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Having Fun with the Great Flood: Noah’s Brother’s Ark

Noah's Brother's ArkOn the lighter side of comics and religious adaptations, looks no further then the webcomic Noah’s Brother’s Ark. The story is precisely as billed: Noah’s brother Leon has his own ship, an ark with a jacuzzi, “bilingual puppet show,” and snacks galore — when Bigfoot isn’t eating all of it. While not quite a “scholarly” consideration of the biblical/Qur’anic tale, it does take the proverbial wind out the sails from overblown, overwrought adaptations of the same material, whether that be The God-Damned, Noah, or even Some New Kind of Slaughter.

That said, if your reading of the Great Flood feels lacking in chupacabras, dinosaurs, or aliens, then this treat by Andy Hunter might do the trick. It’s a nice breath of fresh air!

Spider-Man the Crypto-Jew

Over at Slate, Arie Kaplan considers whether Spider-Man is Jewish, based on input from actor Andrew Garfield, novelist Michael Chabon, and producer Avi Arad. Or, at the very least, is he a “crypto-Jew,” especially considering his brand of humor? Read more here.

(Thanks to Steve Bergson, editor of The Jewish Comix Anthology and proprietor of the Jewish Comics blog for spotting this one. I think he’d appreciate the relevance of the clip below.)

R.I.P. Hellboy?

A very amusing Gutters webcomic on the (temporary) death of Hellboy:

Gutters #176 by Ryan Sohmer, David Namisato, Richard Clark, and Rus Wooton

Hellboy creator Mike Mignola has said, “this isn’t the end of Hellboy, both the character and the comic, even though he’s now dead.” Still, funny, funny stuff from The Gutters.