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Loaded Bible: Jesus vs. Vampires One-Shot
Writer: Tim Seeley
Pencils: Nate Bellegarde
Finishes: Mark Englert
“In the near future, the United States is ruled by
bloodsucking vampire hordes and only one man can end their
reign of terror.”
“What would Jesus do?”
“He’d kick Vampire ass.”
Plot:
After 9/11, Americans who fear Muslim extremists vote in a
president that they feel will allow Christianity to rule the
day over these “heathens”. This president attacks foreign
countries in the name of God and puts down these devil
hordes. When people begin to realize that vampires are among
us the government creates a special council to defeat them.
When the vampires attempt to assassinate the council, all
hell breaks loose and they nuke everything. In the future,
Jesus comes down to save the human race from these vampires
(who survived because they are immune to radiation) in the
form of a sword wielding action hero with a message.
*48 Christ-tacular pages*
Review: (sarcasm alert) Thank God. It is about
time that a comic book, television show, news story, etc.
comes out that denigrates our government and attempts to
reduce Christianity to a bunch of catchy slogans and bumper
stickers. I was starting to wonder if someone would ever be
courageous and “edgy” enough to attempt it. Kudos…
Now that I got that out of my system, let’s actually review
the book. The above rant notwithstanding, I actually enjoyed
the book. Very well rounded characters, beautiful artwork by
Nate Bellegarde and Mark Englert, and as an action story I
was turning the pages at a pretty quick pace. The bad puns
and heavy-handed anti-establishment panels were a little
much. The only thing missing was a reference to “kicking ass
for the lord”. But that would have just been silly. At least
Tim Seeley seems to have a sense of humor about what he is
doing. The action and the message are evenly dispersed
throughout the book without ever mixing so it is easy to
move past the sermons (irony) and on to Jesus kicking a
little ass. You should pick up this book if you agree with
the political opinion of its writer or are just a person
that really can’t take political messages in a book about a
sword wielding Jesus killing vampires very seriously.
Because, in context, it is actually a pretty good read.
Special thanks go out to Jeremy Shorr, owner of
Titan Comics for allowing us to use his advance
preview books for review purposes.
