Written by Matthew Salisbury and drawn by Sean Lam, this is the second volume Atiqtuq’s manga version of the life of St. Paul the Apostle. Paul is in full apostle mode at this point, making tents, preaching the word, and getting beaten up and jailed for it. He’s rescued by a young fellow named Timothy and his friend Phoebe, who eventually follow him to Jerusalem just in time to see him arrested and shipped off to Rome. Consequently, it would appear that the third volume will be the last.

I confess, I didn’t like this as well as either the first volume of Paul: Tarsus to Redemption or the first volume of Atiqtuq’s other manga, Judith. The authors are attempting to tell the entire story through pictures, with a bare minimum of dialog and virtually no exposition. There’s consequently very little sense of the passage of time, though considerable time passes, and some of the sequences made sense only because I’ve read the Acts of the Apostles. The sequence involving Simon Magus was particularly disjointed; I actually wondered whether there were pages missing.

Both of my sons liked it, though. Possibly I’m just not manga-savvy.