E così conoscerai l'universo e gli dei

And You Thought Your God Was A Jerk... Illustration Below -- The suspect, I. M. Yahweh, aka 'God', during his trial for abandonment, the terrorist attack on Sodom and Gomorrah, his drunken prank in Egypt known as 'The Ten Plagues', and his genocidal attempt to kill all life-without-gills with hi

This is an art comic/graphic novel in the manner of DeForge, Woodring, Burns. It's a kind of sci-fi origin story for the universe, decidedly not Biblical, but a kind of commentary on the Biblical creation story, or one of them. "By Their Fruits You Shall Know Them" (Matthew 7:15-20). You can know pe Leggi tutto

Two Gods present show-and-tell to their teacher while a third God doth hang out. They appear to be working on projects that consist of conceptual art forms. Zantek sets out to take control over all the silicon particles in the universe and constructs elegant four-dimensional shapes. Ablavar, who see Leggi tutto

Another damn weird book. Entertaining all the same.

Jesse Jacobs' Crawlspace was probably my favourite graphic novel of 2017 so I owed it to myself to explore some of Jacobs' older work. This one is a delight. Ablavar and Zantek are always trying to impress their teacher with varying results, in the classic struggle of carbon vs. silica-based life. Y Leggi tutto

Part illustrator’s playground, part graphic novel about the origins of our world, By This shall You Know Him by Jesse Jacobs is quite unusual. I found it very good, actually, even if I am not particularly fond of its violent take. (But much of mythology is extremely violent by 2010s’ standards.) The Leggi tutto

E così conoscerai l'universo e gli dei è un'opera allucinante come qualunque cosa creata da Jesse Jacobs. Racconta la storia dell'Universo, del Mondo, dei Dinosauri, degli Ani-mali e degli U-mani attraverso diversi personaggi, tra cui alcune divinità che si divertono a creare opere complesse di sili Leggi tutto

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