Hosted by Diamond BookShelf, the February edition of “Noe’s Comics Nook” included a rousing assessment of The Prophet for classrooms and libraries. Here is an excerpt:
This adaptation of The Prophet accomplishes what surprisingly few comics adaptations manage: elevation of the original. More than simply presenting the work to a new audience, with a few neat illustrations thrown in, the team of A. David Lewis and Justin Rentería have broadened the story and provided visual metaphors that help the poetry sing to the reader. Rentería draws a world free of modern technology, set in an Ottoman-esque world, that even for those of us who have never been to such a place feels real and accessible. There is a power in this, the ability to draw the reader into a world where the people, even in the background, could be your neighbors.
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The Prophet is due out June 2023 from Graphic Mundi.
