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Faithless (collected editions) #1-3
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An erotic depiction of faith, sex, and the devil in the tradition of the divine comedy.
Faith likes to dabble with magic. Her friends think it’s cute—if not a little off-putting—but it’s part of her charm and warped sense of purpose in a world that makes too much sense. Faith’s a true believer and knows there’s power within her reach, but it took a while for that magic and temptation to find her.
That temptation? His name is Louis and with his guidance Faith embarks on a journey deep into the exclusive art world… with hellish consequences.
New York Times bestselling writer Brian Azzarello (100 Bullets, Moonshine) and artist Maria Llovet (Loud) coalesce in a story of sexual and magical awakenings, and maybe even love. The hit trilogy of graphic novels is collected under in one complete volume for the first time and features a series of explicit erotic covers by superstar artists Tula Lotay, Kris Anka, Jenny Frison, Becky Cloonan, Vanesa del Rey, and Dani.
Collects Faithless, Faithless II, and Faithless III.
Faith likes to dabble with magic. Her friends think it’s cute—if not a little off-putting—but it’s part of her charm and warped sense of purpose in a world that makes too much sense. Faith’s a true believer and knows there’s power within her reach, but it took a while for that magic and temptation to find her.
That temptation? His name is Louis and with his guidance Faith embarks on a journey deep into the exclusive art world… with hellish consequences.
New York Times bestselling writer Brian Azzarello (100 Bullets, Moonshine) and artist Maria Llovet (Loud) coalesce in a story of sexual and magical awakenings, and maybe even love. The hit trilogy of graphic novels is collected under in one complete volume for the first time and features a series of explicit erotic covers by superstar artists Tula Lotay, Kris Anka, Jenny Frison, Becky Cloonan, Vanesa del Rey, and Dani.
Collects Faithless, Faithless II, and Faithless III.
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487 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 6, 2023
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About the author
Brian Azzarello
1,288 books1,105 followersBrian Azzarello (born in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American comic book writer. He came to prominence with 100 Bullets, published by DC Comics' mature-audience imprint Vertigo. He and Argentine artist Eduardo Risso, with whom Azzarello first worked on Jonny Double, won the 2001 Eisner Award for Best Serialized Story for 100 Bullets #15–18: "Hang Up on the Hang Low".
Azzarello has written for Batman ("Broken City", art by Risso; "Batman/Deathblow: After the Fire", art by Lee Bermejo, Tim Bradstreet, & Mick Gray) and Superman ("For Tomorrow", art by Jim Lee).
In 2005, Azzarello began a new creator-owned series, the western Loveless, with artist Marcelo Frusin.
As of 2007, Azzarello is married to fellow comic-book writer and illustrator Jill Thompson.
information taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Az...
Azzarello has written for Batman ("Broken City", art by Risso; "Batman/Deathblow: After the Fire", art by Lee Bermejo, Tim Bradstreet, & Mick Gray) and Superman ("For Tomorrow", art by Jim Lee).
In 2005, Azzarello began a new creator-owned series, the western Loveless, with artist Marcelo Frusin.
As of 2007, Azzarello is married to fellow comic-book writer and illustrator Jill Thompson.
information taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Az...
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December 13, 2023
(Zero spoiler review)
A confession: I like to hoard books that I think I will love. Intermittently pulling them off the shelf ever so occasionally, so as to measure out their apparent magnificence in careful quantities. After all, you don't wanna burn through all those would be favourites too quickly. leaving you with a whole lot of mid for the rest of your life. And I'd been on a bit of a mid-streak of late, that's for sure. But for some reason, Faithless was meant to be different. Despite not knowing a thing about this series, I had decided in my head that this was going to be amazing. This was one of those books I was hoarding for a rainy day. And as you can see for from the score, the day not only kept raining, but a category 5 hurricane of faeces and sadness followed in it's wake. This may just be the biggest disappointment I've read all year, possibly ever. And 100 Bullets (also written by Azarello) is one of my favourite comics runs of all time.
