By Jacob Cordas — For the first time while reading Faithless, I was confused. It’s a comic that has a meticulously built story and world. Its influences are clear. Its references are well considered. This is clearly a labor of love, one that I have sincerely loved. But this issue makes an odd choice that I can’t understand.
Read MoreBy Jacob Cordas — The issue opens with flies. Lots and lots of flies. The first page is swarmed with them, leaving mostly blackness. As it opens up, the visual is a magical reimagining of the setting we are familiar with from the last issue, but now the page is overwhelmed with sinister pinks and silence. The only noise being the sound of sleep and flies giving the opening scene a dream like quality - a nightmare that overwhelms the world.
Read MoreBy Jacob Cordas — There’s a small detail I keep coming back to in Faithless II #2. Near the midpoint of the comic, our protagonist, Faith, has journeyed to Turin with her agent. Her agent reveals Louis, her mentor and possible devil, hasn’t come with them. He can’t fly. Instead he is taking a “slow boat from ‘Gina.” When Faith asks if Louis is afraid to fly, her agent says, “What else does can’t mean?”
Read MoreBy Jacob Cordas — The first volume of Faithless was a gut punch and a reach around all at the same time. I had become jaded with writer Brian Azzarello at this point, concerned that his best work was behind him. And artist Maria Llovet was completely off my radar. But the art looked great and Azzarello had built up so much good will with me after writing one of my preferred runs of Hellblazer, I decided to give it a shot.
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