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Jesusfreak Out Tomorrow – Will FOX News Notice Again? (Preview)

Jesusfreak by Joe Casey and Benjamin Marra is published by Image Comics tomorrow. If was featured on FOX And Friends a few weeks ago, in what seemed to be an attemot to get another outrage machine going as they succeeded with for The Second Comics, no longer coming out from DC Comics, but delayed and sidelined to smaller publisher Ahoy Comics.

They may not have had as much attention for their story about a very violent Jesus Christ, but they did at least get a piece on the show and an uptick in orders as a result.

Tomorrow, they'll see if it was worth it.

Jesusfreak is a bloody, two-fisted tale of heroic historical fiction featuring a certain young Nazarean carpenter who is having some trouble finding his place within a world of ever increasing violence. He knows he's different… he just doesn't know why. Image Comics will publish the original graphic novel as a 64-page, full color hardcover retailing for $17.99 in comic book stores tomorrow and in bookstores on March 26th,

Let's have some quotes and a preview of the comic.

"Joe Casey has long thrived on the bold frontier of new ideas and JESUSFREAK is yet another pearl of pure creativity for us to enjoy. What he's accomplished with Benjamin Marra is a spectacle worthy of your attention, no matter who you are, or what you like."― Robert Kirkman (WALKING DEAD)

"Wild and wooly and somehow still holy, too. What a blast." ― Victor LaValle (THE BALLAD OF BLACK TOM)

"Unique, experimental and utterly fascinating." ― HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

"This Jesus is a far cry from the one featured in the New Testament."― IRISH POST

"The most unexpected book of the year – a Jodorowsky-like story of Jesus done in the style of Moench & Gulacy's Shang-Chi. Mad enough to start a cult of its own." ― Warren Ellis

"Get ready for an entirely different take on history's ultimate origin story."― SYFY

"Jesus Christ meets Bruce Lee – part Jack T. Chick, part Masters of Kung Fu, all hell-raising fury! Joe Casey and Ben Marra turn the New Testament into a blood-soaked, vengeance-driven graphic novel epic masterpiece using the vernacular of 1970s comic books and b-movies. Comic book fans and God-fearing Christians rejoice – your prayers have been answered!"― Jim Rugg (STREET ANGEL)

"JESUSFREAK answers the eternal question of what would happen if Christ came to save the world with kung fu."― Mark Russell (GOD IS DISAPPOINTED IN YOU)

"Partially inspired by the martial-arts comics craze of the '70s, Jesusfreak reimagines Jesus' journey as a Bruce Lee-style combat gauntlet, with blood to spare." ― PASTE MAGAZINE

"Casey and Marra are MacGregor and Gulacy for the '10s."

― Tom Scioli (GO-BOTS)

"Jesus Christ has been written as the son of God, a messiah, and sometimes just a simple carpenter. But in … JESUSFREAK he has been reimagined – 'rebooted' even, to borrow a comic book term – as something utterly different (and possibly sacreligious): action hero. Writer Joe Casey, artist Benjamin Marra, and colorist Brad Sampson's dramatic new take on the biblical hero has him Ric Flair-chopping his enemies, kicking evil in the face, and backflipping like a ninja." ― NEWSARAMA

"Crazy." ― FOX NEWS

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