Never, and I mean never have I read a story where everyone, and I do mean EVERYONE, is a reprehensible, vile, horrendous excuse for a human being. Now, whilst to some extent, this may be intentional. but it doesn't make the reading experience any better. You're meant to love to hate bad/evil/nasty characters, not despise every second they spend on the page. Wanting to gouge your eyes out with rusty pet food lids rather than look at them for another second. Yet every character in Faithless prompts perhaps an even stronger reaction than that in me. I loathe them as I loathe pretty much every other thing about this book, with the possible exception of the art, which may have worked in a better story, but here its dragged down into the mire amidst this turgid and galling writing. This story is six issues worth of narrative, max! Quite how or why it was dragged out to 18 is beyond me. There are glaciers on heroin who move faster than this crap. Snails on holiday are greased lightning by comparison. Once every handful of issues, you get a hint that something (other than painfully existing amongst the human detritus called characters) may be happening, but it's dragged out, and dragged out, and dragged out. Its way too long and way too crap. Half this book is literally people having sex with each other, and it's still awful.
I hate it, I wish I never bought it, and I don't want to talk about it anymore. Avoid as if your life depends on it. 1/5
OmniBen.
A confession: I like to hoard books that I think I will love. Intermittently pulling them off the shelf ever so occasionally, so as to measure out their apparent magnificence in careful quantities. After all, you don't wanna burn through all those would be favourites too quickly. leaving you with a whole lot of mid for the rest of your life. And I'd been on a bit of a mid-streak of late, that's for sure. But for some reason, Faithless was meant to be different. Despite not knowing a thing about this series, I had decided in my head that this was going to be amazing. This was one of those books I was hoarding for a rainy day. And as you can see for from the score, the day not only kept raining, but a category 5 hurricane of faeces and sadness followed in it's wake. This may just be the biggest disappointment I've read all year, possibly ever. And 100 Bullets (also written by Azarello) is one of my favourite comics runs of all time.
Never, and I mean never have I read a story where everyone, and I do mean EVERYONE, is a reprehensible, vile, horrendous excuse for a human being. Now, whilst to some extent, this may be intentional. but it doesn't make the reading experience any better. You're meant to love to hate bad/evil/nasty characters, not despise every second they spend on the page. Wanting to gouge your eyes out with rusty pet food lids rather than look at them for another second. Yet every character in Faithless prompts perhaps an even stronger reaction than that in me. I loathe them as I loathe pretty much every other thing about this book, with the possible exception of the art, which may have worked in a better story, but here its dragged down into the mire amidst this turgid and galling writing. This story is six issues worth of narrative, max! Quite how or why it was dragged out to 18 is beyond me. There are glaciers on heroin who move faster than this crap. Snails on holiday are greased lightning by comparison. Once every handful of issues, you get a hint that something (other than painfully existing amongst the human detritus called characters) may be happening, but it's dragged out, and dragged out, and dragged out. Its way too long and way too crap. Half this book is literally people having sex with each other, and it's still awful.
I hate it, I wish I never bought it, and I don't want to talk about it anymore. Avoid as if your life depends on it. 1/5
OmniBen.
January 19, 2024
Hard to put into words but taken as a whole it is a work of art.
August 26, 2023
Wow this was absolutely incredible. By far the best thing I've read this year.
August 5, 2024
Faithless se nehodnotí snadno, má to své mouchy, ale docela jsem si to užil. Před rokem jsem četl první paperback a ten mě zaujal natolik, že jsem chtěl více. Celý příběh je o mladé dívce jménem Faith. Je to horor, či spíše městská fantasy, se spoustou erotiky. Odmítám to nazvat pornem, protože to není jen o sexu. Faith je absolventka umělecké školy a trošku koketuje s magií. Sama ale netuší, že skutečně nějakou schopností disponuje. Možná právě díky tomu se dostane do VIP uměleckých kruhů, a toto prostředí ji naprosto okouzlí a pohltí. Když si uvědomí, s jakou společností se zapletla, tak už je příliš pozdě vzít roha. Navíc vlastně ani nechce. Asi nejvíce přiblíží styl příběhu to, když prozradím, že zde nechybí Lucifer Sandmanovského střihu. Je to charismatický chlap, ale už od pohledu extrémně nebezpečný. Nechybí zde spousta biblických odkazů, ale hlavními tématy jsou zde sex, uspokojení a umění. Má to příjemnou atmosféru, která kompenzuje to, že je děj poněkud natahovaný. Explicitní erotické hrátky jsou proložené diskusemi o umění a jeho samotnou tvorbou, nějakou tou magií a čas od času nějakou mrtvolou. Ke konci se atmosféra proměňuje a na důležitosti nabírají debaty o povaze umění a svobodné vůli. V tom už jsem se trošku ztrácel a zanechalo to ve mě lehký pocit nenaplnění. Postupně mi ale docházejí některé detaily a věřím, že při příštím čtení to bude lepší.
