember about this comic was that it had a speech bubble saying “remind me never to have these wankers as my bankers” (bear in mind that I was also eight years old or so).
Response by poster: Do you remember if it was black and white or color?
Definitely colour!
It isn't "Hard Boiled" is it?
Pretty sure it wasn’t unfortunately.
posted by chappell, ambrose at 12:51 PM on November 21, 2018
Definitely colour!
It isn't "Hard Boiled" is it?
Pretty sure it wasn’t unfortunately.
posted by chappell, ambrose at 12:51 PM on November 21, 2018
Best answer: "The Blue Lily" from Dark Horse?
posted by He Is Only The Imposter at 1:12 PM on November 21, 2018 [3 favorites]
posted by He Is Only The Imposter at 1:12 PM on November 21, 2018 [3 favorites]
Response by poster: Boom!! That’s exactly it! Many thanks, He Is Only The Imposter, that’s been bugging me for several decades.
posted by chappell, ambrose at 1:38 PM on November 21, 2018
posted by chappell, ambrose at 1:38 PM on November 21, 2018
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posted by He Is Only The Imposter at 10:22 AM on November 21, 2018