Manga Bible Review (not by me)

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Manga Bible Review (not by me)

Postby jon_jinn » Tue Dec 25, 2007 12:11 am

check this review out. seems like another "failed" attempt in recreating the Bible as a manga...

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/the-manga-bible/gn
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Postby lwelyk » Tue Dec 25, 2007 11:18 pm

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Postby Nate » Wed Dec 26, 2007 1:34 am

I figured ultimately this venture would be disappointing, but it's still kinda sad to see that I was right. :\

The reviewer (and poster above me) are pretty much right though. The Bible is just way too difficult to turn into a comic of any sort.
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Postby LadyRushia » Wed Dec 26, 2007 11:22 am

It might have worked out better if they made it a series instead of trying to condense it all into one volume.
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Postby jon_jinn » Wed Dec 26, 2007 12:41 pm

LadyRushia wrote:It might have worked out better if they made it a series instead of trying to condense it all into one volume.


that's exactly what i think. squeezing all of it into one extra-large volume simply doesn't do the Bible justice.
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- Abraham Kuyper

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- Westminister Confession of Faith (Chapter 5, Section 1)

"The wisdom of God has found a way for the love of God to deliver sinners from the wrath of God all the while upholding the righteousness of God!!"
- John Piper

"Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to delight in God without obscuring the glory of God!"
-John Piper

"The very One from Whom we need to be saved, is the One Who has saved us."
- R.C. Sproul

"All of Christian life is ceaseless worship of God the Father, through the mediatorship of God the Son, by the indwelling power of God the Spirit, doing what God commands in Scripture, not doing what God forbids in Scripture, in culturally contextualized ways, for the furtherance of the Gospel, when both gathered for adoration, and scattered for action, in joyous response to God's glorious grace."
- Mark Driscoll

"Believers do not pray with the view of informing God about things unknown to Him, or of exciting Him to do His duty, or of urging Him as though He were reluctant. On the contrary, they pray in order that they may arouse themselves to seek Him, that they may exercise their faith in meditating on His promises, that they may relieve themselves from their anxieties by pouring them into His bosom; in a word, that they may declare that from Him alone they hope and expect, both for themselves and for others, all good things."
- Martin Luther

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Postby uc pseudonym » Wed Dec 26, 2007 2:31 pm

Did they get an advance copy of this? I've had it on preorder for a while and still haven't seen it.

In any case, I suspect what was said in the review will be correct and my own may voice many of the same concerns. Really, I think graphic novels about the Bible need to cover specific events in great detail or they won't accomplish anything.
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Postby KeybladeWarrior » Tue Jan 08, 2008 6:15 pm

Or maybe try to cover one specific story in detail by a series of volumes like the life of David?
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Postby animechica » Fri Feb 01, 2008 8:02 pm

hm, i saw a manga Bible at barnes and noble a little while ago, but i don't think it was the same one.

it was basically just a Bible with several spurts of glossy colored "manga" pages inserted here and there... and it wasn't even manga, quite lazily done, i thought. seemed to be more about comedy, at least what i saw of their telling about David's slaying of Goliath. they completely missed the idea of manga being able to be a completely serious method of storytelling... >_<
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Postby Angel Tifa » Sun Feb 24, 2008 1:33 am

I actually saw a different kind of Manga Bible today when I drove from the cosplay gathering to the Family Christian Store we have in Escondido. I wanted to get some new Christian bumper stickers in the store that says "God Rocks" and "Jesus is the Answer". And then I found a Manga style Bible in the Bible section for teens (a section to help teens better understand the Bible). I thought about picking it up sometime because it does look interesting.
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Postby jaems-kun » Sun Feb 24, 2008 11:42 am

The review was better than I was expecting. ANN + rep
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Postby Scarecrow » Sun Feb 24, 2008 7:47 pm

Oh excellent... I was just coming here to ask about this. Actually, I've found different books all claiming to be Manga Bibles and I was curious if they were actually any good.

The one reviewed looks like a condensed one of the ones by these UK artists that I was looking at (on Amazon.co.uk you can get "Raw" versions of just the OT and the NT which have more in it apparently... but they don't seem to be available in america aside from the edition reviewed here). Seeing how, according to Amazon, it only has something like 227 pages, I don't see how it can be any good.
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