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God Is Dead #3
God is dead - volumen 3
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144 pages, Hardcover
First published December 9, 2014
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Mike Costa
712 books30 followersMike Costa is an American comic book and television writer.
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October 30, 2014
...and they shot jesus, some chick tried to eat his brains. and he came back from the dead and saved everybody.
....and half god of dead is stealing raspberry pies and hes really a pig farmer who is inlove with
little eros and brings him flowers...
...and jesus smokes weed...
...and all of this is moving into WTF realm....
3stars for bizarre factor, 2 stars for...everything else.
....and half god of dead is stealing raspberry pies and hes really a pig farmer who is inlove with
little eros and brings him flowers...
...and jesus smokes weed...
...and all of this is moving into WTF realm....
3stars for bizarre factor, 2 stars for...everything else.
March 17, 2016
I don't get it. Every other page is some god smashing another god's head in. And then the gods come back to life and get killed again.
And all the women have huge breasts and not much clothing.
We can do better! Just read American Gods or Fables or something.
And all the women have huge breasts and not much clothing.
We can do better! Just read American Gods or Fables or something.
February 27, 2018
series went downhill quickly.
August 30, 2022
God is Dead Vol. 3
Collects issues 13-18
That Jesus.
Page one. First victim. Jesus. Yes, that Jesus. Shot in the head. The shooter, Albert, defends his actions,”… we don’t need him… We saved the World.”
Three days and a few pages later, Jesus is back. “I thought for sure all you guys had read my book.” Best line this volume.
Jesus brings the whole world back from the dead but the Returned are unable to die again. That poses some problems. Would you want to live with a sword embedded in your skull or missing half your face courtesy of a gun blast? Resurrection isn’t what it used to be.
Albert reunites with his resurrected family.
In the Aztec Realm of the Dead, Hephaestus betrays Athena, using her as bait for the jaguars that guard the Rivers of Blood, the route to freedom.
Hephaestus survives the jaguars and returns to Mount Olympus only to see Zeus is in charge. They battle.
Thor and other Asgardians crash the party with the intent to “… kill everyone on this mountain.”
Thor decapitates Hephaestus, saying “This is a hammer.” Zeus falls in battle. The day belongs to the Norse. The conquerors return to Asgard and are greeted by Hephaestus, his head held in place by a medical Halo. He’s not alone. He’s allied himself with Gods of different pantheons. More bloodshed.
Backup features include Eros, the cannibal God of the North, Sasquatch, and Deer Women.
This volume is full of the violence and sex we’ve come to expect from this series and some fun moments too (That Jesus…). If you enjoyed the previous volumes, you should like this one too.
Collects issues 13-18
That Jesus.
Page one. First victim. Jesus. Yes, that Jesus. Shot in the head. The shooter, Albert, defends his actions,”… we don’t need him… We saved the World.”
Three days and a few pages later, Jesus is back. “I thought for sure all you guys had read my book.” Best line this volume.
Jesus brings the whole world back from the dead but the Returned are unable to die again. That poses some problems. Would you want to live with a sword embedded in your skull or missing half your face courtesy of a gun blast? Resurrection isn’t what it used to be.
Albert reunites with his resurrected family.
In the Aztec Realm of the Dead, Hephaestus betrays Athena, using her as bait for the jaguars that guard the Rivers of Blood, the route to freedom.
Hephaestus survives the jaguars and returns to Mount Olympus only to see Zeus is in charge. They battle.
Thor and other Asgardians crash the party with the intent to “… kill everyone on this mountain.”
Thor decapitates Hephaestus, saying “This is a hammer.” Zeus falls in battle. The day belongs to the Norse. The conquerors return to Asgard and are greeted by Hephaestus, his head held in place by a medical Halo. He’s not alone. He’s allied himself with Gods of different pantheons. More bloodshed.
Backup features include Eros, the cannibal God of the North, Sasquatch, and Deer Women.
This volume is full of the violence and sex we’ve come to expect from this series and some fun moments too (That Jesus…). If you enjoyed the previous volumes, you should like this one too.
April 14, 2020
Hippy Jesus is amusing but basically a cliche. Again, this feels like something I'd be proud of to have written in high school or early college, but later ashamed off.
It's a sophomoric understanding of religion and eschatology with a lot of nudity, violence and sex.
The earth begins to die due to Gaia's death, but people pray for salvation! Jesus returns and returns everything dead back to life. An interesting idea that's nowhere near as explored as it should be...
It's a sophomoric understanding of religion and eschatology with a lot of nudity, violence and sex.
The earth begins to die due to Gaia's death, but people pray for salvation! Jesus returns and returns everything dead back to life. An interesting idea that's nowhere near as explored as it should be...
November 29, 2018
The middle section of this volume wasn't as interesting as the first two, mostly because it featured the same characters as the first volume and they were doing the exact same things. The best character shows up toward the end, so I assume he'll be the primary focus of the next volume.
