While you were out partying, I studied THE BOAT.
You can tell the Picture Bible has gotten into the New Testament because the Jewish folks are suddenly cartoonishly conniving.
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The Picture Bible has occasional infographic pages. Here’s a portion of a timeline of King Saul’s life.
The Picture Bible has weird priorities, mistake-wise.
The Picture Bible then leaves out the part where Moses orders the Levites to run around camp stabbing 3000 of their own people to death.
Aaron, Moses’s brother who orchestrated the whole Golden Calf ordeal, gets off scott free.
You can tell the Picture Bible has gotten into the New Testament because the Jewish folks are suddenly cartoonishly conniving.
I used to have Picture Bible when I was a kid. It was the Bible in comic book form, basically a compilation of a bunch of smaller stories into a huge-ass book. And, dammit, I wanted one again. That thing was awesome.
Anyway, it came in the mail from Amazon today, and I might scan some stuff for you guys as I go through it.
Some stuff I don’t remember from the edition I read as a kid were these factoid pages in between the chapters. These seem new. Check out this one from after the Creation. I love how there’s all these simple scientific facts listed, but with all this stuff about God sprinkled throughout. Sorta like occasionally talking about unicorns in the middle of an arithmetic lesson.
This panel is the Picture Bible equivalent of Korra and Asami holding hands and walking into the spirit world.
What The Picture Bible needs are more action hero one-liners like this. Though I think I would’ve preferred “CHECK PLEASE!”
Nah, we just evolved into Jewmander.
JESUS HAS BEEN CRUCIFIED
IT’S NOT VERY EFFECTIVE…
Finally, after 102 pages, the Picture Bible’s first fat guy!
I scanned this because those talking guys in the foreground are hilarious.
But then I noticed that Noah has five guys helping him build the Ark. Noah only had three sons.
According to the Picture Bible, Noah hired people to build the Ark. These same people later drowned. I wonder if Noah paid them by check.
The depiction of the wickedness that forced God to destroy the world in the Flood is one of the things that the Picture Bible kind of fumbles because of its young target audience. Anything that normal people would think would be worthy of death isn’t gonna happen, so instead it looks like God just really hates parties.
(Though to be fair to the doctrine, any of these things being depicted – drunkenness, gambling, idolatry – are equal sins in God’s eyes to murder, rape, etc. Any one of them can, by itself, remove you from God’s grace. So, yeah, even according to the source material, these people are wicked and worthy of death.)
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