Jezebel appears in the Hebrew Bible four times. First, she marries King Ahab and has him make Israel worship Baal. After the prophet Elijah slays the priests of Baal, she drives him from the kingdom. She enables Ahab's seizure of a vineyard by having its owner executed. Finally, now Ahab's widow, she defies the divinely declared new king of Israel and dies in accordance with prophecy. Her marriage and death bookend the virtually all-male story of the fall of the house of Ahab, encompassing the prophets Elijah and Elisha and near-continual warfare among Israel and adjacent kingdoms. Brubaker adds nothing and deletes nothing in his comics version of the biblical account. He doesn't directly comment, and third-person narrative remarks are short and neutral. Rather, he lets the ironies of his title; his stripped-down, black-and-white cartooning, in which, for instance, from the waist down, standing figures resemble inverted letter u's; and the present-day streetwise hipster dialogue, rife with obscenities and put-downs, inject humor into the proceedings and disquiet into readers. Is this blasphemy or timely revitalization?