Reviews

Testament, Vol. 2: West of Eden by Peter Gross, Douglas Rushkoff, Gary Erskine, Liam Sharp

hellsfire's review

2.0

If you want to know my opinion on it, listen to Episode 48 of V for Vertigo at http://vforvertigo.blogspot.com

shane_tiernan's review

3.0

This is pretty interesting. I like the manna/money idea, Rushkoff seems to really dig this kind of future speculation and he's good at it.

This graphic novel followed the Joseph story from the Bible pretty closely but there were hints at the end that the future books would be "new" stories. So maybe Rushkoff got sick of having to bend his modern story to parallel the Bible stories? Definitely curious as to how it all turns out.

eldang's review

3.0

I found this the weakest of the four books in the generally impressive Testament series, mainly because the technobabble that is a minor irritant in Vol. 1 picks up in intensity, to the point of actually being quite distracting. Some of it's just that a little mysteriousness is just fine, especially in a book based on religious scriptures (some of the tech reminded me of midichlorians...), and some of it's that the specific things the tech was given credit for just don't make sense. I suppose I was hypersensitive to it because what Alan Stern is depicting as trying to do at the start is more or less the grotesque version of what my PhD was going to be all about, as perceived by people who don't understand the work and fear things they don't understand....