Co se týká kresby Marie Llovet, tak za mě ta k příběhu dokonale sedí. Zpočátku jsem měl problém s obličeji, které se mi často nelíbily, a to se vlastně až do konce knihy moc nezměnilo. Celkově je ale kresba pěkná a živočišná. Llovet je jednou z mála současných mainstreamových autorů, kteří se pravidelně do erotických komiksů pouštějí a nebojí se být explicitní. Zajímavé je v tomto komiksu ztvárnění pekla a jeho démonů. Vidím v tom velkou inspiraci Hieronymem Boschem a jeho Zahradou pozemských rozkoší. To se mi líbí a k obsahu komiksu to dokonale sedí.
Co se týká kresby Marie Llovet, tak za mě ta k příběhu dokonale sedí. Zpočátku jsem měl problém s obličeji, které se mi často nelíbily, a to se vlastně až do konce knihy moc nezměnilo. Celkově je ale kresba pěkná a živočišná. Llovet je jednou z mála současných mainstreamových autorů, kteří se pravidelně do erotických komiksů pouštějí a nebojí se být explicitní. Zajímavé je v tomto komiksu ztvárnění pekla a jeho démonů. Vidím v tom velkou inspiraci Hieronymem Boschem a jeho Zahradou pozemských rozkoší. To se mi líbí a k obsahu komiksu to dokonale sedí.
June 12, 2024
Very disturbing and not in a good way, avoid this like the plague.
I thought I'd try a more mature comic, so I grabbed the deluxe edition of this. I was expecting some spicy scenes and mature themes, but this book makes a point of showing the most immoral and messed up scenes, without it making any sense.
There is the story of the bible hidden very deep in here, but that part of the story doesn't need to be told in 18 issues. And among those 18 issues you have story worth of maybe 4 and the rest is just a morbid acid trip.
The art is ... muddy, not very clear and kind of ugly. Also it's very distracting to have the artist put their signature on every single page.
This is the first book out of 171 I've given a 1 star rating since I've started tracking my reads on here. Take that as a warning.
I thought I'd try a more mature comic, so I grabbed the deluxe edition of this. I was expecting some spicy scenes and mature themes, but this book makes a point of showing the most immoral and messed up scenes, without it making any sense.
There is the story of the bible hidden very deep in here, but that part of the story doesn't need to be told in 18 issues. And among those 18 issues you have story worth of maybe 4 and the rest is just a morbid acid trip.
The art is ... muddy, not very clear and kind of ugly. Also it's very distracting to have the artist put their signature on every single page.
This is the first book out of 171 I've given a 1 star rating since I've started tracking my reads on here. Take that as a warning.
April 24, 2025
Finally read faithless.
I had to wait until I *almost* forgot most of the two preceding volumes to finally read it whole, and Lord, it was worth it.
It’s a blasphemous satire of love, art, religion, reality, free well, expectations; it’s also very much a mournfully erotic unrequited love story.
It mixes transgressive, decadent, popism, aestheticism into a Molotov cocktail of dizzying sights and emotions that you can’t help but to wonder if they were sincere or a subservience; either way, it was a heady read that I enjoyed being consumed by it, and not the other way around. Brain made a scandalous story and Marie transcended it into a vision.
By far, the best graphic novel I read this year. And very much highly recommended.
January 19, 2024
Faith is an artist and a little witchy. She meets Poppy and they hit it off. They become each other’s muses. Faith meets Solomon and Luis and they move through the art world. This is definitely a crazy journey, but I’m glad I have read the whole journey. The art style was crazy and I really enjoyed, if that’s the right word, this insane tale.
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