Joshua Hale Fialkov: Comic Books’ Secret Religious Man?

Joshua Hale Filakov

Both USA Today and The Huffington Post are reporting on the latest comic book series from writer Joshua Hale Fialkov. The Devilers, his new title from Dynamite Entertainment, features and interreligious team of experts in thwarting Satan’s forces…which happen to be pouring out of the sub-basement of the Vatican.

Fialkov is also the writer behind another new series this month, The Life After, from Oni Press — what USA Today calls “a coming-of-age journey through the purgatory of suicides and other after-death planes of existence.”

The Devilers and The Life After join Fialkov’s growing biblography alongside his DC Comics hit I, Vampire which also touches upon the supernatural and spiritual. With each of these titles, Fialkov is, intentionally or otherwise, expanding vistas of religion-tinged narratives across the mainstream comics marketplace.