
Well, I have read a great number of comic books and graphic novels in my time, there are good ones and bad ones, some with meaning and some just for fun, but this is something that would've never occurred to me to try. The thing about a comic book is that it is more like a story board for a tv episode, short, sweet, and simple. A graphic novel is more or less the same just replace the 30 minute episode with a 90 minute movie. Given the somewhat limited range (not to take away from it I love comics) it surprised me to see someone attempt to capture the bible in graphic novel form. All the nuance and subtleties of the book don't seem to lend themselves to the medium. I have to wonder what they did with those passages that tend to start with one name throw "beget" in between and end with another name. Perhaps a series of smaller and smaller frames. There are parts of the bible that have a man beating several others to death with a jaw bone, imagine the ink on that page. Song of Songs cant be in this thing right?
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