A review by svarnyp
Apocrypha Now by Mark Russell

4.0

I enjoyed the abridged and lightweight version of apocrypha texts. As I had the chance to read the transcriptions of some of the texts (e.g., Judas), I think the book manages to capture the main ideas of them well. The small jokes are pleasant, while not really interfering with the main text, and they really remind me of someone retelling me a classical story in his own words. I enjoyed very much the epilogue that contained historical context for late antiquity history of Jews and Christians. However, the comics that illustrated the book seemed to me often as just random and not connected to the story at all. This disconnect often interrupted the flow of the storytelling. Although as isolated comics they are nice, I found them to be too often disturbing in the book.