Never boring but always haunting, exciting, surprising or all three at once. The Goddamned is why we read comics: there are no limits as story and chances dance on a razor's edge. Read Full Review

In this light, The Goddamned is a New Testament take on an Old Testament tale, less focused on the storm clouds gathering overhead a wicked world deserving of wrath, and more so on subverting the text to elicit in the reader a deeper contemplation of the question as to who actually constitute the sheep and the goats in our own postdiluvian period. Read Full Review

If you're not already readingThe Goddamned, you probably should be. Sure, there may not be much of a story yet, but it definitely feels like it's building towards something. We're also starting to get some actual characterization, in addition to the visceral action from the first two issues. Plus, it's only three issues in, so it's a decent time to get onboard. Read Full Review

Without beating around the bush, The Goddamned probably isn't safe for younger readers (okay, it's really not), but it's a refreshingly brilliant comic that has absolutely no spandex in sight.There's a lot of detail within these pages, everything from the words a character uses, to their speech patterns to the art itself. We're still two issues away from the first trade paperback (which will be released in June), so it's still too early to tell if the series will be one that's highly recommended years down the road, but as it stands, I wouldn't be surprised if that's the case. Read Full Review

While I've been a fan of the Jason Aaron/R.M. Guera partnership since the first issue of Scalped, I wasn't expecting Guera to blow me away as much as he has with this new series. Guera's art has reached an entirely new level with The Goddamned. Read Full Review

My about-face on The Goddamned continues after this issue, thanks to a combined visual and narrative style that evokes its story better than the source material. Which is the fucking bible, by the way. Read Full Review

The Goddamned is a gorgeously illustrated and pleasantly foul book that wants you to realize the distinction between animals and humans really isn't all that great. That when push comes to shove, when all artifice is stripped away from our societal trappings, all we'll ever really look out for is number one. Aaron & Guera don't bother obscuring this truism, that when we survey an emerald-hued utopia from our ivory towers, we often daydream of jamming our blades deep into the throats of our enemy. The Goddamned takes care to remind us that our sense of entitlement will trump altruism on most days. Amidst the grit and grime, humanity does occasionally show its softer side, but you're going to have to work pretty hard to navigate the muck in order to find it. Read Full Review