The Armed Garden And Other Stories - Hardcover

David B. is clearly one of the best storytellers in the medium of comics.--Joe Sacco

David B. works a real kind of deeply human magic on the page.--Jason Lutes

Religious fundamentalism... has worn a thousand faces in a millennia--long carnevale procession of war and weirdness, and David B. paints portraits of three of its masks with bloody brilliance. Focusing on long--forgotten heresies and treating the most outlandishl egends about them as fact, B.'s high--contrast linework sets them all alight with their own incandescent madness.--Sean T. Collins

The stories are held together by the artist's sense of humor and tone, not to mention the striking, not-quite-black-and-white, two-toned art. ...[F]antastical events [are] juxtaposed with a to the point, almost ho-hum narration, suggesting the idea that these legends are common occurrences. If only that were so.--Adam W. Kepler

The Armed Garden and Other Stories is the witty, finely executed work of an artist uniquely capable of capturing both the fervid ecstasy of belief and the dull, heartsick ache left behind once it cools.--Glen Weldon