Graff-ic Novels

It is strange to me that I have been really into dark and gory graphic novels lately because I cant really handle real gore ever since I found a dead body in cope park with its head blown off my sophomore year in high school; an apparent suicide. So its weird to me that I not only can deal with, but I like glorified fantasy gore. I think it might be my way of coming to terms with that experience in a dissociative and fictional way. I even have a tattoo of one of my favorite artist's (Ashley Wood) version of the violator demon from a spawn recreation coming out of his human form on my shoulder. It depicts a human body splitting open with blood splattering everywhere and the demon looming out of the corpse only half emerged. Another thing I have always wondered about is why my own blood has never bothered me, but other people's injuries make me cringe. I have no theories to explain this. I have been really into Hellspawn, The Darkness, John Constantine Hellblazer, and all of the 30 days of night books. I have this fascination with hell and have been reading up on the Church of Satan and theistic satanism. Not to say that I agree with it all or that I am a satanist or theistic satanist, I just really enjoy the unique perspectives as entertainment value at least if not for practical life application. Some of it is really close to my own personal views on society though. I have been conceptualizing a graphic novel that I hope to put into action one day when my literary and artistic skills allow. It will be called "Demiurge." I am still developing ideas but so far it is set in the future after Armageddon and the final holy war between heaven and hell. At the end of the war god and Satan had fought hand to hand, and as a result killed each other off. This battle took place in heaven and the result of god and Satan clashing actually crumbles the heavens. So all that is left for settings in the graphic novel is the ruins of earth and the seven circles of hell. Satan is dead so rule of the seven circles of hell is left to the demon masters that oversaw their realms during the reign of Satan. I want to have each of the seven circles and their rulers based off one of each of the seven deadly sins. The gluttony circle will be for the damned gluttonous souls and the demon master of that realm will be all fat and nasty almost Jabba the Hut style and so on for the lust realm ect. There are a lot of comics that deal with battles between good and evil or heaven and hell so I needed to come up with a new angle to make it interesting and unique. I feel that having it set not during, but after the holy war is sufficient and creates a new vibe and sort of "now what" kind of hopeless futility that satisfies me and is perfect for the dark overall style of the book. I am happy with this premise since it holds this strange set of circumstances for the people who survived and still live on earth knowing that there is no chance for deliverance since heaven no longer exists. Basically it makes being good or believing in god pointless and impractical in the world that is left after the holy war. This leaves a futility that will fuel allegiances between Satan loyalists, converted Christians, and the powers that be on earth; the demons of hell will exchange seats of influence in hell once their souls descend for their loyalty to do their demonic bidding in what remains of earth. Earth will be a true breeding ground for sin, terror, mutilation, murder, mayhem, chaos, disease, and sadism ect. I still need to do some conceptualizing and development besides actually writing the dialogue, drawing the characters, frames and landscapes ect. Mainly I need to come up with the perfect protagonist, his power or influence, and his special relationship to earth and the seven circles. Stay tuned!