But with the maturation of the Gen-X kids, a generation that's practically been raised by the visual preaching of the television set, an expanding market for adult graphic fiction is now enjoying its golden era. Throughout the 1990's DC Comics Vertigo label made a name for themselves for producing smart, edgy and often dark, comics and graphics novels. Classics such as Hellblazer, The Preacher and The Books of Magic series have all been born of the talented and twisted house that is Vertigo. And of course, so too has the Sandman, one of the most enduring characters in adult comics, been groomed for greatness amongst their ranks. At the Vanguard of the talented pool of storytellers in the Vertigo stable are several of the genres' finest intellects including John Ney Reiber, Neil Gaimen, Garth Ennis and Alisa Kwitney.
Destiny is a complex exploration of the role that fate plays in all our lives.
Specifically, Kwitney uses the figure of Pestilence, one of the four horseman of the apocalypse prophesied in the bible to look at the ways that humanity deals with the inevitable and the unknown. The plot of Destiny is layered like an onion, and to come away with all that this title has to offer, at least a few readings are recommended. Children are little more than wild animals, fear is the default emotion and the dead dance under the pale moon. Holed up on her farm outside of the small town where she made her home, Ruth wrestles with her instinct to survive in a world where she can no longer find a reason to live. And so it goes until one fateful night when a young man by the name of John Ryder shows up with The Book of Destiny, an ancient tome that Ryder claims can cheat fate through the accepting of the knowledge within.