Strong start to a very interesting series.

I love the parallel ancient and modern storylines, and think he uses the visual separation between gods and humans very well indeed. I also appreciated the interaction between gods not generally believed in by the same sets of people - he has some really ambitious ideas in that respect and pulls them off pretty well.

The one thing that marred it was a certain amount of technobabble. Sometimes it would have been better to just leave the technology vague, rather than positing things that not only don't quite make sense, but also demystify the story a little too much. ( )

Strong start to a very interesting series.

I love the parallel ancient and modern storylines, and think he uses the visual separation between gods and humans very well indeed. I also appreciated the interaction between gods not generally believed in by the same sets of people - he has some really ambitious ideas in that respect and pulls them off pretty well.

The one thing that marred it was a certain amount of technobabble. Sometimes it would have been better to just leave the technology vague, rather than positing things that not only don't quite make sense, but also demystify the story a little too much. ( )

There's nothing wrong with taking tales from the Bible and updating them into modern stories. And Testament does a pretty good job of outlining a just-in-the-future country starting to suppress certain rights, and there's some interesting parallels to biblical times. But there's a lot of time spent in these 128 pages revisiting the ancient stories while not giving enough time to really explore the modern one. (I had written "enough time to flesh out" -- but there's more than enough flesh showing on several pages.) So we get a mediocre story about a kid who is trying to avoid being implanted with an RFID chip, but we barely have time to learn about him, his parents, or his friends, all of whom tend to be stock characters.

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LT Haiku:

Perhaps our new tales
are not so much different than
ones that came before. ( )

Second time around it's not that impressive. I'm sorry the first trade doesn't have the notes at the end of vol.2. Those pages clarify a lot and make the bible references a lot more meaningful. ( )

So this was pretty cool. The art was great. It style of the present mirroring the past was fun and I really liked Krishna even though he only had a few lines. Naked punk chicks are always good too.

It seemed like Rushkoff was trying to make this graphic novel "heavier" than it actually turned out. It wasn't as gritty as it could have been but it was still fun. Looks like this series has 3 more graphic novels. Probably won't be able to find them for $1 like I did this one but I would like to see where the whole thing goes. ( )