The Biblical Mythos That Inspired Head Wounds: Sparrow

What do you consider whenever you think about the angels of the Bible? Renaissance work of those divine beings pictured lovely, toga-clad creatures with wings like doves, however these depictions aren’t in step with many Biblical, Hebrew, and Islamic descriptions of Gods’ messengers.

“We’re talking wheels of fire,” Bob Johnson mentioned at an October 17 e book occasion at Barnes and Noble in New York City. “Eyes everywhere. Winged rings of animal heads.” Johnson is the creator of the brand new graphic novel, Head Wounds: Sparrow, a e book he developed alongside his childhood mates John Alvey and Oscar Isaac.

Head Wounds follows Leo Guidry, a unclean cop in New Orleans, as he makes an attempt to proper the wrongs he ought to have been capable of cease within the first place. But he doesn’t have a change of coronary heart all on his personal: It takes a divine intervention to persuade him to do good. That angel is Uriel, the apocryphal archangel, and I sat down with Johnson, Alvey, and Issac to debate this and a few of the e book’s different scriptural connections.

My very first query was asking in regards to the Pentecostal affect on this e book, which to me felt just like the Baptist’s fireplace and brimstone retribution. Johnson instantly responded that there was numerous that which influenced the e book; “I was raised Baptist and became ordained as a Southern Baptist minister when I was 23.” It was at seminary college the place he learn the apocryphal gospels. He needed the angels “to have a sense of authority to them.”

The creators additionally talked about that there could be different supernatural women and men exhibiting up if the e book will get a continuation. “This is Louisiana,” Johnson mentioned. “There’s hoodoo and witches on every corner.” He additionally talked about that the worldbuilding he’s accomplished included some “old gods” hanging round, just like the Leviathan, which he referred to as “Captain Levi,” and the one demon who was by no means an angel (by means of a clerical error in the course of the inscription of the bibles underneath Constantine’s watch), Orcus.

I requested how angels consider hope, and Johnson was positive they might be stuffed with it. “They’re walking empathy machines,” he mentioned. “I think if angels existed, they would probably be full of that shit. They would probably have hope coming out of their ears… and Demons too,” he mentioned, laughing. “They hope you get sick and that you fall down the stairs, and they hope your mom doesn’t love you.”

Head Wounds: Sparrow is obtainable now. The graphic novel was developed by Oscar Isaac by means of his manufacturing firm Mad Gene Media, and printed by Legendary Comics. It was written by Brian Buccellato, illustrated by Christian Ward, and created by Robert Johnson and John Alvey.

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