Violent Messiahs

Years later, Image Comics bought the rights to the series, and the original issue was remade, this time with arts by Tone Rodriguez, and color by Travis Smith.

In 2001 Image published Genesis, a black and white trade paperback containing a prologue to the first story arc; the original O'Neill comic.

It begins with the explanation of how Cheri came to be transferred from New York Police Department to heading the Rankor Island Violent Messiah Taskforce, as well as the origin of her "badass mother fucker hat".

Cheri is heading the Violent Messiahs vigilante taskforce for the Rankor Island Police (R.I.P) and is charged with bringing in the serial killer dubbed Citizen Pain by the media.

Their investigations collide and as they begin to look deeper the reader finds that not only are the killers they hunt connected but the police officers are being pulled into a far reaching conspiracy.

Both Job and Jeremiah (Citizen Pain and Family Man respectively) either quote or write it in the story and directly mention that it was important in their upbringing.

[4] In season two episode thirteen of the TV show 90210, Ivy reads an issue of Violent Messiahs during the scene where Naomi comes along to give her her present.