Sukumar is editor, Mint, and rapidly running out of new comic books to write about. And the perfect pick-me-up after Behold the Man. That said, Chronicles of Wormwood is a nifty miniseries. I read somewhere that Avatar Press, the publisher, tried to revive the comic book series in 2009, but haven’t come across that comic book yet. Chronicles of Wormwood is far smaller in scope than Preacher it is also a lot less violent and a lot more funny. The Winds of Limbo) (1965) The Twilight Man (a.k.a. The Blood Red Game) (1965) The Fireclown (a.k.a.

The Multiverse trilogy The Sundered Worlds (a.k.a. Garth Ennis clearly has an issue with religion he is the author of the wildly successful Preacher comic book series that I must have written about in a previous edition of this column (it’s been so long, I’ve forgotten). The full (revised) novel later appeared in Behold the Man and other stories (1994, Phoenix House). The rest is a wild, wicked, filthily hilarious or hilariously filthy story (Chronicles of Wormwood also features a talking rabbit and a deviant Australian pope). Neither Wormwood nor Jay want Armageddon although their fathers do. His best friend is Jesus (called Jay), a black man with Rasta locks who lost some of his logical faculties after a run-in with LAPD. Its protagonist is Danny Wormwood, the Antichrist (son of Satan) he lives in New York and is a cable TV executive. The comic book in question is Chronicles of Wormwood. I am sure it too would have been banned in India had it been set in an Indian context we’re big on banning, you see. So, as a sort of pick-me-up, I reread a relatively old comic (it came out four years ago, and was reissued in 2009) which is also about Jesus. Like most good science fiction, Behold the Man left me feeling a bit grey. Urn:oclc:16815390 Scandate 20100721223737 Scanner isn’t a comic book version of Moorcock’s book-not to my knowledge, at least there are comic book versions of other Moorcock books though-but this rather lengthy preamble is relevant because of the comic book that’s the subject of this fortnight’s column. OL2697660W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 90.24 Pages 168 Ppi 400 Related-external-id urn:isbn:1857988485

Urn:lcp:beholdman00moor:epub:c8178100-c38e-4f81-889f-d17c5ff1512c Extramarc University of Toronto Foldoutcount 0 Identifier beholdman00moor Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t5s763s11 Isbn 0380006375ĩ780380006373 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.16 Openlibrary_edition The quest leads Karl to the days of Christ. His girlfriend tries to convince him to follow her lead. Karl is obsessed with living psychology and dead languages. Urn:lcp:beholdman00moor:lcpdf:96784bd8-bfd9-4968-9615-be9d950d4f86 The writer was Michael Moorcock and the story was Behold The Man. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 22:25:30 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA122802 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donor

Behold the Man by Michael Moorcock