Billy Tuccis A Child Is Born #1

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  Comic Book Bin - Andy Frisk

  Dec 22, 2011

  Billy Tucci has a lot to thank God for this Christmas as his wife beat breast cancer this year. This is no laughing matter, as cancer is no laughing matter. His wifes recovery is a wonderful thing. It is a wonderful thing when anyone beats cancer, especially since so many do not. Yes, Billy has plenty to be grateful for, and part of his way of displaying this gratitude is to finally finish and publish a Christmas Nativity story that he has reported and speculatively been working on off and on again for a decade. It is an amazingly, nay rapturously, beautiful book. The artwork in A Child Is Born is nothing short of some of the absolute best sequential art ever, and the most beautiful sequential art rendition of the Christmas Nativity story ever printed. Unfortunately, the story pacing, and chosen images, again although incredibly beautiful, are not really inspiring in any intellectual or literary way. A Child Is Born is simply a straightforward word for word reimagining of the Nativity Read Full Review