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Book Of Mormon Comic Book?

I found this at: Newsrama and thought I would post it here for your review - what do you think? Personally, I hope it is done with dignity so that people do not make it out to be fantasy.

Book Comic Mormon Book

I tried to read the article, but the link didn't work.

It is very difficult to treat the Book of Mormon well in comic book or cartoon format. The Book of Mormon is so deep and complex that even a Book of Mormon Stories book for children is (IMO) almost useless, and possibly detrimental. We have the Living Scriptures animated Book of Mormon stories. Our children know the basics of a lot of stories, but certainly can't get any sort of spiritual growth by watching them.

Book Of Mormon Comic Book? Studies Doctrine Mormon

Rather thn click the link, try copy and paste, this might work for you:
https://newsarama.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=13379

Below is a piece from the post:

ALLRED'S PASSION: MIKE ALLRED ON THE GOLDEN PLATES

Mormon & Sonby Chris Arrant

Well, maybe that's over-stepping, but not by much. The next project on the horizon for cartoonist Mike Allred is The Golden Plates: The Shape of All Things. It is an adaptation of The Book of Mormon, and is scheduled to come out in October from his own AAA Pop Comics. Before any misconceptions are formulated about the material, it's probably best to have the creator himself explain why he's working on such an epic project.

"I've contemplated it off and on since my career took off," Allred explained. "In fact, I drew one of the Three Nephites [from the Book of Mormon] in Madman Adventures #3 back in 1994. Those in the know got a kick out of it, even though I've since felt it probably wasn't an appropriate thing to have done.