‘Heavenly Blues’ Pulls Badass Heist in the Afterlife

Writer: Ben Kahn / Artist: Bruno Hidalgo / Scout Comics “I wanna live, I wanna love But it’s a long hard road, out of hell”- Marilyn Manson Name your favorite heist movie. Ocean’s 11? Inside Man? Heat? A good heist movie requires three things. A priceless treasure, impossible circumstances, and a stand out crew. That’s the formula you need to make a heist worthwhile. Heavenly Blues tho? Heavenly Blues went and flipped the heist game by being one part The Good Place, one part Ocean’s Eleven, but all murder music. We’re introduced with some residents of hell that get the chance to do the impossible, break into heaven for the ultimate heist. Our tour guide for hell is provided by Isaiah “Tommy Gun” Jefferson, a thief from the Great Depression era. Isaiah gives us a look into the hell. It isn’t all fire and torment as everyone thinks. There’s a lot of torment but after thousands of centuries, the worst part of hell, is the boredom. This depiction of hell strays from the usual interpretations we’ve seen in pop culture. Not only in the day to day life but the landscape as well. Just as life isn’t fair we see how the rules that send someone to hell can be just as unfair or biased, as we learn from Isaiah’s friend “Wicked” Erin Foley from the time of the Salem Witch Trials. When they’re both approached by someone that needs their skills to steal something from heaven, the story only gets better than you’d expect. A good group of bad people

As crazy as the heavenly heist premise is, …