New Adventures of Jesus
by Frank Stack
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Author: Frank StackEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-01-03
ISBN: 1560977809
Number of pages: 160
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
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Book Review: Subtly humorous religious satire
Summary: 3 Stars
This is a counter-culture series of comics about the second coming of Jesus, told in a really amusing style as though Jesus comes back in modern days and nobody really pays attention to him. He decides not to do the end of the world thing just yet, instead he hangs out and soaks up the 60s culture in America, becoming a university professor, getting a girlfriend, and basically getting into minor trouble.
Frank Stack has a wonderful, loose style of drawing, though the text in the balloons can be really hard to read at times. The humor is very subtle, it didn't make me laugh out loud but I was chuckling inside a lot of the time. I loved the way Stack made Jesus' halo a subject in many of the stories.
If you have a good sense of humor when it comes to religion, you might enjoy this book.
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