Personal Gods (and the Ascencion of a new One)

If you know me you probably know I believe a certain person to be a God.

His name is Neil Gaiman and he is one of my favorite writers.
"The Ocean at the End of the Lane" is one of the best books I read and Gaiman can't seem to do no wrong when it comes to writing.
And let's not start talking about "Sandman"...
(One day I'll write more about Mr. Gaiman)

 

But in the last two years another person ascended to Godhood.

And that person goes by the name of Joe Hill.
He's not as known as Gaiman and certainly not as known as his father is.
You see Mr. Hill is son of a guy called Stephen King (you probably know him...).
But back to Joe Hill.
I was introduced to his writing with a comic called "Locke & Key", a story of Demons, Family and Keys that give special abilities to the ones that use them.
I was hooked.
After that I bought his novels. "Heart-Shaped Box" a story about a rockstar that's given a suit and starts to be haunted by the ghost of the suit previous owner. After that I bought "20th Century Ghosts" and "Horns" (before the film came out, but let's not talk about it...).
I'm missing some of his books still. But he got to a place that no other writer had up until then.
He's not up there with Gaiman but he's a God neverthless.

 

And now a new One as Ascended.

Or rather is Ascending.

The gentleman in question is a former music and computer games journalist called Kieron Gillen.

"Phonogram" is amazing. A story that mixes Music and Magic. His "Young Avengers" run is also compelling and you can't stop reading it.

But the turning point that made him start ascending to Godhood was a story about Gods.

In "The Wicked+The Divine" every ninety years Gods return to earth as young people. Just to die after two years.

It has Music. It has Gods. It is Great.

 

Edit: Concerning Mr. Gillen there's also playlists created for his comics. In the case of Phonogram: The Singles Club those are the songs playing at the club during the story.
Here they are Phonogram, The Wicked + The Divine, Young Avengers

Haunting

Há músicas que ouvimos num certo dia, num certo momento, e percebemos que são músicas que dizem algo que queremos dizer, ou que deviamos ter dito e agora é tarde.

Esta é uma delas... e hoje um desses dias.
Deixo-vos com Halestorm "Here's to Us"

 "Here's To Us"

We could just go home right now
Or maybe we could stick around
For just one more drink, oh yeah
Get another bottle out
Lets shoot the shit
Sit back down
For just one more drink, oh yeah

Here's to us
Here's to love
All the times
That we fucked up
Here's to you
Fill the glass
Cause the last few days
Have kicked my ass
So lets give em hell
Wish everybody well
Here's to us
Here's to us

Stuck it out this far together
Put our dreams through the shredder
Let’s toast cause things got better
and everything could change like that
And all these years go by so fast
But nothing lasts forever

Here's to us
Here's to love
All the times
That we messed up
Here's to you
Fill the glass
Cause the last few nights
Have kicked my ass
If they give you hell
Tell em to go fuck themselves
Here's to us
Here's to us

Here's to all that we kissed
And to all that we missed
To the biggest mistakes
That we just wouldn’t trade
To us breaking up
Without us breaking down
To whatever's come our way

Here's to us
Here's to love
All the times
That we fucked up
Here's to you
Fill the glass
Cause the last few days
Have kicked my ass
So let's give em hell
Wish everybody well

Here's to us
Here's to love
All the times
That we messed up
Here's to you
Fill the glass
Cause the last few nights
Have kicked my ass
If they give you hell
Tell em to go fuck themselves
(Go fuck themselves)
Here's to us
Here's to us
Here's to us
Here's to us

Here’s to us
Here’s to love
Here’s to us (Wish everybody well)
Here’s to us
Here’s to love
Here’s to us

Here’s to us