“There’s a religion in this world which has arisen that is a combination of Voodoo, Rastafarianism, Santeria and just plain old Pentecostal Christianity…The Bible is all about the Promised Land and this is where ‘Zero Killer’ becomes darkly satirical; the idea is that the United States and the Soviet Union never dropped bombs on Africa because they didn’t care about Africa. So Africa escaped the nuclear holocaust and the people in the towers look at it as kind of a sign and it’s also the last vestige of pre-holocaust civilization. So, it’s become semi-mythologized to the people in the towers…

“Zero has kind of a complicated past and this definitely motivates a lot of what he does in the context of the comic book… He’s someone who used to be a really, really bad person and he’s had a transformative experience. If I said anything more it would ruin some of the surprises in the story. I can also say that he’s a romantic person in the sense that he’s a dreamer.”

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