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Also, I don't think I've seen a real "punk" since the 1980's, the term, fashion, and lifestyle is out of date yet this is supposed to take place in the near future, but I guess HIPSTER JESUS doesn't have the same marketing appeal. Driven to Suicide: Gwen has a dream that she jumps off the balcony of her room at the psychiatric hospital after escaping J2, but is saved by what she believes is an angel. This leads to her renewed efforts to rescue Chris from J2.

Bears Are Bad News: Cola, the friendly polar bear Dr. Epstein domesticated, goes completely apeshit on the NAC goons who try to infiltrate the J2 island. My big takeaway was the tragedy of blind faith. The Christians in the book largely had it– the IRA did as well, in hindsight– but Chris did too. I think his militant atheism is examined, but never glorified by Murphy, and I think it’s meant to be tragic that Chris perishes with that mindset intact.A multinational entertainment company starts a project called J2, which creates a clone from Jesus Christ's DNA, and make a 24 hour live reality show on clones daily life from birth. Half of the world considers it as the second coming of christ, and other half names him as the Antichrist and declares war against him, and the show TRP keeps getting higher and higher. The story unfolds with different characters around the project, and each of them has different reasons to be in this story.

The story is pretty interesting. There’s no denying it’s unique. I also think it’s interesting as sure, it is sacrilegious science fiction but it’s also oddly fitting. As this story points out, Jesus was against the government and religions of his time so in a more modern setting it makes sense to make him punk. Not to mention, all the stuff about the show and controversy before he becomes punk is fairly interesting. Zorro: Man of the Dead #1-4 (script and art, with Matt Hollingsworth, Massive Publishing, January 2024 - April 2024) Boom, Headshot!: Thomas does this to his Uncle Sully, after finding out he was the one who killed his father. With an assault rifle. On full auto. A few times I asked myself, “would this be as interesting if the clone wasn’t Jesus?” If you took away the Christ element, you would have a story of a boy and his mother broken by the manipulation of media and religion. I think we’d have a story with potential insight into our media-hungry world. The story never proves that Chris is a clone of Jesus. The scientist behind the cloning even has her doubts; she never saw them extracting the DNA from the shroud. He has also had a run on Hellblazer [2] and, also at Vertigo, he is the artist on Joe the Barbarian, with writer Grant Morrison. [3]

This comic book contains examples of:

When the Helicopter is going down, Chris and Co. are all together, but when it crashes, Chris is death between the choppers while the rest of the gang is perfectly safe far from him, how?! (also did you noticed the "apologies to michelangelo" not in that panel? that was funny, I didn´t see it the first time, I think I was really in the story). The Shroud of Turin is a fake, but let's assume it's real. DNA from the Shroud could only have remained viable if frozen and vacuum-sealed - did they have fridges and vacuum cleaners in Jesus's time? How about for the following, say, 1900 years? No? OK, but it's a story, right? I mean the scientist claims to have developed a method to undo 2000 years of damage to the DNA, so there you go. She also mentions pheromone production as important in a child's development. Humans can't detect pheromones like animals in the wild can. That's just something perfume companies use in commercials. Seriously, what scientists worth his salt believes these things? Unless they are blinded by money. Then again, it could just be faith or something, so maybe I'm full of crap. O'Shea, Tim (January 18, 2010). "Talking Comics with Tim: Sean Murphy". Robot 6. Comic Book Resources . Retrieved January 19, 2010.

The story isn't perfect and it has religious tones that I'd rather do without, but this was Murphy's first attempt at his own creator-owned work and his editor managed bring out the best he could do at that time. The art, without a doubt, is superb. This book, more than his past work, ensconced Murphy into the reader's consciousness that this guy is at the top of his art game. Throw in a hugely manipulative media director, who controls everything, and is wholly evil beyond belief. It's interesting you say artists need to see this "as a business and not as a hobby for celebrity artists." I know that you were an apprentice to an artist before attending art school. Do you think that helped shape your thinking and eliminated any adolescent notion that some of us may have had about art? What I found interesting is that you get to read 15 years of story in a book that is not that long and I really felt that time was well described, you could feel the passing of it.American Vampire: Survival of the Fittest (with Scott Snyder, five-issue limited series, Vertigo, August 2011 – December 2011) Usually of a group of religious zealots hoarding guns don't have to wait too long before they meet their maker... 'round these here parts. Having acquired DNA from the Shroud of Turin (a burial cloth believed to belong to Jesus), a media entertainment company decides to create a clone with the DNA and raise him on a reality show. Of course, to make it truer to the Bible, they decide to implant the egg into an 18-year-old virgin, Gwen Fairling. As he grows up, every aspect of “Chris’ ” life is controlled and manipulated. In school, he’s taught creationism and faith healing. Accidents and events set up by the network are “miracles” to the believing masses. I've agreed to collaborate with another big writer in summer 2014 that I'm also excited about. Afterward, I'm considering either moving into European comics or perhaps taking a break and getting into video games and concept art for a while. I'm also considering writing scripts for other artists, but we'll see.

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