"What's Behind Door Number 1?" in Blackout #0, by Frank J. Barbiere (writer/letterer), Micah Kaneshiro (artist)
Picked this trade up last year. About a guy who finds a suit that can open portals into some side space that lets him pass through walls and people without being detected. The company he works for built it, and he's using it to try and locate his vanished uncle, who was his boss. The company they work for is also being kept afloat by some questionable, violent people who pay them to create mech suits like the one stepping out of the garage there.
It's only five issues, and everything is left hanging. Dude doesn't find his uncle, or even a definite clue of where he is. We don't learn exactly who the mysterious benefactors are, or what their goals are. I assume the hope was it would generate enough interest to get a second mini-series, or maybe an ongoing. This came out in 2014, so I'm going to say that didn't happen.
The next four issues are drawn and mostly colored by Colin Lorimer, whose work is a little closer to photo-realistic than Kaneshiro's. You can see the Bryan Hitch influence in Lorimer's stuff. Kaneshiro's coloring has at times an almost cel-shaded look, and other times, it's more painted. Lorimer's seems to work better for the action sequences, although Kaneshiro doesn't get much opportunity on that front.
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