A superhero that survies … Oakland
Pop + Politics does an interview with Orlando Harding, an Arizona social worker who’s making waves with his character Pariah, who falls from Heaven to, of all places, Oakland, Calif.
Naked.
Needless, to say, the brotha ain’t to popular with the police. Or anyone else. He’s in a battle between heaven and hell while on Earth, very similar to the dilemma faced by Spawn.
Harding is publisher of Revolution Comics. He toiled away until a San Francisco Chronicle article put him on the map. He’s now working on edition number four and trying to get a movie deal — sending some books to Stephen Speilberg. “If I’m gonna get turned down, I may as well get turned down by the best,” Harding says.
