I don’t know about you but I’ve read a few books and seen a few shows/movies about the second coming of Jeebus so I’m familiar with the setup. And maybe that’s partly why I was so bored with American Jeebus: The New Mess, because it doesn’t add anything fresh to this subgenre, but it’s also just a really boring and unimaginative comic, like a lot of Mark Millar’s recent work.
So it’s the usual routine: virgin birth, angel Gabriel, antichrist, oh god I’m yawning already… anyway this time Jeebus is a black girl! That’s really it for the “plot”. Millar weaves recent history into his dull narrative - Waco was really about an attempt at taking out the new messiah and 9/11 was part of the antichrist’s devious plan to get the ball rolling on having us all microchipped or something astoopid.
The story is plodding and never engaging. Nothing interesting happens until the generic bad guy shows up at the end for an X-Men 2 rip-off scene. The art is fugly - Millar’s worked with some of the finest comics artists around today on his Image titles; Peter Gross is definitely not among them.
A dreary slog from tedious start to tedious finish. Now that you can ignore American Jeebus the comic you can soon ignore the TV show when it arrives on Netflix. Another Gross Millar crapfest!
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