The Book of Enoch

The Book of Enoch by Robert Henry (R. H.) Charles

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


The Book of Enoch is a transitional piece of apocalyptica (!) written smack between the passage from Judaism to Christianity. So you have Sheol and not Hell, no Jesus but yes Son of God and so on. Some of the texts are as weird as the heaviest of the Nag Hammadi scriptures but in essence, tell of the same story of the time briefly described in Genesis, when the Nephilim came down from heaven and took human wives and worse, taught men agriculture, metal working, writing and so on. An A-level text for all "they came from outer space" nuts :)



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Le Capitaine Ecarlate by David B.

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


david b. 's hallucinatory dimension in which supernatural events are as common as buying bread for the morning breakfast decorates this tribute to schwob and enigmatic figures of french criminal literary figures or, grandfathers of genet. especially two panels stand out as pure visual and verbal poetry. Although I deeply admire david b.'s own artwork, the pencil here (emmanuel guibert) has added a does of cute a la Hergé, thus balancing beautifully the eeriness of the plot with a nostalgia for childhood pirate fantasies. For me, this was a re-kindling of my late childhood where j. verne reigned supreme.



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