#WicDIv

[wicdiv]

As part of the Wicked + the Divine: The Covers Version we promised finally doing a Sakhmet cover to finish the set.

Here it is.

Jamie and Matt did her proud.

You can still pre-order a copy of it here.

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Characters, book, and author names under the cut

Cassandra Igarashi/Laura Wilson - The Wicked+the Divine by Kieron Gillen

Sam Becker/Jonathan Forest - 10 Things That Never Happened by Alexis Hall

Henry de Lyon/Ian mac Maíl Coluim - The Scottish Boy by Alex de Campi

Gideon Nav/Harrowhark Nonagesimus- The Locked Tomb by Tamsyn Muir

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The Morrigan by Kevin Wada

[tbcanary]

Edit Requests: Persephone from The Wicked + The Divine for @magictavern

"What do we do now?" "Whatever we want."

(ID under the cut.)

ID: Five edited panels of Laura (Persephone) from The Wicked + The Divine comics.

1: Persephone is suspended mid-air from her glowing blue vines. She’s arched in a C shape in front of a background of pink flowers.

2: Persephone stands in a hooded jacket with her arms thrown outward. Blue text appears in front of her: “Laura.” The letters then shuffle randomly and change to “Persephone.” The letters shuffle a third time and change to “The Destroyer.”

3: A background with a black, pink and white radial gradient, covered fully with the story of Persephone’s creation. Laura, dressed in her Amaterasu costume, stands off to the left side. She fades, and a second image of her appears slightly to the right with a curly undercut and a green jacket. That image fades to gray and a third appears of her in her initial Persephone costume, with the colorful streak in her combed-over hair and a red triangle drawn over one eye. The third image fades to gray and a fourth appears fully to the right side, showing Persephone with her hand held up and her jacket splayed out. She has white skulls in place of her pupils.

4: Persephone, in distorted white and black with blue accents. She lights a cigarette. Three circles with skulls in the center hover in front of her.

5: Laura, with a shaved head, stands with her mouth open and her arms outstretched. Her blue vines spread out from behind her, backlit by pink. Text on either side of her head reads: “I am a God.” The image flashes, turning the vines black and white. The word “Not” appears over Laura’s eyes, on top of a black scribbled stripe.

/End ID.

[pulsingvoid]

close enough. welcome back the wicked + the divine

[kierongillen]

This week's newsletter! The Sakmet Headshot and pre-orders for WicDiv: The Covers Version! Update on The Power Fantasy releases! More We Called Them Giants preview! My Lazy Person's Guide to gaming Duolingo!

[theluciferswar]

Lucifers VS Lucifers : Round 3

Propaganda under the cut

Lucifer (Obey Me !)

He's the real ex-angel Lucifer except him and his brothers fell cause God wanted to delete their sister from existence for feeding a human she had fallen in love with angel food to save him. God. Wanted to get rid. Of his sister. For saving a human.

So he did war about it, and lost, and now he's a demon with stress and a homoerotic bond with the Lord of the Devildom and 6 unruly little brothers which are the other avatars of sin.

He's like a middle aged single father and he needs a break I stg. He's getting grey hairs! Some of those are caused by the MC also! Because they're a little shit sometimes! Also he's hot. Wears glasses sometimes. I think they should actually salt and pepper his hair but no one listens to me and my huge brain. Give him wrinkles also. I know hes an ageless being but I want hot middle aged men and not just more twinks.

Sorry that's unrelated op my bad. Anyways his family is chaotic but he still loves them deeply despite it all.

Lucifer (WicDiv)

Luci is the heart of WicDiv. It's a book about her. Or, more accurately, it's a book about her death. She's an irreverant hedonist, a lonely teenager thrust into stardom, and, above all else, the Devil Incarnate.

WicDiv is incredible, a masterpiece of indie comics, and all about 12 teenagers (mostly 18-19yos) who incarnate as gods - they will be loved, they will be hated, within two years they will be dead...and Lucifer is the first to die, though she does it before her time.

