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Testament (comics)

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Testament

Cover to Testament #1.

Publisher	Vertigo Comics
Schedule	Monthly
Format	ongoing
Publication dates	December 2005 – present)

Creative team
Writer(s)	Douglas Rushkoff
Artist(s)	Liam Sharp, Peter Gross
Colorist(s)	Jamie Grant, James Devlin
Creator(s)	Douglas Rushkoff & Liam Sharp

Testament is an American comic book written by Douglas Rushkoff with art and cover by Liam Sharp, first published in December 2005. It tells two stories, drawing comparison between a near future in which grad student Jake Stern and his conscientious objector friends fight a new RFID-based universal draft by attempting to access the collective unconscious through an experimental shared experience sensory deprivation tank and a Biblical narrative based on Torah, various Jewish and Christian apocrypha and elements of other world mythologies.

1 Overview
2 Story arcs
3 Characters
4 Plot summaries
5 Collected editions
6 See also
7 References
8 External links

Overview

Story arcs

Abraham of Ur: Issues #1-5
West of Eden: Issues #6-7
Down to Egypt: Issues #8-10
Shit Happens: The Book of Job: Issue #11
Trip Reset: The Rape of Dinah: Issue #12
Babel: Issues #13-16

Characters

There are two stories being told, one in the biblical historical past, the other in the near future. Biblical characters:

Abraham, patriarch of the Israelite religion
Isaac, Abraham's son, whom he is called on to sacrifice
Sarah, Abraham's wife
Moloch, Phoenician god of the sacrifice of young children, here a deity representing the malevolent aspects of the Abrahamic God
Astarte, Semitic goddess of fertility, sexuality, and war
Melchizedek Biblical character who appeared to Abraham, here a deity representing the merciful Abrahamic God

Near future characters:

Jake Stern, graduate student caught in the middle of the conflict over a near future National RFID Trace system
Alan Stern, Jake's father, a researcher at Brookhaven National Laboratory (Center For Functional Nanomaterials)
Amos, leader of Jake's rebel friends at the Temple
Greco, who makes propaganda for the Temple
Dinah, Jake's underage friend who makes potions for the Temple
other unnamed Temple resident who acts as doorman and wears a "Juan Kerr" shirt
Miriam, Jake's ex-girlfriend and fellow grad student, dedicated to changing the system using above the board methods
Alan's colleague Dr. Green, who helped develop the RFID system, originally intended to trace soldiers in the field

Plot summaries

Collected editions

#	Title	ISBN	Release date	Collected material
1	Testament: Akedah	ISBN 1-4012-10632	July 26, 2006	Testament #1–5.
2	Testament: West of Eden	ISBN 1-4012-12018	January 17, 2007	Testament #6-10
3	Testament: Babel	ISBN 1-4012-12018	November 7, 2007	Testament #11-16