Rafael Aponte
Detective Aponte finds himself at the end of the line, if not at the crossroads of his professional career and personal life.

Mike Oeming: "Aponte's an older cop struggling to choose between his belief in in the Law and his belief in God. As the story begins, he has seen so much evil as a cop, he's lost any faith that there's a God up there looking out for people, but as things turn for the more mysterious, he's going to find he'll be needing more than a gun and a badge to fight this kind of evil. He'll have to make a choice."

Detective Aponte's design is inspired by Mike's father-in-law pictured at left.

Tico Ortiz
The young and often brash partner to Aponte, Detective Ortiz skirts both sides of the law. Ortiz's affiliations are suspect and his temperment equally misguided.

Ivan Brandon on his likeness to the character: "It's weird to see my face on the pages when they come in, and it'll be weirder still on certain scenes towards the end of the story, but he's really only visually based on me, and even then, filtered through the habits and income of a Bronx detective, and a mildly shady one at that. So the dialogue really ends up being completely unlike my own way of speaking, but looking at him on the page is eerie, like I'm watching myself as an actor in a very violent play."

As discussed above, Detective Ortiz's design is inspired by Ivan Brandon pictured at left.

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Ivan Brandon: "She isn't who she seems to be...let's just leave it at that..."

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Ivan Brandon: "She is a Santera - seeking revenge in all the wrong ways, through dark spiritual paths that get out of hand."