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Exodus: The Life After #1-5
The Life After, Vol. 3: Exodus
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Jude, the son of God (well, one of the sons, anyway) is trapped in Purgatory. Thankfully, he has friends on the outside: Nettie, a Victorian woman with unknown powers; her daughter Essie, commander of an army of unbaptized children; and the late, great Ernest Hemingway. On their journey to break Jude out of his interminable imprisonment, they run afoul of clockwork angels, celestial bureaucrats, and the Great Potato Himself. Can they overcome the very powers that be in order to free their friend and rewrite the system of the afterlife?
Jude, the son of God (well, one of the sons, anyway) is trapped in Purgatory. Thankfully, he has friends on the outside: Nettie, a Victorian woman with unknown powers; her daughter Essie, commander of an army of unbaptized children; and the late, great Ernest Hemingway. On their journey to break Jude out of his interminable imprisonment, they run afoul of clockwork angels, celestial bureaucrats, and the Great Potato Himself. Can they overcome the very powers that be in order to free their friend and rewrite the system of the afterlife?
136 pages, Paperback
First published August 2, 2016
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About the author
Joshua Hale Fialkov
445 books140 followersJoshua Hale Fialkov is the creator (or co-creator, depending) of graphic novels, including the Harvey Nominated Elk’s Run, the Harvey and Eisner nominated Tumor, Punks the Comic, and the Harvey Nominated Echoes.
He has written Alibi and Cyblade for Top Cow, Superman/Batman for DC Comics, Rampaging Wolverine for Marvel, and Friday the 13th for Wildstorm. He’s writing the DC relaunch of I,Vampire, as well as debuting the new Marvel character The Monkey King. This fall sees the launch of The Last of the Greats from Image Comics with artist Brent Peeples.
He also served as a writer on the Emmy Award Nominated animated film Afro Samurai: Resurrection, and as Executive Producer of the cult hit LG15: The Resistance web series.
Elk’s Run, Tumor, and Alibi are all currently in development as feature films. He has written comics for companies including Marvel, Wildstorm, IDW, Dark Horse, Image, Tor Books, Seven Seas Entertainment, Del Rey, Random House, Dabel Brothers Productions, and St. Martin’s Press. He has done video game work for THQ, Midway Entertainment, and Gore Verbinski’s Blind Wink Productions. He also wrote a Sci-Fi Channel movie starring Isabella Rossellini and Judd Nelson. Unfortunately, at no point in the film does Judd Nelson punch the sky and freeze frame. Joshua grew up in Pittsburgh, PA, went to college in Boston, where he got a BFA in writing and directing for the stage and screen, and then worked in the New England film industry, until finally deciding to move to Los Angeles to do it properly. He lives with his wife, Christina, daughter, Gable, and their cats, Smokey and the Bandit.
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/joshfialkov
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/joshuahalefia...
Photograph by Heidi Ryder Photography
He has written Alibi and Cyblade for Top Cow, Superman/Batman for DC Comics, Rampaging Wolverine for Marvel, and Friday the 13th for Wildstorm. He’s writing the DC relaunch of I,Vampire, as well as debuting the new Marvel character The Monkey King. This fall sees the launch of The Last of the Greats from Image Comics with artist Brent Peeples.
He also served as a writer on the Emmy Award Nominated animated film Afro Samurai: Resurrection, and as Executive Producer of the cult hit LG15: The Resistance web series.
Elk’s Run, Tumor, and Alibi are all currently in development as feature films. He has written comics for companies including Marvel, Wildstorm, IDW, Dark Horse, Image, Tor Books, Seven Seas Entertainment, Del Rey, Random House, Dabel Brothers Productions, and St. Martin’s Press. He has done video game work for THQ, Midway Entertainment, and Gore Verbinski’s Blind Wink Productions. He also wrote a Sci-Fi Channel movie starring Isabella Rossellini and Judd Nelson. Unfortunately, at no point in the film does Judd Nelson punch the sky and freeze frame. Joshua grew up in Pittsburgh, PA, went to college in Boston, where he got a BFA in writing and directing for the stage and screen, and then worked in the New England film industry, until finally deciding to move to Los Angeles to do it properly. He lives with his wife, Christina, daughter, Gable, and their cats, Smokey and the Bandit.
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/joshfialkov
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/joshuahalefia...
Photograph by Heidi Ryder Photography
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Displaying 1 - 4 of 4 reviews
June 21, 2019
A lot of this feels like it's been made up on the fly, but that's sort of fitting given Fialkov's view of God and the inner workings of the universe (at least as it is displayed in this comic--who know what he really things?). I just wish there was a bit more uniformity to things, some inner logic to the story. But I'm hooked. The artwork by Gabo is amazing and just the right level of cartoony for this particular story. Looking forward to what comes next.
February 11, 2021
Excellent, first time in a while I've wanted to keep reading something all the way through, straight through
June 17, 2016
Very entertaining look at the life after with Hemmingway, demons and some pretty flummoxed bureaucrats. Hail the great Potato!!
May 1, 2017
Joke's on me, I had totally picked up this third volume and left it in a stack separate from the first two. Hooray for surprise comics!
Anyhow, the adventures of our little band of heroes continue in this volume. Hemingway continues to be the best part, though I don't know how much I trust Fialkov's taste in literature if his feelings reflect the Great Potato's - Hemingway was a fine writer, but he wasn't anywhere near the realm of Vonnegut.
ANYWAY. I thought it was all wrapping up nicely, but then the last two pages introduce a conspiratorial little group determined to overthrow world order as we know it . . . rude. Guess I'm gonna have to hang on until the next volume. Gabo's art is growing on me, at least.
Anyhow, the adventures of our little band of heroes continue in this volume. Hemingway continues to be the best part, though I don't know how much I trust Fialkov's taste in literature if his feelings reflect the Great Potato's - Hemingway was a fine writer, but he wasn't anywhere near the realm of Vonnegut.
ANYWAY. I thought it was all wrapping up nicely, but then the last two pages introduce a conspiratorial little group determined to overthrow world order as we know it . . . rude. Guess I'm gonna have to hang on until the next volume. Gabo's art is growing on me, at least.
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