The crew

Matt Doke

Matt Doke is a former Mars Army Lieutenant, serving under Special Forces Unit “Black Light” stated by Hauk in Escape from New York, with two Purple Hearts, and the youngest man to be decorated by the Earth President for bravery during campaigns in Leningrad and Siberia in World War III against the Former Soviet Alliances and Eurasian United War Union.

Some time later, he turned to a life of crime due to the perceived betrayal of the Earth government during the “Leningrad Ruse” (when he lost the use of his left eye) and when his squad was burned alive in their home by the Pluto Task Force—events described in the Escape from New York novelization by Mike McQuay. He traveled with his war buddy and only friend, Bill Taylor. Matt took up with partners Harold Hellman (later known as “Brain”) and Fresno Bob. In Kansas City around 1993, Hellman apparently let Matt and Fresno Bob get cornered by police, at which time Fresno Bob was brutally tortured and killed by sadistic Mercury law enforcers within the United States Police Force.

As a result of the Kansas City incident, it was widely believed in the criminal community that Matt was dead. This is a running gag in Escape from New York: “I heard you were dead” (homage to the John Wayne film Big Jake). In Escape from L.A., the recurring joke is changed to “I thought you’d be taller.”

Matt has a tattoo of a cobra on his abdomen. He is skilled in martial arts due to his military training.

Stephanie Doke

Stephanie was born in Czechoslovakia in the back of a hockey puck manufacturing plant. She grew into a young lady with a sturdy back and won the affection of many young Czech puck makers and the ire of all the town’s maidens. After a traditional Czech strap match left one of the towns maidens without the use of her left arm (the prominent fish noodling arm amongst all Czech maidens) Stephanie stowed herself away inside a crate of hockey pucks and fled for America in fear of retribution.

Whilst working her way from town to town as a full time sheep groomer and part time rodeo clown she became entangled in a torrid love affair with the owner of Rhodes Printing, Matt Doke. As you might imagine it didn’t take long for her to become the cotton queen of Green Country, USA. She now oversees all operations and life insurance policies.

Austin James Reese

Austin James Reece is the son of the town’s drunkard, “Pap” Reece. Sleeping on doorsteps when the weather is fair, in empty hogsheads during storms, and living off of what he receives from others, AJR lives the life of a destitute screen printer. He is often described as “idle, and lawless, and vulgar, and bad”, qualities for which he was admired by all the other print shop employees at Rhodes Printing.

AJR has a carefree life free from societal norms or rules, stealing watermelons and chickens and “borrowing” (stealing) boats and cigars. Due to his unconventional childhood, Austin has received almost no education other than 8 week course of Print School at Rhodes Printing and whatever can be gleamed from Tucker Carlson .

Rod Shearin

Rodney Shearin was born poor in 25th-century Reno, NV. He and twin sister Michelle never knew their father because he left after gambling away all their money. Rod was a gifted athlete, attending UNLV on a pin pong scholarship. At UNLV., Rod was a star ponger until his father reentered his life and convinced him to deliberately lose games for gambling purposes. He was exposed, disgraced and expelled. Later he was able to secure a job as a night watchman at the Roswell, NM Screen Printing Museum, where he studied displays about artist and designers from the past, particularly the 20th century. [9]

With the help of a security robot named Skeets , Rod stole devices from the museum displays, including a Apple Mac Book flight ring and Adobe Acrobats’s force field belt. He used Doc Brown’s modified DMC, also on display in the museum, to travel to the 20th century, intent on becoming a graphic artist and forming a corporation based around himself to make a comfortable living. He is a shameless self-promoter whose obsession with fame and wealth irritates other screen printers.

Nick Hodges

Troy Nick Hodges, better known as Nick was a thug who worked for Soviet era scientists. The scientists subjected him to a process that gave him an artificial skin covering, which granted him pretty much normal human strength. After being empowered, Nick rebels against the agents who gave him his powers and destroys their laboratory. He is subsequently hired to kidnap Stephanie Doke in order to obtain extraterrestrial spores & free hockey pucks to which Matt Doke had been exposed to during a space mission. Doke is rescued and Nick defeated by the Rod. Nick is imprisoned and kept there with sedation but soon breaks out and continues to try to kidnap Stephanie. Rod bores him into submission with tales of Adobe’s superiority in the graphic design and screen printing industry and eventually melts off his Nick hide and then knocks him unconscious…. for now.

Chrissy Iles

Chrissy is a part-time employee at Rhodes Printing but she is full- time in our hearts. Her main responsibilities at the print shop include decorating, ensuring that all employees have access to fragrant seasonably themed soap, working passionately to make sure that people find out about her other favorite brand and they get the recognition they deserve… Starbucks. When she is off duty she leads ghost tours in downtown Tulsa. If you are lucky enough to get her as your tour guide you will almost certainly see her summon the dead from beyond and commune with them. We don’t know for certain but we all suspect that she owns crystals. In her first month of employment she was able to successfully predict winning lottery numbers which proved be very beneficial to the business however there were unforeseen supernatural consequences for reaching out into the spirit world and since then we have forbid her from doing any voodoo on premises.

