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News: Sachs & Violens Returns in Fallen Angel #19
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FALLEN ANGEL GETS A LITTLE HELP FROM PAD'S FRIENDS
11-08-2004 01:22 PM by Matt Brady(excerpt)
NRAMA: With the Miraculous recovery you're good to go for #19 and #20 in February and March, respectively. What's coming in there?
FALLEN ANGEL #19 (Feb 2005)
PETER DAVID: Well, that’s the nifty thing. For the first time in the history of Fallen Angel, we’re actually going to have official guest stars. For years now, fans have been asking me if I’m ever going to revisit Sachs and Violens, the characters who starred in the four issue limited series George Perez and I did years ago for Epic’s “Heavy Hitters” line. The answer is, yup, they’ll be showing up for a two-parter in Fallen Angel #19 and #20.
NRAMA: For folks who may not have been collecting, or that may have been too young [the miniseries was very mature readers] to pick the miniseries up in ’93-’94, can you explain just who Sachs and Violens are, both as characters and as a property?
PAD: Basically it was Modesty Blaise meets 9 ½ Weeks. They were two street-level adventurers with a rather unique worldview. To quote from my intro in the first issue: “It is one of the bizarre truisms of our society that sex and violence seem inextricably linked in the public perception. As if they both have the same gravity, that both are intolerable, and that both are a scourge of our society to be dealt with. It would seem incomprehensible, though, how the two might actually be related to one another. Sachs and Violens is a series that attempts to draw a connection between the two while at the same time exploring the fundamental hypocrisy in a society that, in casual parlance, has joined an act that ultimately leads to life with an act that ultimately leads to death. The adventures of J.J. Sachs and Ernie “Violens” Schultz. Two people who battle some of the greatest evils of our society: Pornography. Murder. White Slavery. Religious fanaticism. And why do they do this? Because they get an erotic charge from risking their lives. Violence begets sex.”
NRAMA: They were...unique characters who had a...unique relationship. I often got the feeling that you and George were playing "I dare ya" with each other and the audience in regards to the stories, the relationship, and where things went. Was that part of the intent at least - to see how far you could push the envelope?
PAD: Oh yeah, absolutely. It’s pretty out there. J.J. is an ass-kicking model-turned-crusader, and Ernie is a war-scarred photographer with anger management issues whose one joy was when J.J. got turned on by one of their adventures and would jump his bones. I mean, there was never anything outright obscene about it. It was sort of a nudge-nudge, wink-wink aspect to it. We weren’t out to get retailers arrested for selling porn. But it pushed the envelope back in the early ‘90s and, considering the way the country has gotten more repressed rather than less, it’d probably be thought of as even more testing of limits now.
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