Oscar Isaac’s Head Wounds: Sparrow Shows a Bad Cop in Spiritual Crisis

During his highlight at New York Comic Con, Oscar Isaac introduced on stage a few his inventive collaborators: illustrator Christian Ward and author Brian Buccellato. The three teamed up final 12 months to assist deliver Head Wounds: Sparrow to life through Kickstarter, in collaboration with Legendary Comics.

Head Wounds follows Leo, a crooked ex-cop who has wounds that no one else can see. He has to seek out the individuals who have the damage in the actual world and assist them get justice. As he does, so he will get caught up in a conflict between good and evil, coping with angels and a really Christian mythology that begins to really feel extra like a curse than a blessing.

When requested why he’s drawn to comedian books, Isaac stated that he connects to how “humans have always explored really complex ideas through myth and abstractions. And sometimes you’re able to speak more deeply the more you abstract, because you can make much more emotional parallels to things as opposed to just so literal. It’s a spiritual analogy.”

Ward stated that whereas he’s probably not recognized for the sort of gritty story that they have been asking him to do, he was impressed by the characters. “You have to connect to the characters. You have to love them,” he stated on the panel. “Once you have that in mind you can start building. You use their viewpoints as a foundation.”

Isaac was requested what it was about ‘70s crime drama and movie noir that he admires. “It marked the rise of the antihero in popular cinema,” Isaac stated. “Films like Taxi Driver, Serpico, these gritty, realistic stories speak to a disaffected kind of feeling. A disillusionment… it’s an interesting base to go back to, especially when you’re dealing with something that’s much more esoteric and spiritual, like Head Wounds does.”

When requested what the workforce is happy for readers to expertise, Isaac stated that he can’t wait to see individuals get a brand new have a look at the revisionary Judeo-Christian mythology that the guide offers with. “We deal with angels and demons, but in a very unique way, I think,” he stated. “But the heart remains a deeply true feeling of wrestling with something inside of you that nobody else can see.” Ward says that he’s excited for readers to expertise the story itself, because it “goes places that readers won’t expect.” Buccellato can’t look forward to readers to get to know Leo. “He’s a wounded person himself. Bad Lieutenant was a reference point. Starting in such a bad and terrible place gives him a long way to go in order to dig himself out.”

Head Wounds: Sparrow is printed by Legendary Comics and is on the market now.

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