Noah: The Graphic Novel
And God said to Noah… I'm makin' it rain, bitch! Woop woop!
Despite generally having zero interest in anything related to religious chicanery and cultish flimflammery—especially from the one that is currently being wielded by ugly and rabid fascists in order to set up a White Nationalist nation—I really loved Darren Aronofsky’s Noah.
Big fan.
Noah is a bold post-apocalyptic-flavored fantasy that re-envisions the familiar fable from Christian Mythology, setting it in a distant era of ancient magics, alien vistas, and strange monsters. It is a time that has been poisoned by the wickedness, filth, and greed of humanity, the once-favored creature who were cut loose from paradise, and have now spread across the face of the new Earth like a cancerous rot. This unfettered corruption has brought the first Great Age of Man grinding to a halt.
For gazing down upon the blighted wreckage of this once bountiful celestial garden, sneering at the hot stink of this wretched civilization, is a bloody-minded god who has decided that they must punish this broken-down world, that they must smash it all asunder, wiping it all away, and begin again.
To do this, they have decided to drown the world.
Noah, of course, is one of the few men of true virtue left, and he is the chosen one, told through a holy vision to build an Ark, so that he can take his family and two of every creature, great and small, so that they may all survive the coming flood. Then, once the waters recede, he will start the world anew.
How Noah and his family are supposed to start the world anew, as there are only four men and two women left alive, and one of those two women is directly related to three of the men…? Heaven knows, I guess…
Anyway, created in order to demonstrate his vision before the cameras rolled on the film, artist Niko Henrichon takes Darren Aronofsky’s story and brings it to life. The comic is both an amazing-looking alternate version of the film that came after, as well as a glimpse into its rough and unfinished heart, and all while truly being its own fantastic thing.
Definitely worth checking out.
