Testament was an American ongoing comic book series written by Douglas Rushkoff with art and covers by Liam Sharp. It was published from February 2006 to March 2008 under DC Comics' Vertigo imprint.
There are several key themes to Testament. The story takes place simultaneously in the near future and the biblical past to illustrate the most prominent theme: that history repeats itself. This is done by juxtaposing the two time lines, the purpose o...
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Testament was an American ongoing comic book series written by Douglas Rushkoff with art and covers by Liam Sharp. It was published from February 2006 to March 2008 under DC Comics' Vertigo imprint.
There are several key themes to Testament. The story takes place simultaneously in the near future and the biblical past to illustrate the most prominent theme: that history repeats itself. This is done by juxtaposing the two time lines, the purpose of which seems to be to illustrate that religion is a continually evolving, living story that is being written by how we, and specifically the protagonists, live our daily lives. To date, other themes include increasing numbers of fascist governments, human rights, technology, and information economics in the form of a global currency, manna. A brief synopsis of the story to date is as follows. In the near future grad student Jake Stern and his conscientious objector friends fight against the new RFID-based universal draft by attempting to...
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