Final Project Blurb

A bisexual Palestinian woman fights to find vitality. A Latino male struggles to save the souls of a broken world. A youthful computer hacker battles depression as he fights for love before his imminent demise. These are the players in the final installment of Alpha/Omega. For thousands of years, these three have been brought together to peacefully destroy evil through the guidance of God. With their last mission approaching, the sting of a thousand years of fear, lost love, and uncertainly plague their every breath. History knows them as Mary Magdalene, Jesus Christ, and John the Baptist. Who they really are stands in question as they struggle to understand their destinies outside of these holy confines. Set in a near-future post-political upheaval, the crusaders must lead the downtrodden without losing themselves.

Sins of a Saint: Final Project

My final project is actually going to be my senior Capstone project as an English Major. I have been toying with the idea for a while now with a friend of mine who was interested in illustrating and using the project idea for his own Graphic Design Capstone. In a nutshell, we thought that it would be so insanely cool if Jesus Christ (Jess), John the Baptist (Johnny), and Mary Magdalene (Mags) were placed throughout different periods in history to enact God's will. Basically, I want to place them in really important peaceful revolutions throughout time, resulting in their immediate death. The piece that will be my final project will actually be the last of the series in the respect that it is this holy mod squad's last go on Earth. I really want this piece to focus on the human aspects of who these individuals are when placed in a semi-post apocalyptic  near future society. My project is also going to have pretty heavy Marxist and feminist themes driving the motivations of these characters. Aside from these three characters, I also will focus on Lucifer(Lucy) and Christ's imaginary friend and confidant, the fast talking, beat poet, chain smoking revolutionary: Judas Iscariot.

While we only have a few pages completed (sketched with dialogue), we already have a working storyboard  . While I do have a storyboard, there are some ideas and characterizations that I haven't totally figured out yet. I think that one of the main things that I want to explore with this piece is the ambiguity of the nature of God. This "final mission" is the only one in which my three main revolutionaries are completely cut off with any sort of solid, omnipresent information in regards to their quest. They are completely on their own with only the knowledge of their past missions to guide and motivate them.

Another main theme that I want to explore is the idea of a divine mission/obligation paired with being at the mercy of three very human bodies. These three will experience all of the very real consequences of being human (sexual attraction, guilt, depression, doubt, rage, substance abuse, humor, and the desire to hang on to all of these things).

As far as illustration goes, we are going for a semi-realistic style but also will likely keep it black and white with somewhat crud shading to go with the post-apocalyptic feel.