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

The Endless

"To be conscious at all is to be conscious of time, and of time's arrow: of Destiny. And to know that is to know that time must have a stop: to imagine Death. Faced with the certainty of death, we Dream, imagine paradises where it might not be so: "Death is the mother of beauty" wrote Wallace Stevens. And all dreams, all myths, all the structures we throw up between ourselves and chaos, just because they are built things, must inevitably end in Destruction. And we turn, desperate in our loss, to the perishable but delicious joy of the moment: we Desire. All desire is, of course, the hope for a fulfillment impossible in the very nature of things, a boundless delight; so to desire is always already to Despair, to realize that the wished-for Delight is only, after all, the Delirium of our mortal self-delusion that the world is enough to fit the mind"

 A origem dos Endless de Neil Gaiman como descrita no prefácio da compilação "Book of Dreams"

Origens

"I wish I had an origin story for you. When I was four, I was bitten by a radioactive myth"
           -Neil Gaiman