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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