The Weird Testament: Crumb's Genesis and the Wolverton Bible

R. Crumb's Book of Genesis Illustrated is now out, and my review is up at Religion Dispatches, in a dual review with the Wolverton Bible.

There is nothing sacred to underground and alternative comics
creators. Irreverence has been a defining characteristic of the
movement since the 1960s, when creators like R. Crumb and Gilbert
Shelton began using the words-and-pictures medium to create scathing,
sex-and-drug-filled satires of square culture. No subject was safe from
the savage pens of these...