I'm going to story time one of my all time favorite comics, The Goddamned. It's a post-apocalyptic biblical story about what Cain was up to after he killed his brother and left his family.
Story Time: The Goddamned
Nicholas Lopez
William Sanders
Juan Mitchell
We open with a very nice metaphor for humanity before the Great Flood: a fetid pond of filth.
Julian Gonzalez
Our hero has been drowning in the Shit Pit for some time.
Charles Perry
Making Cain an attractive blue-eyed man of Nordic appearance certainly stands in the face of fundamentalist racists. They often consider Cainites, (those descendant of Cain), to be "inferior" minority races. I think this is a deliberate subversion.
Luis Adams
Joseph Morgan
Zachary Wright
Matthew Powell
There's a lot of information to get out of this splash page. This is a comic that benefits from being read carefully, and slowly. Its dialogue and narration is sparse, so there's a lot of room for visual details to tell the story.
Matthew Johnson
This is one of my favorite fights ever depicted in sequential art. I've poured over these pages at least a dozen times before just to learn everything it can teach me.
Bentley Edwards
Adam Davis
Josiah Cruz
Interesting how different the art looks digitally compared to the actual printed TPB. There's a lot of neat touches I didn't really notice in previous readings.
Jose Ward
Ayden Fisher
Cooper Rogers
Jaxon Russell
David Clark
Ethan Phillips
Caleb Baker
Jaxon Lopez
The color transition from day to night is really pretty in these pages.
Alexander Davis
Jackson Clark
William Johnson
Samuel Reyes
Kayden Perez
Mason Lee
Oddly enough, Noah is the antagonist of this story. I like how he looks like he's Samoan.
Ayden Taylor
Luke Butler
If you're reading, and you like it, give the thread a bump! I'll post more if you'd like, you just have to ask.
Carter Barnes
i'm going to bed now user, i'll read this tomorrow, thanks for posting!
Jeremiah Long
That's it for now.
Dylan Fisher
Is this a sequel to The Damned, and is there a trilogy cap named The God Fucking Damned?
Ayden Brooks
Please post more when possible. I'm very much enjoying this. Thanks
Jason Lee
There is a new arc coming this year, COVID-willing
Ian Butler
Thanks, user! I'll go on ahead and post the second issue and see if we get more interest in here!
Nicholas Ramirez
Sirf this comic have any theme or meaning behind it, or was it just violence and fighting?
Christian Hughes
Do you need anything more? I don't.
Lucas Davis
Oh, you!
No problem! Is this your first time reading?
I have heard rumors of a sequel in the works. Who knows? I don't keep up with comics like I used to-- it's just so tiring. I generally show up three to five times a year and buy a huge stack of TPB's.
Juan Rogers
Old Testament God bless you, user. The Goddamned is like an exploitation movie: not as polished or artsy as some comics, but it's got that "fuck what you think" spirit going on and it's worthy of respect.
The Goddamned: The Virgin Brides. It won't contain Cain as the protagonist like Before the Flood, but I'm looking forward to Aaron and Guera's work regardless. I've already asked my LCS to put it on the pull-list.
Camden Sanders
The overall theme is a very nihilistic one-- humanity is doomed and God is an inept deity.
Jason Reed
I want to fuck that malformed cat abomination!
Tyler Lewis
It's a very mid-2000s edgy atheist theme.
In short: People are shit, believing in God or doing his bidding doesn't mean you're good and beyond malice, the good will be fucked over by the strong.
James Long
Biblical fiction by non-believers is an interesting genre.
Angel Allen
The proto-human "Ape Men" you see in this series are great.
Daniel Johnson
Noah is pretty badass in his own right.
Ethan Fisher
It really is. It has the chance to be good if the writer focuses on characters and how they deal with a life under the OT circumstances with an angry god above them. Or it can be shit where the entire message is: God = evil.
So far, Aaron has done more of the former, and little of the latter, in my opinion.
My headcanon is that they're so corrupted by sin they've moved closer to animals in terms of base behavior.
David Mitchell
Ryder Reyes
I could do without the excessive swearing, but neat otherwise.
Tyler Butler
The real answer is the artist needs convenient ways to make each character stand out from the rest.
Kayden Campbell
The modern swearing doesn't fit the setting, but I think it illustrates well how the world has degenerated since the exile from the Garden of Eden.
I don't think that's accurate. Guera looks like too good of an artist to need a shorthand like that. Mind you, it is helpful, but I think it was a deliberate artistic choice on top of a practical one.
Brandon Nguyen
We have no idea what sort of languages people spoke before the invention of writing. The writer can only compromise by using the modern approximation, which is blatant vulgarity. These are godless heathens, after all. Would you expect less?
It's like in Deadwood how every other word is "cocksucker", because if the actors used period-correct swearing they'd end up sounding like Yosemite Sam.