Hey guys!
This is new Evil Ernie writer, Jesse Blaze Snider. Thank you all for commenting and for the most part being so positive. I've always noticed that the darker books seem to get the more optimistic its fan following seems to be. Anyway, I thought I'd post a piece of my original pitch to clear up some of your concerns...
EVIL ERNIE:THE BIG PICTURE
In the world of Evil Ernie there is an eternal conflict that has existed for all time, a war between good and evil, Heaven and Hell, God and the Devil. Moral souls rise to Heaven and join the ranks of God’s armies. Amoral souls sink below and join the fight from the other side. As everyone knows, the good die young, often as victims of evil men. This unfortunate unbalance on Earth, keeps Heaven strong and Hell weak, but Hell has just made its first move towards tipping the scales back the other way.
Ernest Fairchild was destined to be Heaven’s greatest General in its eternal war against Hell. But when the dark forces found out about him, they set young Ernie on a rapid road to damnation. Through demonic possession and manipulation of his family, friends and neighbors Ernie was deprived of the nurture, which should have led him down a path of righteousness and eventually took him to Heaven. Instead, Evil Ernie was sent to Hell for his sins and remade. With Heaven’s greatest weapon under their control, Hell finally has the power to free Lucifer from the 9 Circle of Hell and destroy the Kingdom of Heaven. But in order to do that, they need a million of the most EVIL sinners the world has to offer. They need mega death.
Aided by his psychic ability to see into the minds of all people and judge them good or evil, Ernie is going to kill his way across the globe until he reaches megadeath and sets Lucifer free. Guided by his longtime imaginary friend Smiley, who is actually >SPOILER<, Ernie is lead towards the greatest possible recruits for Hell’s Army and will judge everyone else along the way. The righteous live, the wicked die.
Though driven insane by his torturous upbringing, Ernie still has a natural inclination towards punishing the evil and helping the good. He couldn’t be happier that his homicidal activities are seemingly helping make the world a better place. In his mind, he is a hero and Smiley >SPOILER<. Ernie won’t know what he is really doing until its too late.
>SPOILER< will ensure the delivery of the 999,999 sinners (111,111 for each of the 9 Circles of Hell), including “the NINE” Generals that will lead Hell’s armies (Pagan, Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Wrath, Heresy, Violence, Fraud and Treachery) to victory! But Hell needs one more very special, very >SPOILER< soul to reach a million and that soul belongs to >SPOILER<! Hell will pull out all the stops, doing everything they can to >SPOILER< and free Lucifer so they can kill God and destroy Heaven once and for all!
So, just to be clear, Ernie WILL be working towards MEGADEATH! BUT megadeath is a bit different than it was in the original series. In the real world, MEGADEATH is a military term, meaning ONE MILLION DEATHS, created to measure the loss of life in millions in a nuclear attack. Ernie is working on ONE very important megadeath. He is going to kill a million of the worst sinners this world has to offer, Hell needs this million to offset the balance of power between Heaven and Hell so they can destroy Heaven. Ernie does not know this. He thinks it will take a megadeath to make the world a better place and he's willing to sacrifice his afterlife to give a better life to everyone else.
I know that this is a fair amount different from the original series, but without Lady Death things needed to be rethought. I figured it was the wrong move to create a Lady Death analogue and do it all again. So, I've taken a new approach. I think our book contains the romanticism that won so much of us over in the original series. Except instead of the love of Lady Death, Ernie has a broader love for good people who are being pushed around by evil sinners and he's gonna take them out so they don't have to deal with torment anymore.
Anyway, I hope you'll all give the book a chance! There is loads of funs stuff and interesting stuff and at the end of the day its Evil Ernie, so you know its violent and crazy as all Hell! Hope you guys will give this new iteration a chance! =)
Sincerely,
JBS
Jesse Blaze Snider
P.S. I sent the script for the first 2 issues to TWO long time hardcore Ernie fans/comic book artists, Tim Seeley and JK Woodward. Both of them gave me two thumbs up. In fact, Seeley drew our only cover, which features characters from the book and JK tried to get the gig drawing the book after he liked the scripts so much! JK and I will work together on something soon I'm sure. =)
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