
Boing Boing featured two versions of Manga bible tracts over the past few days and it reminded me of the illustrated version I had as a kid — which never looked this interesting.

Anything to get those crazy kids to learn about the word, right? Reminds me of Ned Flander's religious trading cards:
Bart: Oh boy! Free trading cards!
Milhouse: Wow! Joseph of Arimathea! Twenty six conversions in A.D. 46.
Nelson: Whoa, a Methuselah rookie card!
Flanders: Heh heh, well boys, who'd have thought learning about religion could be fun?
Bart: Religion?
Milhouse: Learning?
Nelson: Let's get out of here!
A student in my myth class last term did a manga version of Thetis trying to prevent Achilles' joining the Trojan War.
ReplyDeleteI'm actually surprised I haven't seen anything like this before. Interesting.
ReplyDeleteGreek myths are just ripe for reinterpretation - look at the success of 300. Classic tales will always be retold.
ReplyDeleteWhat Would Speed Racer Do?
ReplyDeleteSpeed Race built my hotrod...
ReplyDeleteSo there was only one thing that I could do
Was ding a ding dang my dang a long ling long