I would be lying if I said I didn’t put a lot of Tilda Swinton’s character from Constantine into Gabe as well. But that character was also based off of gender-ambiguous Renaissance depictions of angels, so it tracks.
I would be lying if I said I didn’t put a lot of Tilda Swinton’s character from Constantine into Gabe as well. But that character was also based off of gender-ambiguous Renaissance depictions of angels, so it tracks.
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Hey Gabe what is that ax thing that you wield? Also why do you smoke so much and say stuff like get drunk? I thought angels were supposed to be holy beings that are perfect. Im not saying that you aren’t totally awesome because you are way past cool. One last question, do you consider the other angels your siblings?
Gabe uses a halberd.
As for the smoking and stuff, I’d say Gabe’s tired of having to BE the Holy Being that Religion makes Gabe out to be. So Gabe rebels at it. Think about what Gabe says in Orientations chapter 5 page 28 frame 2.
“Oh I was about to, but you know how much I hate playing the deus ex machina.”
Um I don’t speak Spanish.
https://www.skindeepcomic.com/archive/issue-five-page-28/
Not Spanish.
The Latin translation of a plot device from Greek tragedy plays.
Deus Ex Machina – God from the machine.
The external easy out solve to an insoluble tragedy problem.
You knew what I meant. And thanks.
Gabriel and Lucifer were the best things about that movie, hands down.
What movie?
Constantine I believe. The one with Keanu Reeves.
Good movie, horrible adaptation.
I agree with you about Gabriel and Lucifer being the best things in that movie. I mean, Tilda Swinton and Peter Stormare… did you expect any less? Peter, in particular, can chew the scenery with the best of them when the role calls for it (but he can be subtle too. He’s very versatile.) Put Peter and (a much younger) Brian Blessed in the same room, and you’d get Ham-to-Ham Combat.
I’m not in a position to judge the quality of the adaptation, never having read the comics on which it’s based, so I’ll have to take your word on that. (But hey, at least I know it is an adaptation, which puts me ahead of some people.) I do know that Constantine didn’t care if you were half-angel or half-demon, if you disrupted the balance, he’d deport your ass. That doesn’t really come across in the movie.
Silly RQ time: Could you draw a pic of Barnaby, Vadoma, and Ravi on Jeopardy!, being asked a $200 clue about Roman mythical creatures.
Other than Gabe, are there other angels kicking around in the Skin Deep-verse? Are angels mortal? Is there a divine equivalent to the hellmouth we saw in “Dogpatch” that leads to–maybe not heaven–an angelic realm? Are Archangels a thing?
Are Chupacabras a thing?
A Genderqueer Angel voiced by Tilda Swinton is now my new headcanon =^.^=
Gonna be something of a jackass here and point out that, ironically enough, Gabriel is THE one angel whose name specifies a gender (male). In fact, a YOUNG man, to be quite precise.
It’s doubly funny/weird because indeed all other divine blessing/angel-associated names in hebrew angeology (afaik), from Rafael to Satan, are action-based and could apply equally to any gender or none. But Gabe had to be special in such a quizzical way.
That was a weird question, considering how the comic goes out of its way to make the answer apparent by making other characters discuss it.
Do turned (or unturned) smell different to animals?
Are wolperdingers real in the Skin Deep universe? How would they get along with jackalopes?
I don’t know about their status in the Skin Deep universe, but Kory has drawn them for an RQ.
First RQ for 2016 – https://www.skindeepcomic.com/reader-questions/february-2016-reader-question-1/
I love the toe rings.
I’m glad to see Gabe again, though it’s a little awkward as I’ve been playing Darksiders a lot lately.
I love that Gabe is a toe-ring-wearing barefooter (like me), but that brings up a question: What do they do in Winter/snowy conditions? (Maybe they just don’t feel cold the same way that we mere mortals do?)