{"id":35115,"date":"2026-04-15T12:46:56","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T17:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=35115"},"modified":"2026-04-13T08:47:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T13:47:25","slug":"book-report-heroes-of-the-bible-by-adam-boggs-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/15\/book-report-heroes-of-the-bible-by-adam-boggs-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: <i>Heroes of the Bible<\/i> by Adam Boggs (2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/heroesofthebible.jpg\" width=\"200\" alt=\"Book cover\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\">The artist of this book is the son of someone we knew from church in Old Trees, and when their Christmas letter indicated that he&#8217;d done a comic book, a book of comic art that is and not a saddle-stitched comic book, I ordered it on the pretense of giving it to my children, and I took possession when I culled my youngest&#8217;s bedroom of books and children&#8217;s books earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>This particular volume is mostly comic <em>art<\/em>; it lists heroes (men and women) of the Bible and has a comic art portrait of them.  A few selected heroes have a portion of their stories in a single page of related panels, but mostly it&#8217;s portraits.<\/p>\n<p>So, yeah, much like a modern comic book.  But it&#8217;s a quick palate cleanser after <em>Love&#8217;s Labour&#8217;s Lost<\/em>, the most recent Shakespeare play I read (thoughts forthcoming), and <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/13\/book-report-a-deadly-shade-of-gold-by-john-d-macdonald-1965-1974\/\" target=\"_new\"><em>A Deadly Shade of Gold<\/em><\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>Now, about the arbitrary rules:  I will count it as a book I&#8217;ve read this year, and I will put them on the bookshelves instead of comic boxes (unlike the <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/02\/so-what-to-do-with-these-then\/\" target=\"_new\">Bongo Simpsons comics<\/a>, which have a flat spine and more actual content than this book).  Why?  Because I wanna.<\/p>\n<p>I see Boggs has not only produced more similar (and probably with actual plotting) Biblical comics, a Western-looking comic book, <em>and<\/em> a book about being a business artist in the AI-world.  Ah, gentle reader!  If I ever get a job and have disposable income again, I shall consider buying more of his work if I can avoid Amazon.com (I&#8217;m back fighting my tweehad against it).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The artist of this book is the son of someone we knew from church in Old Trees, and when their Christmas letter indicated that he&#8217;d done a comic book, a book of comic art that is and not a saddle-stitched comic book, I ordered it on the pretense of giving it to my children, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35116,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35115\/revisions\/35116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}