Writer Joseph Corallo and artist Liana Kangas are pitting gods against each other in May’s “She Said Destroy,” coming from Vault Comics. According to Newsarama, the new sci-fi series will center on the Morrigan‘s attempts to re-take the solar system from their sister, the tyrannical Brigid, God of the Sun.
Describing the series’s influences, Corallo name-dropped Sailor Moon, Final Fantasy, “The Sandman,” and “Legion of Super-Heroes.” But what really inspired him to write “She Said Destroy,” he says, was a chance to do right by the Morrigan, a God of Death (and many other things) who is often depicted as a shallow villain.
“I had a conversation with my friend Beth about the Morrigan,” said Corallo, in a statement at Newsarama. “She was expressing frustration with how the Morrigan is so often portrayed in literature and pop culture as being a villain when there is so much more you could do with them as a character. As that conversation was happening, all of those unconnected thoughts, ideas and memories going back decades all converged onto a single idea, which became ‘She Said Destroy.’ It’s a story about the Morrigan, a God of Death, being a force for good, and Brigid, a God of the Sun, being a tyrant.”
Corallo also talked up Kangas, who he says was his “first choice on the project.” “I didn’t know it at the time, but we had a lot of similar interests growing up and were quickly on the same page with the aesthetic of this story,” he continued. “I will note that Liana’s favorite Final Fantasy is X and mine is IX though, but we’ve worked past that.”
To see initial character designs from Kangas, as well as Nathan Gooden and Tim Daniel’s variant cover for “She Said Destroy”‘s first issue, click over to Newsarama.
