Interesting. Not his chosen, but his sorrow. Of course, I suppose this could refer to the attitude Meittron's spawn developed towards him, and he, them.

Now, for some reason, I'm thinking of Frankenstein (the novel). I'm not sure there's a parallel between the realationship Shelley describes between creator and created and that of Meittron and his Children, but I wonder.

I'll be going into Xel'Duum's Dream and Meittron's Sorrow a lot more now that this new story has started up.

We have three characters who are discovering things now:  Locus, Isaac and Dr Wells.  Each of them will be finding things out from different points of view, but all these discoveries should mesh enough to give the readers a coherent view of everything that's gone on from the beginning of time until now.

The big thing to remember about Meittron is that he's been reincarnating himself as a human since the days of Adam and Eve.  He was supposed to forget who he was every time he was born, but sometimes that knowledge slipped out in odd ways.  Moses and Jesus are good examples of this.

So Meittron doesn't really have much of an opinion of his creation one way or the other.  Not like you'd think.  The angels and fallen angels, on the other hand....

'Hey, Daddio, this really sucks,' I'm guessing.

I didn't quite get that Meitron doesn't remember who he is in these incarnations. Not very responsible, then, is he?

So, to sum up, when people in the Locusverse pray to God, they're beseeching a character who, when things didn't go his way, took his ball and bat and abdicated? That's a fine kettle of fish.

You know, I never really did specify any amnesia on Meittron's part.  Now that I go back and re-read the last half of issue 6...it reads a little differently than I'd intended.  I'll try and fix that in a future scene.

As for your prayers...they do indeed go somewhere.  Just not to Meittron.  Or any of his offspring, for that matter.

In all honesty, I probably should've left God and the Devil alone.  Those characters work best when they stay the way everyone imagines and expects them to be.  I just wanted a world where Locus and Isaac had no one to turn to but themselves and their close family.

See, when you make a story with supernatural elements in it, eventually you'll have to work up the supernatural food chain to God Almighty Himself.  And when you get there, he's usually one of the following:

• Good, but a bit aloof,
• Good, in a child-like and whimsical way, or
• Uncaring, like a father who abandoned his family.

In Bruce Almighty, he's the "Good in a whimsical way" God.  In Constantine, he's "a kid with an ant farm".  And those Gods will either magically fix everything in the end (and I'm not fond of that kind of story) or be completely unreachable--which seems like a cop-out to me.

I figured we'd seen all those Gods before, so I broke his heart and made him do something foolish that we've all been paying for ever since.