June 11, 2019
I don’t even know what this comic book is about at this point. The art is verrryyyyy male gaze. I want to keep reading just to see what happens
August 9, 2022
I'm hooked enough to keep on reading, but the story is stupid... and I'm okay with that.
May 25, 2023
Sigo pensando que los dibujantes parecen vírgenes
October 14, 2023
Un 3 con mucho esfuerzo. Creo que le daré una última oportunidad, ya que la historia se empezó a repetir.
August 29, 2015
Zeus stapt de Sint-Pietersbasiliek binnen, en hij is niet content.
Huitzilopochtli, Tezcatlipoca en Quetzalcoatl zijn terug op aarde, en de mensenoffers zijn terug van weggeweest. Odin en het Noorse pantheon zien het al helemaal zitten om de wereld te verdelen. Afrika is onderworpen aan Horus, Anubis en consoorten. En in Azië hebben Brahma, Shiva en Vishnu hun machtsbasis.
Ah, en ergens daartussen zitten ook nog mensen, en legers, en een groep wetenschappers die het godenprobleem wetenschappelijk willen oplossen — door zélf goden te maken, bijvoorbeeld.
Fijn idee. Bijzonder weinig voorspelbaar ook: alles en iedereen kan er van het ene op het andere moment aan gaan.
En daar wringt het. Soms gaat het té snel naar mijn goesting: figuren die ik toch graag een tijd zou hebben zien meegaan, krijgen vaak geen tijd om meer te zijn dan een snelle cameo. En in één flagrant geval kreeg een toch redelijk belangrijke god maar letterlijk één beeldje, gedomme.
Niet verkeerd, nee. Maar wel enorm veel gemiste kansen, in een soort poging om alles nóg sneller, nóg minder voorspelbaar (en met nóg meer geweld) te brengen.
Huitzilopochtli, Tezcatlipoca en Quetzalcoatl zijn terug op aarde, en de mensenoffers zijn terug van weggeweest. Odin en het Noorse pantheon zien het al helemaal zitten om de wereld te verdelen. Afrika is onderworpen aan Horus, Anubis en consoorten. En in Azië hebben Brahma, Shiva en Vishnu hun machtsbasis.
Ah, en ergens daartussen zitten ook nog mensen, en legers, en een groep wetenschappers die het godenprobleem wetenschappelijk willen oplossen — door zélf goden te maken, bijvoorbeeld.
Fijn idee. Bijzonder weinig voorspelbaar ook: alles en iedereen kan er van het ene op het andere moment aan gaan.
En daar wringt het. Soms gaat het té snel naar mijn goesting: figuren die ik toch graag een tijd zou hebben zien meegaan, krijgen vaak geen tijd om meer te zijn dan een snelle cameo. En in één flagrant geval kreeg een toch redelijk belangrijke god maar letterlijk één beeldje, gedomme.
Niet verkeerd, nee. Maar wel enorm veel gemiste kansen, in een soort poging om alles nóg sneller, nóg minder voorspelbaar (en met nóg meer geweld) te brengen.
January 1, 2015
In which Jesus returns, only to discover that we're now extremely trigger happy. Not to worry though, the hoodied hippy has that whole resurrection thing going on - as does everyone else now too (Jesus! Probably don't get quite so baked before your next big decision, yeah?), leading us to our next problem: If you can't die, then life is just unending suffering.
Which is the case everywhere: after some meddling by Hephaestus down in the Aztec Realm of the Dead, the gods are back for yet another supernatural smackdown, while the destruction unleashed upon Gaia in the second volume means that Earth is on its way out too...
What to do? Looks like I'll have to buy the next Volume to find out.
**Also posted at Randomly Reading and Ranting**
Which is the case everywhere: after some meddling by Hephaestus down in the Aztec Realm of the Dead, the gods are back for yet another supernatural smackdown, while the destruction unleashed upon Gaia in the second volume means that Earth is on its way out too...
What to do? Looks like I'll have to buy the next Volume to find out.
**Also posted at Randomly Reading and Ranting**
June 8, 2015
I'm thinking that the best days of this series are past. The initial premise was interesting, and volume one was pretty good, but the rest seems to have been pretty lackluster, mostly an exercise in showing blood and boobs. This series needs a bit more spark. Just imagine if Warren Ellis were writing this, or Garth Ennis. Heck, just imagine what underground legend S. Clay Wilson could do with a premise like this. My point is, this is inherently transgressive material, and it really wants to revel in it more than it does. It needs more of a twisted imagination at the helm. I am enjoying the backup stories, almost more so than the main storyline.
January 11, 2015
The separate story threads are becoming more defined, but the resurrection of the gods just caused a repeat of previous events.
August 5, 2015
Creo que nunca va a levantar esta serie por completo.
September 4, 2015
It's pretty fun, seeing the gods and people interacting and chaos. But the arts a bit porno which really detracts.
March 26, 2016
Best part about this was Hippy Jesus.
June 3, 2016
This is painfully bad. On all levels. Nope. Just nope nope nope nope.
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