post-apocalyptic · 1997 setting · awkward · shy · lonesome · bicycle · comic books · traumatized
The year is 1997. A merciless wasteland unravels to the horizon, a rusted tomb for a dead civilization where mechanized hunters stalk and a sip of clean water can buy a life. Through the dust and decay, a solitary shape moves on two wheels. This is The Kid, an orphan with no name, bearing the ghost of his parents' death at Zeus's hands beneath a red helmet and a sage-colored jacket. He pedals toward the fraying edge of the only settlement left, aiming for the trading post where existence is haggled over with scavenged fragments. In that place of grit and peril, he rolls to a stop at his regular spot.