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King David by Kyle Baker

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Also by Kyle Baker:

How to Draw Stupid and Other Essentials of Cartooning, July 2008
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Nat Turner, June 2008
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The Bakers, February 2008
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Nat Turner Book 2: Revolution, March 2007
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The Bakers, February 2007
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King David, April 2002
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You Are Here, November 1998
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King David
Kyle Baker

Vertigo
April 2002
On Sale: April 1, 2002
104 pages
ISBN: 1563898667
EAN: 9781563898662
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The story of David and Goliath has a ring of inevitability about it that handicaps most attempts at retelling. But Kyle Baker's comic book version of King David renders that classic confrontation in 17 wordless pages, comprising one of the freshest, most suspenseful and thrilling descriptions of its subject that you are likely to find. King David is a biblically accurate, freewheeling, color-saturated biography of the boy who rose to become king of Israel. David begins the book as a scruffyDennis-the-Menace-like kid and ends the book as a vain, hunky womanizer; King Saul is a glam-rock tyrant; his son Jonathan is a skinny punk rebel. (When he asks to borrow Saul's chariot and the king asks, "Where are you going, Jonathan?" he shoots back, "Out.") Many parents will deem the book's bloody battle scenes inappropriate for young readers. King David's candor, however, is a virtue. This is real religious literature: it describes David's relationship with God in a style that's fully alive for readers today. --Paul Power

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