The Faust Act
by:
Kieron Gillen (author)
Jamie McKelvie (illustrator)
Every ninety years, twelve gods incarnate as humans. They are loved. They are hated. In two years, they are dead. The team behind critically thermonuclear floor-fillers Young Avengers and Phonogram reunite to start a new, ongoing, superhero fantasy with a beautiful, oversized issue. Welcome to...
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Every ninety years, twelve gods incarnate as humans. They are loved. They are hated. In two years, they are dead. The team behind critically thermonuclear floor-fillers Young Avengers and Phonogram reunite to start a new, ongoing, superhero fantasy with a beautiful, oversized issue. Welcome to The Wicked + The Divine, where gods are the ultimate pop stars and pop stars are the ultimate gods. But remember: just because you're immortal, doesn't mean you're going to live forever. Collects The Wicked + The Divine #1-5.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781632150196 (1632150190)
Publish date: 2016
Publisher: Image Comics
Pages no: 144
Edition language: English
Series: The Wicked + The Divine (#1)
Laura is obsessed with these pop stars who happen to be Gods reincarnated. The Gods come back every 90 years but do not hang around for long because they tend to die young. Some people love the Gods others think they are a nuisance or fraud. There is a murder, Lucifer aka Luci is framed and sent to ...
The premise behind this comic collection is that gods can appear on Earth for two years with powers which they use usually for their own ends before they die. In this first volume, they tend to appear as music/rock stars in London. The plot is about murder and trying to find out which of the gods is...
Well, it's literally perfect in all of the ways. It's just, I… didn't really relate to the characters? At all? It's all cool to read, but yeah, I didn't relate to the protagonist, or to any god except Sakhmet obviously. So, this is really good, but I don't know if I'm going to read the next volume.
Every 90 years the gods come back and they have two years to live and to be loved.
Every ninety years, the gods come back. For up to two years, they were will loved. They will be hated. And then they will be dead. I really enjoyed this book. A collection of the first five comics in The Wicked + The Divine, The Faust Act introduces us to our protagonist, fangirl Laura. Through he...
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