Saviour

    (Trident, 1989-1991)
™ and © Trident

Here’s the tale of the apocalypse but with a slight super-hero slant to it. Don’t expect this title to be as fun as a super-hero comic book—the bold use of ink keeps the mood dark and depressing. Moreover, the super-hero featured here is none other than the Anti-Christ himself!

Posing as a crusader of hope, the son of the devil makes good use of a cape and twentieth century technology. Video captures his “heroic” missions and his “good will” messages. But what the media and the rest of the world don’t know about this Saviour is that in between the rescues and the enterprises, he takes short sabbaticals to churches and kills priests!

Meanwhile, the true protagonist is present—but hardly in the guise of the Good Lamb ready to fight the last battle. Rather, he is a drifter sorely troubled over mankind’s eagerness to take a path that will lead to self-destruction, and he wanders the streets of the modern world somewhat aimlessly—in a deep state of melancholy and doubt, as if he were still within the walls of Gethsemane.

Surely, writer Mark Millar’s earliest work in the comics medium stirred up plenty of controversy.
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  • 1
    #1
    Dec 1989
    Cover: $1.95
    W: Mark Millar  ·  A: Daniel Vallely
    Adult; B&W
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    #2
    Feb 1990
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    W: Mark Millar  ·  A: Nigel Kitching
    Adult; B&W
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    #3
    Apr 1990
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    W: Mark Millar  ·  A: Nigel Kitching
    Adult; B&W
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    #4
    Aug 1990
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    W: Mark Millar  ·  A: Nigel Kitching
    Adult; B&W
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    #5
    Oct 1990
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    W: Mark Millar  ·  A: Nigel Kitching
    Adult; B&W
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    #6
    Jan 1991
    Cover: $1.95
    W: Mark Millar  ·  A: Nigel Kitching
    Adult; B&W
    3 copies from $59.98