Son of Samson, Volume 2: The Daughter of Dagon

Son of Samson #2

by Gary Martin, Sergio Cariello (Illustrator)

After rescuing a young woman from thugs, Branan accompanies her and her servants back to their home. When Branan meets the woman?s mother he is startled to find that he is looking at none other than the infamous Delilah! When his next few days begin to resemble his father?s last days, Branan escapes captivity with the help of Delilah?s daughter.

Genres: Graphic Novels, Comics

160 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2007

About the author

Gary Martin's career as a freelance comic book artist spans over twenty years. He's worked for all the major companies, including Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, Image, and Disney, and on such titles as, Spider-man, X-men, Batman, Star Wars, and Mickey Mouse.

Gary is best known for his popular how-to books entitled, 'The Art of Comic Book Inking.' Recently, Gary wrote a comic book series called 'The Moth', which he co-created with artist Steve Rude.

Reviews

[Skjam! · Rating 4 out of 5]

An improved follow-up to the first volume, giving Branan a more talkative foil than his camel. In this volume, he meets Saphira, the daughter of Delilah (and apparently Dagon, which would make her semi-divine/demonic.) She's a spoilt girl whose hasn't quite twigged that her wealthy mother's treachery causes harm to actual people.

Amusingly, about halfway through the book she realizes that slavery is bad, and frees her slaves--without considering that she's in the middle of a journey and they aren't going to stick around once they've got their manumission papers.

But soon Delilah herself enters the picture; and though he's not as easily swayed as his father, Delilah is as cunning as ever.

Once again, the art lends appeal to the story, and one of the backup features is an alternate take on Samson's appearance...the Bible never actually says that he's a handsome hunk of muscle, after all.

[Jim · Rating 4 out of 5]

great book. what if samson had a son and he got involved w/delilah's daughter? the book is well illoed by the creator of the Moth and quite well written. one small thing that bothered me, after the story are excellent illustrated author notes , butthey treat the fictional characters as real. were i reading this w/little familiarity of the O.T. i'd believe they were real also.

[Peter Price · Rating 4 out of 5]

this is a awesome set of books

[Katy Lovejoy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Small print, hurts my eyes to read it, but it's not bad