Midnight Nation

Midnight Nation is a series of Comic S written by Joe Michael Straczynski and drawn by Gary Frank. It is appeared of October 2000 at July 2002 with the the United States in the editor Top Cow. Into France, it was translated by Semic Comics.

Straczynski carried out a history finished in twelve episodes, to which a promotional episode drawn by Michael Zulli and sold with the magazine Wizard was added.

Synopsis

David Grey is a police inspector of Los Angeles. He inquires into a murder of a young black in popular quarters, certainly a settling of score between dealers of Drogue for his chief. On the track of certain Arlan Jaeker, Grey discovers monstrous beings (the Walkers in English) and their chief who steals his heart to him. With his alarm clock, David discovers that people are translucent, do not see it, nor do not hear it. An young woman explains to him that it passed in the between-two-worlds ( place in between ), that it is one year old to take again its heart or it will become a Walker unless it does not kill it front.

David and Laurel will walk through the United States of this universe in which all the objects and people are found who disappear from the sight of people: the marginal ones, them without residence, etc Their objective is New York where in this universe, a being without name, rebels with the divine authority, in which one can see Lucifer, installed its districts in order to show that God was mistaken by creating the world such as it did it.

Comment

Straczynski, although atheistic, used many elements of Christianity in Midnight Nation :

Lazare was one of the first to be passed between the worlds, the Christ having forgotten it on Earth after having it ressuscity,
the speeches of Lucifer on the imperfection of the world created by God, and his solutions,
the final Crucifixion which embroiders around the concept of Sacrifice.

Midnight Nation is also an attempt at awakening of the defects of the company states-unienne of the end of the Années 1990: in the accounts of those which were found in this parallel universe, the weight of a social norm is expressed which imposes values like the selfishness, the return to oneself, the imitation of the others when they choose the solutions of facility.

The resolution of the intrigue is in the optimistic frame of mind which reigns in works of Straczynski since Babylon 5 . The solution comes, often in this author, by the Altruisme, the gift of oneself and the forgiveness.

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