http://sequart.org advancing comics as art Sun, 19 Apr 2026 18:44:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/65683/the-goddamned-5-no-happy-endings/ http://sequart.org/magazine/65683/the-goddamned-5-no-happy-endings/#comments Fri, 20 Jan 2017 19:10:32 +0000 Ian Dawe http://sequart.org/?p=65683 “I’m Cain, the man who invented murder. But God invented me, so ask yourself: who’s the real asshole here?” If readers expected the story of Jason Aaron and r. m. Guera’s The Goddamned to take… [more]]]> 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/63744/the-goddamned-4-you-dont-mess-with-noah/ http://sequart.org/magazine/63744/the-goddamned-4-you-dont-mess-with-noah/#comments Wed, 01 Jun 2016 19:10:36 +0000 Ian Dawe http://sequart.org/?p=63744 The Goddamned is one of two major comics that have recently offered us a reimagined version of the Biblical character Noah. The other book — Darren Aronofsky’s Noah, which was also made into a big… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/63293/the-goddamned-3-the-mark-of-cain/ http://sequart.org/magazine/63293/the-goddamned-3-the-mark-of-cain/#comments Thu, 07 Apr 2016 15:15:03 +0000 Ian Dawe http://sequart.org/?p=63293 Jason Aaron’s The Goddamned is best described as a cross between the Bible and Mad Max, with all the brutality and wit that implies. But somehow it goes so far into the depths of inhumanity… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/62450/the-goddamned-2-sin-and-redemption/ http://sequart.org/magazine/62450/the-goddamned-2-sin-and-redemption/#comments Wed, 13 Jan 2016 19:45:49 +0000 Ian Dawe http://sequart.org/?p=62450 Who are “the goddamned”, referenced in rm Guera and Jason Aaron’s The Goddamned? This ultra-violent re-interpretation of the Old Testament is faithful to the original text in the sense that the goddamned are really all… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/62333/my-pick-for-the-best-comic-of-2015-invisible-republic/ http://sequart.org/magazine/62333/my-pick-for-the-best-comic-of-2015-invisible-republic/#comments Sat, 02 Jan 2016 19:00:26 +0000 Ian Dawe http://sequart.org/?p=62333 “Beware the best-of list”, Shakespeare once wrote. Or he should have. There are deep problems with basing one’s opinion of the literature worth reading on one critic’s list of the “best” of the year, most… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/61227/the-goddamned-the-bible-as-youve-never-seen-it-before/ http://sequart.org/magazine/61227/the-goddamned-the-bible-as-youve-never-seen-it-before/#comments Thu, 12 Nov 2015 20:30:24 +0000 Ian Dawe http://sequart.org/?p=61227 Anyone of a certain inclination who has read the Old Testament can’t help but come away thinking of it as pretty “metal”, to coin a phrase. Fights to the death, plagues, burning cities, vendettas, and… [more]]]> 0