Faust: Sony TV & Matteo Pizzolo Developing Animated Series Adaptation Posted on Matteo Pizzolo are developing an animated version of Faust, based on the superhero horror comic of the same name created by David Quinn and Tim Vigil, according to Deadline Hollywood. Quinn and Vigil's Rebel Studios created Faust in 1987 that follows John Jaspers, a tormented vigilante who sells his soul in exchange for superpowers and must then rise against Mephistopheles to rescue his lover Dr. Jade DeCamp and win back his soul. Image courtesy of Lionsgate Faust with Black Mask Entertainment's Brian Giberson as executive producer. Compared to its darker revolutionary contemporary comics like "Watchmen", "Dark Knight Returns", and "The Crow", the first issue sole over 100,000 copies with later issues averaging 50,000. The core series and its spinoffs ran for 25 years from various publishers including Northstar Comics, Caliber Comics, Avatar Press, and Rebel Studios.