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A review by billyjepma
Judas by Jakub Rebelka, Jeff Loveness
5.0
This is one of the most poignant, stunning, and crippling comics 'I've ever read. Jeff Loveness—who is one of my favorite comic writers right now—has put together a story that's unlike anything else. "JUDAS" is nothing short of a masterclass in emotion and tragedy and represents one of the many, many reasons I love comics because this story 'couldn't have been told any other way.
While 'Loveness' writing is almost universally flawless—he occasionally strays into overemphasis in explaining certain things—'it's the pairing between his writing and Jakub Rebelka's artwork that catapults this into a whole other realm.
'Rebelka's art is genuinely human and viscerally—even terrifyingly—Other. He seems to capture the emotion of the characters on the page effortlessly, and the visual storytelling at work here is so potent that there 'could've been entire pages without a single line of dialogue and the narrative would still have remained clear.
This a story about God and Jesus and religion and heaven and hell, but it tackles the intricate and often conflicting theologies and beliefs of those concepts with relative ease. Loveness' use of Biblical scripture at crucial moments is genius; Colin 'Bell's lettering is evocative and precisely captures the weight and emotion of the words and images on the page, and Rebelka's illustrations bring remarkable life to a wealth of Biblically inspired images and horrors.
I devoured this comic, and it, in turn, devoured me. Please, please read it.
While 'Loveness' writing is almost universally flawless—he occasionally strays into overemphasis in explaining certain things—'it's the pairing between his writing and Jakub Rebelka's artwork that catapults this into a whole other realm.
'Rebelka's art is genuinely human and viscerally—even terrifyingly—Other. He seems to capture the emotion of the characters on the page effortlessly, and the visual storytelling at work here is so potent that there 'could've been entire pages without a single line of dialogue and the narrative would still have remained clear.
This a story about God and Jesus and religion and heaven and hell, but it tackles the intricate and often conflicting theologies and beliefs of those concepts with relative ease. Loveness' use of Biblical scripture at crucial moments is genius; Colin 'Bell's lettering is evocative and precisely captures the weight and emotion of the words and images on the page, and Rebelka's illustrations bring remarkable life to a wealth of Biblically inspired images and horrors.
I devoured this comic, and it, in turn, devoured me. Please, please read it.