"The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb"

The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb (Text by, I guess, God; Illustrated by, yes, R. Crumb)

 Just like the title says: Here's all 50 chapters of the Book of Genesis in graphic novel format. The cover promises that nothing will be left out, and it isn't; You get everything from God creating the heaven and the earth in chapter 1 to Joseph dying in chapter 50 (spoiler alert). In between, you have the Flood, Sodom and Gomorrah getting destroyed (with awesome pictures), and people begatting each other. Really, the only downside of the book is that whoever wrote Genesis is obsessed with this, so you have a bunch of material that's just people begatting the shit out of each other. This means Genesis is full of lists of who begat who, and even R. Crumb can only do so much with pages of this, although he does make it easy to skip with postage stamp-sized pictures of all the people who were begatted. Otherwise, this is a great book, and Crumb's art style fits the material much better than I anticipated (after all, I guess this was before the bra was invented). Absolutely not for kids, but - and I'm going to give this book points just for letting me write this sentence - not to be missed by Bible fans and R. Crumb enthusiasts.

Grade: A