The Illustrated Left Behind: A Graphic Novel of Earth's Last Days

by John Layman (adapter), Jerry B. Jenkins, Aaron Lopresti

After millions of people around the world vanish in one moment,in what many claim to be the Rapture, Rayford Steele begins a search for the truth amidst global chaos.

Genres: Graphic Novels

224 pages, Paperback

First published November 15, 2001

About the author

John Steele Layman is an American comic book writer and letterer. Layman is most known for writing Chew, published by Image Comics.

Reviews

[Brad Theado · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ive read the book series a couple of times but i saw this in a free book basket and took it. Glad it did, its a very good interpretation of the original.

[Heidi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great way to introduce people to read these if they are overwhelmed about reading a whole book and like visuals!

[Doug Sweet · Rating 2 out of 5]

I give this an OK (2 stars) simply because I appreciate any effort to push this genre (graphic novels) into a new theme like Christian fiction. Otherwise I would not have rated the work that high. I bought the book as a part of my research for my own book Christal Knight. I am working on a graphic project of my own. What I discovered between the cover was a heavily narrative driven story line that seemed virtually clipped from the youth directed novel of this series. The art was okay and even nice in some areas, but the amount of text was crazy. I showed this to my son (young teen at that time) and he confirmed that no kid wanted to pick up a graphic novel to "read a novel." He told me that he could enjoy the art since it was completely lost in the text. Note to parents...if you want your kids to read the left behind series, get the adult or young adult version of the novels. Note to me...don't repeat these same mistakes with my Graphic novel version of Christal Knight.

[Mom2triplets04 · Rating 4 out of 5]

There are 5 vols to this graphic novel. I read book 1 vol 1 which contains only 50 pages. It was a quick read. The images are great. The story is based on the novel. A movie is coming out in the fall with Nicolas Cage as main character.

[Meadow Frisbie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Just finished the first three books.
Pretty good, though they are a far throw from the originall novels.