SPOILERS, but she gets better, and the ending is incredible - they all announce that they're giving up their godhood to end the cycle / save everything, and Lucifer goes last, and follows the same, "I'm not a god..." format, only to go, "...I've never been a god. I'm Lucifer." And it's iconic. And the scene that follows it up, where "Persephone" goes to rescue her - "there were two girls in hell" ??? incredible.

Also, in universe after her death, people started wearing Lucifer Died For Our Sins t-shirts, and they started selling them as real shirts, and I think it's fucking hilarious. https://wicdiv.threadless.com/designs/lucifer-died-for-our-sins-dark/mens/t-shirt

[incorrectwicdivquotes]

Cassandra: We need water. Baphomet: Humans can go days without water, so relax. Cassandra: That is one hundred percent not true! Baphomet: Oh yeah? How long then? Cassandra: I don't know! 19 hours? Baphomet: 19 hours?! I've slept 19 hours without water you idiot! Cassandra: WHO SLEEPS THAT LONG?! Baphomet: I HAD A BAD DAY!

[shiroikabocha]

you know a cool thing about the first issue of The Wicked + The Divine? We don’t learn the name Lucifer was born with until waaaay later, but there are just enough hints scattered throughout issue 1 to make a pretty good guess. (apologies for shitty phone photos under the cut, my scanner is busted)

So we meet some gods. And Lucifer does that “oOh I have mAnY nAmES ;)” thing that Lucifers are wont to do

We learn that all these characters have human histories. Cassandra tells us right off the bat that Amaterasu was born Hazel Greenway.

Lucifer returns to the subject of names, identities, and the uncertainty surrounding them a few times, calling attention to it as a running theme—without revealing her own birth name.

(Luci’s being kind of a dick right here, isn’t she? At least she apologizes for it later.)

In the courtroom, we learn that Luci’s legal surname is Rigby, confirming that she’s got a birth certificate name in addition to the divine stage name, just like Amaterasu does.

We don’t yet know her first name… but she did tell Laura that she was “brought up on The Beatles,” and then she expresses some distinctly un-Luciferian embarrassment about her parents before quickly changing the subject.

Luci, is there any chance that the “long story” is actually a pretty short one? That Mr. and Mrs. Rigby bestowed upon their baby girl the absolute stupidest name they could have chosen, one that would condemn her to a lifetime of “What? No, seriously? Are you for real right now?” A name that she would happily shuck at the first opportunity, even if it meant turning into Satan? (Maybe especially if it meant turning into Satan.)

BUT WAIT! There’s more!

Everybody knows that “Lucifer” means “Lightbringer,” but did you know that there’s a popular girls’ name that also means “shining light”?

Do you wanna know what that name is?

That’s right, it’s ELEANOR. Nominative determinism’s a bitch!

[heyitspizzaking]

Persephone

The Wicked + The Divine

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The Wicked + the Divine #1 - 10 Years Later

The Wicked + the Divine #1 - 10 Years Later. Sometimes, the things that were great a decade ago are still great #comics #comicbooks

“And every demon wants his pound of flesh.”–Florence + the Machine “Forgot that inside the icon, there’s still a young girl from Essex.”–Lorde Until I read Kieron Gillen’s newsletter last week, I couldn’t believe that it had been ten years since The Wicked + the Divine was released and basically changed my life. It, and Gillen and artist Jamie McKelvie’s other collaboration Phonogram,…

[wicdiv]

As it's the 10 year anniversary (eek!) of WicDiv, we wanted to do something to celebrate. And so - a kickstarter for a coffeebook of all the covers, plus extras. It'll launch properly next week, so sign up for your reminder.

More details in this week's newsletter from Kieron.

[perseph]

Watching a playthough of Stray Gods, which is a musical RPG about reincarnated gods caught up in a murder mystery. Sound familiar? It's not really that similar to WicDiv, but I have noticed a few interesting parallels....

Yes, these characters are both Persephone

[sir-libearian]

I don't have time, but goldan age of piracy recurrence would be fascinating.

[xanthezhou]

I am the true Adversary. I know my fate.

Lucifer in The Wicked + The Divine 1373

[lady-of-the-spirit]

Happy international women's month to this scene specifically. (ID in alt text)