While running to my local comic book store to see if SAGA had yet come out of their hiatus, I ran into my friend Shirley in the parking lot and when I told her I was on my way to the comic store, she told me her favorite series as one called THE WICKED + THE DIVINE, a story about the gods and their time on earth. "Like Mount Olympus kind of Gods?" I asked, but Shirl said that it was more like SANDMAN where these humans took the embodiment of the beings like Love, Death, etc. and interacted for a short time among the living til they perished.
All I had to hear was the reference to Sandman, and I was TOTALLY on board, and HAD to see if the comic store had it! When I got there, I was thrilled to find that Wicked and Divine had just released its first trade paperback a few months ago and IMMEDIATELY snatched it up! When I took it home and read it, I was so blown away by how awesome it was, I not only made plans to sart collecting the individual issues from that point on, but went on ebay to buy each individual issue included in the TPB (the covers were so damn beautiful, each one featuring one member of the Gods) PS: It was a good thing they had that Wicked and Divine trade when I went in, because I was to find out that SAGA would not be coming back for one more week!!! So lucky to find this to immerse myself in as I wait!
