{"id":9939,"date":"2008-10-29T21:52:40","date_gmt":"2008-10-29T20:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicbox.com\/?p=9939"},"modified":"2008-10-29T21:52:40","modified_gmt":"2008-10-29T20:52:40","slug":"violent-messiahs-the-book-of-job-back-to-bookshelves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicbox.com\/index.php\/news-english\/violent-messiahs-the-book-of-job-back-to-bookshelves\/","title":{"rendered":"Violent Messiahs: The Book Of Job Back To Bookshelves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.comicbox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/violentm.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"9940\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.comicbox.com\/index.php\/news-english\/violent-messiahs-the-book-of-job-back-to-bookshelves\/attachment\/violentm\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.comicbox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/violentm.jpg?fit=288%2C397&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"288,397\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"violentm\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.comicbox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/violentm.jpg?fit=288%2C397&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-9940\" style=\"margin-left: 4px; margin-right: 4px; border: black 1px solid;\" title=\"Violent Messiahs\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.comicbox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/violentm.jpg?resize=150%2C150\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>[ENGLISH] <strong>IDW tells us:<\/strong> Following a highly successful run, rendering the book out of print, IDW Publishing heralds in the long awaited return of Hurricane Entertainment\u2019s Violent Messiahs: The Book of Job. It tells a complex and layered tale about the fictional city of Rankor Island and the cops, killers, and vigilantes who inhabit it. It will be followed in December by Volume II\u2014Violent Messiahs: Lamenting Pain. This installment collects the second story arc &#8211; a brand-new, never-before-seen Citizen Pain<!--more-->\u00a0story, as well as other bonus materials.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Created by acclaimed writer Joshua Dysart (Unknown Soldier, Hellboy &#8211; BPRD:1946) and William O\u2019Neill (John Carpenter\u2019s Snake Plissken Chronicles), Violent Messiahs is scripted by Dysart with dynamic artwork by Tone Rodriguez (Snake Plissken, Urban Monsters) and hyper-realistic coloring by Travis Smith (Slayer, Resident Evil: Apocalypse).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00ab\u00a0This was my first comic book ever, and it has all the joys that come with a first work,\u201d Dysart says.\u00a0 \u201cWritten between jobs in restaurants and bookstores, during a period of tumultuous relationships and, quite frankly, a lot of drug use, it seems now, in retrospect, to be the very spirit of my youth, that is, angry, dark, glorious, ambitious, cocky and ultimately, hungry to be about something greater than itself.\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0 Subsequently Dysart has written for every major publisher in the comics industry, on such luminary titles as Swamp Thing, The Age of Conan and Hellboy: BPRD 1946.\u00a0 He\u2019s adapted Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Deepak Chopra\u2019s Buddha.\u00a0 He\u2019s written Avril Lavigne\u2019s &#8211; Make 5 Wishes and for his most recent project Unknown Soldier Dysart spent a month researching in Uganda.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Beyond the masked men, cops with checkered pasts, and trappings of crime, Violent Messiahs takes an unflinching look at some of life\u2019s most fundamental questions. As a film-noir, urban retelling of \u201cFrankenstein\u201d crossbred with \u201cBeauty and the Beast\u201d it delves even further into the ideas of social control, \u201cheroism\u201d, and violence. It also takes a unique look at theology, while combining sci-fi elements like indestructible clones and dark conspiracies. The story takes a genre- bending look at some of our most basic human flaws.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the center of the story is Lieutenant Cheri Major, a woman obsessed with doing away with crime and the two killers plaguing her city. Yet each of the two men serve a seemingly higher purpose, the stitch-masked vigilante \u201cCitizen Pain,\u201d who murders criminals and, the serial killer \u201cFamily Man\u201d, who slaughters parents he deems \u201cunfit.\u201d But what Cheri doesn\u2019t know is the link between these two and the secret society they represent. Yet while one is an outcast and the other an agent of this megalomaniacal cabal, both are ultimately serving their programming and searching for their true selves.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">O\u2019Neill dreamt up Citizen Pain in a small sketch book, while in art school over 15 years ago.\u00a0 \u201cCitizen Pain has been with me for a long time.\u00a0 IDW is an excellent company and they print some of the best books out today.\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t be more thrilled that they are the new home for Violent Messiahs.\u00a0 With The Dark Knight and The Watchmen in the public mind there couldn\u2019t be a better time to reintroduce our Warrior Poet to the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nominated for a Harvey Award, Wizard Fan Award, and the prestigious Eisner\u2019s Russ Manning Award the graphically compelling and poetic, Violent Messiahs: The Book of Job is a strange and twisted look at morality and the complex role of violence in our lives.\u00a0 The book is a thoughtful commentary on the ability of the individual to create their own reality and ultimately be redeemed by love.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Violent Messiahs: The Book of Job hits shelves in October 2008.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">TPB \u2022 FC \u2022 224 pages \u2022 6.625\u201d x 10.187\u201d\u2022\u00a0 $24.99 \u2022 ISBN: 978-1-60010-251-6<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">About IDW<br \/>\nIDW is an award-winning publisher of comic books, graphic novels and trade paperbacks, based in San Diego, Calif. As a leader in the horror, action, and sci-fi genres, IDW publishes some of the most successful and popular titles in the industry including: television&rsquo;s #1 prime time series CBS&rsquo; CSI: Crime Scene Investigation; Paramount&rsquo;s Star Trek; Fox&rsquo;s Angel; Hasbro&rsquo;s The Transformers, and the BBC&rsquo;s Doctor Who. IDW&rsquo;s original horror series, 30 Days of Night, was launched as a major motion picture in October 2007 by Sony Pictures and was the #1 film in its first week of release. In April 2008, IDW released Michael Recycle, the first title from its new children&rsquo;s book imprint, Worthwhile Books. More information about the company can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idwpublishing.com\">http:\/\/www.idwpublishing.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ENGLISH] IDW tells us: Following a highly successful run, rendering the book out of print, IDW Publishing heralds in 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