Ignition City
Ignition City is a five-issue limited series by Warren Ellis from 2009. It is set in The Fifties of an Alternate History where a Martian invasion interrupted World War Two. Its story is focused on the eponymous Ignition City, the last spaceport of Earth, as it seems that the nations of the world practice an increasing isolationism. A young woman called Mary Raven investigates the murder of her father who lived there.
Tropes used in Ignition City include:
- Descriptive Ville: It's a spaceport
- Dieselpunk
- Raygun Gothic
- Songs in the Key of Lock: One shows up, triggered by the owner's favorite song - "A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square".
- Used Future: The titular city is a spaceport constructed from rusted spaceships that has a lot of expies of classic sci-fi heroes as its residents.
- X Meets Y:
- Flash Gordon meets Deadwood
- Firefly meets Ministry of Space written by the writers of Deadwood