Dealing with the Devil

Here are questions that people have asked me about my comic. I answer all questions that don't spoil the plot of the story. If you have a question that you'd liked answered, email me (click copyright gif @ bottom of page).

I've dreamed of being a movie director since I was in 5th or 6th grade. I love movies and believe they're an excellent "artistic medium" to express one's vivid imagination. (My nickname ain't Dream Catcher for no reason!)

NO, actually, MAYBE. In the end (whenever that will be), if I believe DwtD to be shelve worthy (and after I redo the first few chapters) then I'll self publish it. Since I have no intention of becoming a graphic novel artist/writer in the future I don't plan on moving DwtD into a career (unless I happen to make it into a movie but DwtD is really controversial so, at this current place in time, it wouldn't do well commercially).

Every Sunday (with a few occasional Mondays)... sometimes rarely cause I've got a life (as hard as it is to believe).

By my guess... Theo is probably around 5'6" to 5'7" ish while Sony is around 5'2" to 5'4". Lucifer is around 6' or 6'1" while Beelzebub is a little shorter. Succubus is Sony's height more or less (she wears heels which make her appear taller). Gabriel is a little shorter than Theo but taller than Sony while Michael matches Lucifer's height.

I started around the end of summer in 2002. Mostly I was just playing with certain ideas and thinking up characters. I only became serious about actually doing the comic when I found some tutorials on Photoshop. After that, I began coloring images of characters and other ideas. I finally started creating profiles of the characters and writing the script for the story at the beginning of the summer of 2003.

I read through your site and I'm totally offended! I mean, Dealing with the Devil?!

I'm sorry if I offended you, this site is merely a web comic and not about worshiping the devil or down-grading angels. I based several of the ideas in this comic of angels in the Christian, Jewish, and Muslim religion along with several stories. It doesn't follow any particular "myth" in any of the religions to the dote. Some things come straight out of the books (Koran, Bible) while others come out of stereotypes (ie. angels have "rings" for halos). Most importantly I use the concept of Heaven and Hell (since it's present in all three religions) and question it's vitality. But remember, this is just some made up story that came out of the depths of a teenagers head and I'm not trying to affect anyone's religion. If you consider this religious blasphemy then I suggest you leave.

My favorite hobby is storytelling but I'm not a writer. Since I'm good at art and love color I figured the best way to go about doing storytelling would be through a web comic (especially after I saw the splendid job Neondragon is doing). A web comic is extremely similar to storyboard art (except there's positioning panals of different sizes and better quality rendering), and, since I want to be a director when I "grow up", being a storyboard artist is a stepping stone to that position.

How come some of the characters on the "Character" page are silhouettes and don't have much information about them?

The characters that are silhouettes are characters that haven't been exposed in the comic yet. As the characters are introduced I'll add the rest of the information and put on the 'real' profile picture of them. The reason is because I don't want to give away any of the story by introducing all the characters. Plus, it leaves the readers something to look forward too ;P.