THE WICKED + THE DIVINE

THE WICKED + THE DIVINE………

AUTHOR…GILLEN MCKELVIE

ARTIST….WILSON COWLES

VOULME 1…..THE FAUST ACT

(Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend. He is a scholar who is highly successful yet dissatisfied with his life, so he makes a pact with the Devil, exchanging his soul for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures.)..…  from wikipedia..

Concept…12 gods as teenage popstars ..most love them,few hate them….they are immortal but only for 2 years…they die to be reincarnated 90 years later..

the innovative idea of popstars as gods is a very good one as among westerners they already are ….

story…..

laura is an young  fangirl of many popsingers  and aspire to be one of them….when few of these are giving interview to media an assassination attempt is made to kill them by two gunmen..lucifer a rockstar it appears to have killed them both by simply clicking her finger…

lucifer is brought to court for murder( this can be easily defended as the gunmen tried to kill them all)..but lucifer kills the judge by the simple click again..

now she is put in prison with special handcuffs(unable to make click).before being sent to prison she asks laura to contact ananke….

laura meets luci in prison and luci briefly narrates laura how she is turned into a god by ananke…

laura sees two more gods baphomet and morrigan in an underground closed railway station in an atmosphere of mayhem…..

baal another god  makes arrangements for laura  to meet some of the rockstar gang members. during this meeting ananke tells laura that luci has broken all the rules given

by ananke so she wont help luci…

during this laura meets gods namely sahmet,minerva,and amaterasu…..

laura meets luci in the prison again and narrates …when luci learns none will come to her aid she gets furious and with the help of cigarette brought by laura she gets rid off her handcuffs and storms out of the prison creating choas blasting every obstacles made by the police force…despite laura’s protests…

rest of the gods like amaterasu, baal and sahmet try to allay the fury of luci but in vain. a mini war follows among them..

laura afraid for luci runs and gets the help of morrigan who comes at once and aids laura to get luci away from all this madness…

laura advises luci to keep low profile for sometime by staying with morrigan in the underground…

pleased by laura’s efforts luci gives last of her cigarettes to laura and as she tries to exit from the room she is killed by ananke….

laura  overhelmed with sorrow by luci’s death later realises luci gave her power of darkness in the form of cigarette….

end of voulme 1…

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i browsed  and found interesting facts about these gods’ names…

amaterasu….a japanese sun goddess…

baal….god of life and fertility..supreme god among  ancient cannan and phonecia..

sahmet..(sekmet )..a lion goddess in egyptian mythology..a warrior goddess

minerva..a roman goddess of wisdom,poetry…

inanna..a mesopatomian goddess of sexual love and also warfare..

morrigan…..phantom queen…an irish goddess ..actually 3 sisters under one name badb,macha,nemain…..her sacred birds are crows and ravens….she is a war goddess who influences the outcome of war…

lucifer….ofcourse the biblical figure ..the fallen angel ..rebellion angel…

baphomet …worshipped by knights of templars…french origin….medieval period..

ananke…supreme governor…mother of fates…exists even before the creation of cosmos, and controller of time, can decide the fate of humans and gods,,,,with limitless power…..

some more gods will be introduced in voulme 2…..

the drawings are mesmarising….