Judas: The Last Days

author: W Maxwell Prince

name: Wayne

average rating: 3.30

book published: 2015

rating: 1

read at: 2015/02/21

date added: 2015/02/21

shelves: graphic-novels

review:

'Judas: The Last Days' started with an interesting premise: Judas is forced to live as an immortal on Earth to atone for his sin. It quickly devolved into something I found rather offensive.



It's the modern age and Judas still walks the Earth. At this point in time, he just wants out and wants to die. That doesn't seem possible, and he's not the only person walking around with an immortal life. So are all the rest of the disciples as well as Paul. We get some interesting flashbacks where Judas tries to start over, and mostly fails. And there are these strange gnome librarians intent on documenting events and keeping them from getting changed.



I was kind of okay with the Judas storyline, and the art was fine, but it got so weird and the mainline religious characters were so skewed and, frankly, offensive that I just didn't like it. James the Lesser is a disgusting glutton. Matthew is cross-dressing club owner who hangs out with weird demonic creatures. Paul is a power hungry politician with a serious agenda. Don't even get me started on what Jesus is like in this book. Others may find this book hilarious in it's rib-poking at Christianity, and I'm ok with good satire, but this just went too far for me.



I received a review copy of this graphic novel from Diamond Book Distributors, IDW Publishing, and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this graphic novel.





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