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scans_dailyDid anybody else pick up Lake of Fire's double sized issue 1 this week?
To me, this is a story about faith. It's about how faith can elevate the human spirit and also lead it down some of the darkest paths imaginable. It's about how faith provides easy and false answers to complex questions, and how those answers can nevertheless give us the courage to live without fear and, hopefully, to be our best selves. The characters in this story come from the depths of the Dark Ages. Their entire world is viewed through the prism of faith. Their ignorance, compared to ours, is so profound that it's almost unimaginable. They don't know why they get sick, or why the seasons change, or why the sun goes down at night. All they have to cling to is their faith. So the ways in which our characters use their faith to understand and confront the bewildering and terrifying situation they are faced with is what's really fascinating and compelling to me. - Nathan Fairbairn
IT's another Image high-concept book, where the concept is "take something that is new and interesting and mash it up with something that is old and tired."
The short story is that a newly knighted idiot kid and his young squire run off to join the 4th Crusade, besieging a nearby castle. The lord in charge sends them and the rest of the people who are more hassle than they are worth. on a fool's errand just to get him out of his hair.
However, the village that they are sent to is empty, what's left of it's entire population hiding out in the keep and reporting that people have been taken from the woods and also abducted at night. The crusader's Inquisitor berates the village, saying that no wonder they are having problems if their church is empty, their altar defiled, the priest missing and that they even have a Cathar heretic living among them.
The Crusaders set off in search of the heretic, and find her alone in the woods.
This is something that I could happily read. The thing that it's mashed up with is a bit less appealing, though, as Sequart.org points out, it does manage to avoid a number of difficult problems.
To me, this is a story about faith. It's about how faith can elevate the human spirit and also lead it down some of the darkest paths imaginable. It's about how faith provides easy and false answers to complex questions, and how those answers can nevertheless give us the courage to live without fear and, hopefully, to be our best selves. The characters in this story come from the depths of the Dark Ages. Their entire world is viewed through the prism of faith. Their ignorance, compared to ours, is so profound that it's almost unimaginable. They don't know why they get sick, or why the seasons change, or why the sun goes down at night. All they have to cling to is their faith. So the ways in which our characters use their faith to understand and confront the bewildering and terrifying situation they are faced with is what's really fascinating and compelling to me. - Nathan Fairbairn
IT's another Image high-concept book, where the concept is "take something that is new and interesting and mash it up with something that is old and tired."
The short story is that a newly knighted idiot kid and his young squire run off to join the 4th Crusade, besieging a nearby castle. The lord in charge sends them and the rest of the people who are more hassle than they are worth. on a fool's errand just to get him out of his hair.
However, the village that they are sent to is empty, what's left of it's entire population hiding out in the keep and reporting that people have been taken from the woods and also abducted at night. The crusader's Inquisitor berates the village, saying that no wonder they are having problems if their church is empty, their altar defiled, the priest missing and that they even have a Cathar heretic living among them.
The Crusaders set off in search of the heretic, and find her alone in the woods.
This is something that I could happily read. The thing that it's mashed up with is a bit less appealing, though, as Sequart.org points out, it does manage to avoid a number of difficult problems.
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Date: 2016-08-27 04:52 pm (UTC)I'm curious if they will talk or show "lo gran mazel".
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Date: 2016-08-27 04:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-08-27 09:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-08-28 01:30 am (UTC)"Tuer tous, Dieu reconnaitras les siens"
Will pop up in this story.
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Date: 2016-08-27 09:29 pm (UTC)No stoooooop
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Date: 2016-08-30 05:01 am (UTC)