You know the kind I'm talking about...all angsty and earnest, because they know how the world works. And if 'we adults' would just listen to them, then everything would be sunshine and roses. Throw in a hugely manipulative media director, who controls everything, and is wholly evil beyond belief. Unsurprisingly, there is a lot of religious content in the story. Most of it is depicted negatively: a Christian apologist on TV is rather dumb, most Christians are essentially the Westboro Baptist cult on steroids with guns. The only devout Christian is also a murderer; plus, he truly believes that Chris is the second coming of Christ.

What I found interesting is that you get to read 15 years of story in a book that is not that long and I really felt that time was well described, you could feel the passing of it.Ultimately the premise of the story could have been something really thought provoking and different but it was very one sided and ironically all independent thought is smothered by the author's obvious opinions. He does not ask you to think, he tells you what to think. The "B" story is about a former IRA terrorist seeking redemption as Chris' bodyguard. When Thomas first came into the story, the reader's first impression would be that this stern guy is a Punisher clone. Thomas ends up more nuanced than Frank Castle. Though his name may suggest the doubting disciple, he's a believer, this Thomas is. My big takeaway was the tragedy of blind faith. The Christians in the book largely had it– the IRA did as well, in hindsight– but Chris did too. I think his militant atheism is examined, but never glorified by Murphy, and I think it’s meant to be tragic that Chris perishes with that mindset intact. American Vampire: Survival of the Fittest (with Scott Snyder, five-issue limited series, Vertigo, August 2011 – December 2011) And then, everything starts to fall apart, until the moment where Chris became what you see in the cover of the book.

J2 causes both outrage and adulation. Religious zealots either love or hate the show, angry politicians worry about its influence on the nation, and members of the scientific community fear the implications of cloning a human being at all, let alone the Son of God. As a collective group, those of us who don't believe in God need to stop acting like belligerent teens and start acting like the intelligent, thoughtful people we claim to be. The next time that Jehovah's Witness is standing on your doorstep, maybe you should offer them a bottle of water before sending them on their way? Usually of a group of religious zealots hoarding guns don't have to wait too long before they meet their maker... 'round these here parts. In the end there are some questions left unanswered, What happened to Tim? What happened to Dr. Epstein research? was some of it lost in the island fire? Is it getting implemented? What did the audience of the show think about the death of the protagonist? Is there anything you've learned or taken from other writers you've worked with in recent years that helped you when writing this book?Batman: White Knight Presents Von Freeze (script, with Klaus Janson and Matt Hollingsworth, spin-off to Batman: White Knight, one-shot, DC Comics, November 2019)