Check out Planetoid from Image comics.

It's VERY Blame!
(Powerful Gun, Machine planet, killer robots, loner hero, scavenging humans, AI)

http://www.imagecomics.com/comics/4814/Planetoid-1

*heads to digital-clone*
i highly recommend chew from image, it's ridiculously awesome and.. well.. ridiculous

That's exactly what i thought too when I saw it. But not quite BLAME! because it's well... American so it has to have the squared jaw hero. At best we can say the artist is obviously a Nihei fan so he used some of the backgrounds and mechanical monsters. Issue 3 was a major disappointment. Yawn.

read first issue and yeah.. not my stuff

talking about comics, i like ashley wood's, ben templesmith's, christopher shy's, sean murphy's, tim sale's, lee bermejo's art

Want something similar to Nihei, look up the new 2012 Prophet series being written by Brandon Graham. The art style is like a copy and so is the story is very similar to Biomega: weird monsters, bizarre battles, quest for something, etc

Talkin' 'bout comics, the original Metal Hurlant crowd still tops the list for me. moebius(Jean Giraud RIP), Phillipe Druillet, Rich Corben, Caza, Enki Bilal, Nikollet. It's interesting how Enki Bilal works now resembles Nihei's careless looking sketchy art. Blial even interviewed Nihei but the interview is in Japanese...;-(
here is my moebius folder: http://www.mediafire.com/?7hr48jqjcq5bk

Good alternative American artist is Paul Pope. His THB series are great. Here is my folder of the THB series: http://www.mediafire.com/?r25vusm7o2hm1. I personally scanned THB 6a-b-c-d.

sweeeet