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The Bible as Graphic Manga Novel, With a Samurai Stranger Called Christ

nytimes.com — Ajinbayo Akinsiku wants the world to know Jesus Christ, just not the gentle, blue-eyed Christ of old Hollywood movies and illustrated Bibles. Mr. Akinsiku says his Son of God is “a samurai stranger who’s come to town, in silhouette,” here to shake things up in a new version of the Bible rooted in manga, the Japanese form of graphic novels.

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  • verenditas, on 02/11/2008, -4/+108Great. PikaJew.
  • Lanefair, on 02/11/2008, -3/+95Can't wait for the story of Noah's Arkira.
  • Pix869, on 02/11/2008, -4/+88"Abraham rides a horse out of an explosion to save Lot."

    ***** dugg.
  • dudefather, on 02/11/2008, -3/+71Satan! What does the scouter say about his power level?
    ITS OVER 9000!!!!!!!!
  • DeathJux, on 02/11/2008, -3/+68Awesome. There's a lot of epic ***** in the Bible, I'm curious how he actually illustrates it.
  • BionicPimp, on 02/11/2008, -4/+50ask a ninja...for forgivness
  • ObeseSnake, on 02/11/2008, -1/+46Cool. Can't wait for the comic book with Muhammad. Oh wait...
  • graemee, on 02/11/2008, -4/+45The incest, murder, guru. Perfect manga material.
  • ConanTL, on 02/11/2008, -11/+50Uh-Oh ... it's only a matter of time until we get the hentai version of the bible. Get behind me Satan *high pitched hentai moan*.
  • graemee, on 02/11/2008, -1/+34He's Jewish too.
  • inactive, on 02/11/2008, -0/+26So it's about Keanu Reeves?
  • doogly, on 02/11/2008, -0/+26WHAT! HE DIES IN THE END! Aw come on, that one picture just ruined the entire thing for me. Wait, maybe he will come back from the dead to vanquish his enemies! ;)
  • ravensncrows, on 02/11/2008, -13/+38kkkkkkkkkkkaaaaaaaaaaammmmmmmmmmmmmmmeeeeeeeeeeehhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaameeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
    supr sayan yesus kristo cut you with bbbaaaaTTOOSAAAIIIIIIII

    HYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrr
  • sesstreets, on 02/11/2008, -3/+26Its not really degradation of the religion, because its dead awesome, however if this was a picture of mohammed or if mohammed was being shown as a samurai warrior, people would be in the streets rioting now and boycotting the times.
  • inactive, on 02/11/2008, -0/+19Basically Christ has spiky glowing blond hair (super saiyan), can shoot balls of energy (kamehameha) and he cut´s people with a samurai´s sword (battousai)
    Dragon Ball Z and Rurouni Kenshin (Samurai-X).
  • e61iuser, on 02/11/2008, -0/+15I choose you! Resurrect!
  • skidzilla, on 02/11/2008, -2/+17Battle Pope!
    http://skidzilla.googlepages.com/battle-pope.jpg
  • nigh7dagger, on 02/11/2008, -4/+19You obviously didn't read the story where Samson kills a thousand men with a jawbone.
  • inactive, on 02/11/2008, -0/+14can anyone translate that for me?
  • Pixelante, on 02/11/2008, -3/+16Will it be titled "Hokuto no Jesus"?
    You wa Shock! Ai de sora ga ochitekuru
    You wa Shock! Ore no mune ni ochitekuru
  • adml_shake, on 02/11/2008, -2/+15tell me he comes back as some sort of cyborg....or zombie.
  • Tebixan, on 02/11/2008, -0/+12and he'll spend 15 pages just powering up and talking *****
  • tgarza17, on 02/11/2008, -1/+12I like to think of Jesus as wearin' a Tuxedo T-shirt, 'cause it says, like, "I want to be formal, but I'm here to party too." I like to party, so I like my Jesus to party.
  • AriseNow, on 02/11/2008, -0/+11What? Are you a lolicon fan?
  • chip0wa, on 02/11/2008, -0/+11You could have tried just a bit harder.
  • tophu, on 02/11/2008, -2/+13And if your ***** is boring, you are doing it wrong.
  • positron, on 02/11/2008, -1/+12Dude! Don't tell people he comes back as a zombie. ***** spoiler!
  • MOJIRA, on 05/17/2008, -1/+9Jesus will need to form a spirit bomb to defeat him.
  • Pixelante, on 02/11/2008, -0/+8I stopped at "Jesus wearing a tuxedo" and now I have this mental image of the Son of God introducing himself as "Christ. Jesus Christ."
  • noahhoward, on 02/11/2008, -2/+10My dad's girlfriend got this for my little brother when he visited for Christmas, mum was pissed (they're divorced). It's really unbelievable but I suppose if it's not some deliberate attempt to draw kids in with pop culture, it's just some guys homage to it, then it's not as bad I suppose.
  • unkle, on 02/11/2008, -0/+8this looks a hell of a lot better than those jack chick comics
  • TotalCarb, on 02/11/2008, -0/+7Sesshomajew
  • nullifidian0, on 02/11/2008, -0/+7Or his suicide killing spree. Also very awesome.
  • KingGorilla, on 02/11/2008, -0/+7Hey hey let's go! Protect my balls!
  • onwardknave, on 02/11/2008, -12/+19What I wouldn't give for some well-rendered anime of a samurai Richard Dawkins, slicing through legions of crusaders to find truth. The last thing Christianity needs is another piece of propaganda in the form of pop culture. It's the new generation's version of Christian Rock.
  • weeeezzll, on 02/11/2008, -0/+7When you edit comments with links, the links get mangled...

    One of these days Digg will fix this...

    O.o
  • SlvrEagle23, on 02/11/2008, -2/+7A hentai white stripes album?
  • Akaji, on 02/11/2008, -4/+10Jesus did exist. L2History.
  • Akaji, on 02/11/2008, -1/+7"Turning the other cheek" is actually a really snarky response to being slapped in the face - to be slapped once on one cheek is an insult, but to be touched on both cheeks is a compliment (so you're basically telling them that you're waiting for them to compliment you).
  • Rodman930, on 02/11/2008, -0/+6I like the Lego Bible. http://www.thebricktestament.com
  • KyjL, on 02/11/2008, -1/+7...The *****?
  • MOJIRA, on 05/17/2008, -2/+8Only if you believe in the fly spaghetti monster as your god.
  • dunadan67, on 02/11/2008, -0/+6Pretty sure the Bible has already been Rule 34'ed long ago.
  • cvh™, on 02/11/2008, -1/+7If he doesn't make it as the final bad guy, he will probably make it into the fillers in the anime...
  • HelloNavi, on 02/11/2008, -0/+5Or, like, Jesus.
  • Stupidumb, on 02/11/2008, -0/+5Did a Christian steal your job or something?
  • Chalesb, on 02/11/2008, -0/+5dude revalation of this thing should be awesome just jesus coming back and kiking ass
  • TheDreadDiggerD, on 02/11/2008, -1/+6Of course there was the one time he went into the temple with a whip and overturned the tables of the money-changers. That was awesome.
  • nicksauce, on 02/11/2008, -0/+5I did, however, read the part where about 1000 people begat some other people.
  • Pixelante, on 02/11/2008, -2/+7Awesome. Jesus invented english humor.
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