Here's the soliciation text, followed by links to an interview with Rushkoff regarding the comic, and a short page of annotations about the comic as well.
Quote:
"From the imagination of best-selling author Douglas Rushkoff, one of the most iconoclastic and acclaimed minds of our era, comes a series that exposes the "real" Bible as it was actually written, and reveals how its mythic tales are repeated today.
Grad student Jake Stern leads an underground band of renegades who use any means necessary to combat the frightening threats to freedom that permeate the world of TESTAMENT - a world very much like our own. They employ technology, alchemy, media hacking and mysticism, discovering a modern threat that has its roots in ancient stories destined to recur in the modern age.
With intricate, darkly detailed art by Liam Sharp, TESTAMENT takes place in an unapologetically uncensored Biblical universe, chronicling the grim confrontations between humans and their angry gods. Those horrifying encounters full of murder, magic, monsters, sex and sacrifice, echo the forces at work beneath the surface of today's high-tech and highly ideological conflicts.
In a story as thrilling as it is sure to be controversial, Jake must overcome romantic, psychic, supernatural and epic obstacles on his way to uncovering the reality behind an eternal story in which he, and all of us, are trapped."
Grad student Jake Stern leads an underground band of renegades who use any means necessary to combat the frightening threats to freedom that permeate the world of TESTAMENT - a world very much like our own. They employ technology, alchemy, media hacking and mysticism, discovering a modern threat that has its roots in ancient stories destined to recur in the modern age.
With intricate, darkly detailed art by Liam Sharp, TESTAMENT takes place in an unapologetically uncensored Biblical universe, chronicling the grim confrontations between humans and their angry gods. Those horrifying encounters full of murder, magic, monsters, sex and sacrifice, echo the forces at work beneath the surface of today's high-tech and highly ideological conflicts.
In a story as thrilling as it is sure to be controversial, Jake must overcome romantic, psychic, supernatural and epic obstacles on his way to uncovering the reality behind an eternal story in which he, and all of us, are trapped."
Douglas Rushkoff on Testament
Testament Annotations
I enjoyed the first issue myself. It didn't quite blow me away, but it was interesting and definately left me wanting to know more. It also left me wanting to check out Rushkoff's book, Nothing Sacred: The Truth About Judaism I've heard good things about the book, and I'm getting the odd feeling that the series is based off of theories put forth in the book, not to the degree where you need to read the book to understand the comic, but it just seems like one of those things were it would help. Kind of like how it's not required that you be familiar with d**k, Wilson, DeSade, etc. to read and understand The Invisibles, but it certainly doesn't hurt..
On a vaguely related note, Rushkoff's going to be doing a series of radio interviews in support of the release of a new book of his, not Testament. A list of the dates and stations can be found here for those interested.
