The Action Bible

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Many different publishers have been creating their own comic book Bibles and each have their own unique take. Largely regarded as the “most popular” comic book Bible, The Action Bible has quality artwork and an engaging story, often “filling in the blanks” left by the Bible with a unique twist that provides an entertaining biblical scene.

As a seminary graduate who studied the original languages, I am not closed to new Bible translations. Our Voyage Blog is devoted to “testing everything” and finding God in popular entertainment, focusing on comics, fantasy and sci-fi. Similar to The Action Bible, the Kingstone Biblehas high-quality artwork, but instead of focusing on a narrative-style presentation of the Bible, Kingstone is presented as, “the world’s most complete graphic novel Bible. While the Bible had a few adaptations in the mid-20th century, it has received a renewed interest during the last 10 years.

If you want to introduce your children to the overarching “story” of the Bible, The Action Bible hits it perfectly. Similar in concept to the Word for Word Bible Comic, the Catholic Comic Book Bible published by Tan Books (St.

The biggest problem, though, was that, in many of the stories, too much was implied instead of shown. For me that’s huge because I want my kids to know the importance and primacy of the Word of God while also being able to enjoy illustrated Bible stories. The Action Bible has been translated into 29 languages and is distributed in 32 countries by David C. In the original review, I said I was unsure if I enjoyed the illustrations but as I said they’ve grown on me and my oldest daughter loves to read out of this storybook.The authors of the Action Bible have added this scene to portray Eve as an foolish and emotional woman and Adam as the intelligent male. She absolutely loved the non-cutesy graphic novel style illustrations and speech bubble conversations. The NT is already mostly chronological but it brings a bigger picture by weaving the Letters throughout Acts. For many years, it published a Christian comic book, Sunday Pix, with stories about the adventures of Christian heroes in many different eras and in many parts of the world.