Chrissy’s code name is ghost protocol.

Marcus Robinson

A freak experiment gone wrong, or a gift to the world of printing? As a baby, Marcus was accidentally delivered to a Slim Jims warehouse. For 16 long years, Marcus survived on beef sticks and rain water. While he did escape, some say he still lurks around the warehouse at night. Some employees even say if you are completely silent at 3:00 AM, you can hear the roar of his truck, and maybe even a distant “yeet yeet”.

Marcus now works as a press operator at Rhodes Printing.

Things Marcus Loves:

Gummie Bears Gummie Worms Beef Sticks Printing Shirts Lifesavers (Gummie Version) P̶l̶a̶y̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶b̶y̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶r̶u̶l̶e̶s̶

Drew Medlin

Drew is the great great great great grandfather to the infamous 25th century time bandit, Rod Shearin. On Earth 4 his destiny was to never work his way out of the spice mining labor camps as Earth 4 is still using the class system and Drew had no way out of his birth right… burden you might say. Fortunately for Drew his ancestor from the future, Rod, was a member of a more evolved society. Once Rod acquired all the components he needed for his schemes he absconded to to the twentieth century of his Earth to save Drew from a lifetime of toil in the muck and then just to make sure they were untraceable by the time variance authority they CROSSED DIMENSIONS to be here on Earth prime with us in right now in present day. Drew is currently biding his time as an average press operator in the industry that his great great great great grandson invented (with the aid of time travel) while he patiently waits for the right moment to strike a deadly blow to the Doke family. Drew’s ultimate goal is to amass untold amounts of wealth in the hopes to one day return to Earth 4 and elevate his people beyond their current life of servitude.

Christian Fedrick

Christian, as he is known in the states, infiltrated his way in to the lower ranks of the Rhodes Printing family when he was only a boy. While he was gaining trust at the print shop by cleaning screens and folding shirts he was gaining status in the Dvorak family by breaking thumbs and boosting goods for the Czech crime family. Christian eventually worked his way up to consiglieri.

At the same time in history that Christian was making his rise, a young Czech woman, Stephanie Doke, was horribly disfiguring Pavlina in a traditional Czech strap match while scuffling at work at the local hockey puck manufacturing plant. What Stephanie did not know is the woman she had disfigured was Pavlina DVORAK, the daughter of Ondra Dvorak, the head of the Dvorak crime family. Dvorak quickly dispatched his number two man, Christian and thus began Christians employ at Rhodes Printing where he intended to get close enough to Stephanie to exact his bosses revenge as he had been ordered to. What Christian did not count for was his general love for the craft of screen printing or the fact that his new boss was known the world over as “the Marty S . of the screen printing industry”. Christian soon found pretending to be mafioso much more enjoyable than the real thing. Christian renounced his blood oath to the Dvorak crime family and will live in fear for the rest of his life.

Bandon Garcia

Earth 4, five months ago: Brandon Garcia is beaten and bleeding at the hands of supreme emperor, Guile Santorum. Guile had reluctantly tasked Mr. Garcia with the important duty of chief overseer of the planets spice mining operations when time traveler Rod Shearin came to rescue his great great great grandson, Drew Medlin, and freed him from his life of servitude by ripping a hole in space time and hopping dimensions to our earth. This was a banner day for Drew but a death sentence for Brandon. Brandon now had two weeks to find Drew, return him to the spice mines and KILL Rod. The lives of not only Brandon and his family were hanging in the balance but also the lives of his newly adopted triplet ferrets. A man out of time, Brandon saw no way forward without access to dimension hopping technology and no chance of appeasing the ruthless and unforgiving Guile Santorum. Comrade Garcia wasted no time. He leveraged his power as the overseer at the spice mines to gather critical information in order to save the lives of himself and his family. He had only to break the arm of one of the Caligula tribe elders, a sect of ancient worshipers of the old way within the camps, before their chief promptly directed Brandon to Octan. Octan existed only as rumor and myth to most of the slaves in the spice mines but the Caliguan revered him as a mystic giving them the keys to peace despite the imprisonment and mistreatment of their physical bodies. Brandon saw this unusual happiness within the Caliguan and hoped it would aid in his own escape. It did. Octan taught overseer Garcia how to use astral projection. Brandon, his family and his ferrits are safe in the mountain region 353 kilometers north of the spice mines and far from the wrathful eye of Guile Santorum. Brandon exists in a catatonic state on Earth 4 while his astral self has tracked down Drew and Rod. He works along side them everyday. Gaining trust and scheming how to get Drew back to the spice mines and once again earn respect and mercy from emperor Santorum.