Earthboy Jacobus Graphic Novel

by Doug Tennapel

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June 8th 2005 by Image Comics

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Paperback, 272 pages

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1582404925 (isbn13: 9781582404929)

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Chief Edwards retires from the Modesto Police Department a lonely man. On his way home, he hits a flying whale with his car, opening the beast's mouth...more

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05/26/08

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Every good writer/artist/whathaveyou deserves to be forgiven a clunker, and in this case, Mr. TenNapel, who I have enjoyed quite a bit in the past, gets a mulligan for this horrible clunker of a graphic novel.

Jacobus is a young boy found by an atheist ex-marine, who soon discovers the boy has a terrible secret--the desire to be like other kids his age. Oh wait, I mean he's being chased by the most stereotypical socialist revolutionists this side of a red scare movie. No, that's not right. ...more Every good writer/artist/whathaveyou deserves to be forgiven a clunker, and in this case, Mr. TenNapel, who I have enjoyed quite a bit in the past, gets a mulligan for this horrible clunker of a graphic novel.

Jacobus is a young boy found by an atheist ex-marine, who soon discovers the boy has a terrible secret--the desire to be like other kids his age. Oh wait, I mean he's being chased by the most stereotypical socialist revolutionists this side of a red scare movie. No, that's not right. I mean that it's about a boy who convinces his Dad to be a Christian by fighting against evil secularists.

Ah, screw it.

The point is that this thinly-veiled rabidly pro-Christian graphic novel has everything in common with Chick Tracts and very little in common with an engaging struggle against evil doers that want to take over the earth. Public schools are bad, all teens that hang out together will steal things, the aliens force a minister to give up his faith and see the light against "fairy tale" and "invented savior" which would be the worst lines in the book save for this gem:

"Contrarily, we have made it better. Now there is no hunger, no crime, and cradle-to-grave care for all."

Spoken by the evil bug-things right out of the Rush Limbaugh liberals-are-evil playbook. I don't have a problem with putting faith into a story--TenNapel has it in every book and while not appealing to me, they fit within the general story. The problem is that this time, the references are front and center and the villains are just plan paper dolls for the (soon-to-be) Christian heroes to knock over.

"Who is this human who slanders the state?" I'm afraid it's me, warning you to steer clear of this book, its awful plotting and dialog, and the out-of-the-blue conversions that occur towards the end so that the book gets a tidy, WASP-like (and isn't that ironic when the baddies are bugs?) ending. The book makes clumsy allusions to Jonah, but you need a bigger mouth than that whale to swallow this one. (Library, 05/08)

Trebby's Take: Pass....less

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