Violence! Intrigue! Polygamy! Mass circumcision! All this and more can be found in the latest VERTIGO instant classic by Eisner Award-winning cartoonist Kyle Baker. KING DAVID is a 160-page softcover (8 1/2 x 11 inches) written and illustrated by Baker, the comics genius behind YOU ARE HERE, WHY I HATE SATURN, The Cowboy Wally Show, and the Eisner Award-winning short story Letitia Lerner - Superman's Babysitter. The familiar tale of young David's rise to unprecedented power and popularity while under the paranoid scrutiny of King Saul gets the irreverent - yet biblically accurate - treatment that has made Kyle Baker's work acclaimed by both fans and critics alike. Witness the sweeping tale of David, the simple farmer's son who beats the stuffing out of wild animals who would thin his father's herds! Be awed as this upstart pipsqueak faces Goliath, the Gargantua of Gath, in a no-holds-barred fight to the death! Tremble before the might of King Saul and his all-consuming jealousy! When David survives Saul's seemingly endless attempts to have him assassinated, and Saul dies without leaving an heir, revel as the young hero ascends to the throne of Israel! Gasp at David's treacherous lust for the beautiful Bathsheba, a woman he shamelessly steals from one of his own soldiers! Will David rise to the challenges that face him who wears the crown? Or will absolute power corrupt him absolutely? Find out here, before you read it in the Good Book! Mature Readers.