Left Behind

(Tyndale House, 2001-2002)
™ and © Tyndale House Publishers
Book 1. Story continues as Tribulation Force Book 2.

Though Judeo-Christian values are behind most super-hero comics, those beliefs don’t often take center stage. More often, Christianity is just another “mythology” to be used, best exemplified by the comic book Inferno, created by someone who can imagine damnation for all mankind without the possibility of Heaven.

So an honest series about Christians and their relationship with God would be more than welcome. Unfortunately, what this provides is just a comic-book adaptation of the Left Behind novels. Although thoroughly professional in execution, they suffer from being too close to the source material.

Like the novels, here the Christians are cardboard cutouts and the story a lugubrious disaster movie married to a perfunctory thriller, where the villain isn’t so much the Antichrist as a rampant godless one-worldism (aided and abetted by an “international moneyman” — code for “Jewish banker”). Good Christian literature inspires, enlightens, and comforts; this panders to those who gloat over their easy answers.

—S.A. Bennett

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