Hey there, folks!
See, I told you I wasn't gonna keep this place updated, didn't I? Actually, I wanted to scan and upload some concept art for the series but another project kept me too busy and, since I'm only working on New Religion in my free time, I get to sit down and write a bit.
Anyway, I'm fascinated by titles. Not the nobility ones, mind you, but the ones that get to name stuff. Especially when it comes to art, I just love knowing the name of this or that painting, sculpture, album, etc. And, of course, comicbooks are not exception.
New Religion (the title) was born as most titles are when I'm working on a project: As a working title. It made sense, if you ask me, since it was born straight out of the premise (which is: "a couple fallen angels trying to start a new religion" - I guess I could have used "couple fallen angels" but I didn't like the way it sounded).
Of course, being a working title, I wasn't satisfied with it, and thought I'd sit down and change it somewhere down the line (which I did, but I was drunk while doing it, forgot to write down the amazing names I came up with and forgot all about them the next morning). After a while, I thought about it some more and got to the point where I started to wonder: "Why bother?". It was around that same time that I started playing with the idea of giving each chapter (which we could also call "issue", since I'm writing this one as if it was a serialized north american comicbook, with chapters of 20-22 pages) the name of a song or an album and, since "New Religion" is the name of at least a song and an album (for the record, as much as I love Primal Fear, I fucking hate that album in general and that song in particular), I kept thinking "Why bother?" and left it there. See, lazyness always wins :p
Anyway, speaking of titles, some titles that will probably be featured in the first chapters (minor spoilers?):
Faith and fire
Everyday I love you less and less
Gambling with the devil
I give up on loving you
Mysterious ways
Gee baby, ain't I good to you?
Deal with the devil
Everybody thinks you're an angel
Tell me why
You don't know me
Caught in the middle
What kind of god?
And a couple more that I don't wanna give away yet. Please keep in mind a couple things: I don't like all those songs (I fucking loathe Mysterious ways, for example), some titles were translated to english (to keep things consistant) and, more importantly, I'm using these as devices or tools (in other words, the titles won't influence the story, they're just titles).
And I think that's all for now, thanks for reading!
Victor
