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IDW BRINGS CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED GRAPHIC NOVELS VIOLENT MESSIAHS: THE BOOK OF JOB and VIOLENT MESSIAHS: LAMENTING PAIN TO BOOKSHELVES
It tells a complex and layered tale about the fictional
city of This dark tale of love and destruction is followed by Volume II—Violent Messiahs: Lamenting Pain. This installment collects the second story arc - a brand-new, never-before-seen Citizen Pain story, as well as other bonus materials. Created by acclaimed writer Joshua Dysart (Unknown
Soldier, Hellboy - BPRD:1946) and William O’Neill ( "This was my first comic book ever, and it has all
the joys that come with a first work,” Dysart says. “Written between
jobs in restaurants and bookstores, during a period of tumultuous
relationships and, quite frankly, a lot of drug use, it seems now, in
retrospect, to be the very spirit of my youth, that is, angry, dark,
glorious, ambitious, cocky and ultimately, hungry to be about something
greater than itself." Subsequently Dysart has written for every
major publisher in the comics industry, on such luminary titles as Swamp
Thing, The Age of Conan and Hellboy: BPRD 1946. He’s
adapted Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Deepak Chopra’s Buddha.
He’s written Avril Lavigne’s - Make 5 Wishes and for his most recent
project Unknown Soldier Dysart spent a month researching in Beyond the masked men, cops with checkered pasts, and trappings of crime, Violent Messiahs takes an unflinching look at some of life’s most fundamental questions. As a film-noir, urban retelling of “Frankenstein” crossbred with “Beauty and the Beast” it delves even further into the ideas of social control, “heroism”, and violence. It also takes a unique look at theology, while combining sci-fi elements like indestructible clones and dark conspiracies. The story takes a genre- bending look at some of our most basic human flaws. At the center of the story is Lieutenant Cheri Major, a woman obsessed with doing away with crime and the two killers plaguing her city. Yet each of the two men serve a seemingly higher purpose, the stitch-masked vigilante “Citizen Pain,” who murders criminals and, the serial killer “Family Man”, who slaughters parents he deems “unfit.” But what Cheri doesn’t know is the link between these two and the secret society they represent. Yet while one is an outcast and the other an agent of this megalomaniacal cabal, both are ultimately serving their programming and searching for their true selves. O’Neill dreamt up Citizen Pain in a small sketch book, while in art school over 15 years ago. “Citizen Pain has been with me for a long time. IDW is an excellent company and they print some of the best books out today. I couldn’t be more thrilled that they are the new home for Violent Messiahs. With The Dark Knight and The Watchmen in the public mind there couldn’t be a better time to reintroduce our Warrior Poet to the world.”
Violent Messiahs: The Book of Job and Violent Messiahs: Lamenting Pain are on sale now. About IDW For
more information contact: Jan
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Nominated for a Harvey Award, Wizard
Fan Award, and the prestigious Eisner’s Russ Manning Award the graphically compelling
and poetic, Violent Messiahs: The Book of Job is a strange and twisted
look at morality and the complex role of violence in our lives. The
book is a thoughtful commentary on the ability of the individual to create
their own reality and ultimately be redeemed by love. About Us | Site Map | Privacy Policy | Contact Us | ©2010 Hurricane
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