This comic presents the idea that the Book of Matthew is a subversive text because it includes the genealogies of different women who may or may not have been sex workers. It includes all of the necessary footnotes, citations, and discussion to follow his train of thought. In these footnotes, the author describes himself as a religious guy and lays down his positions on faith. What he actually believes is even more subversive than the premise of this book, and I can appreciate it even as a very non-religious guy.

It reminded me of King Jesus by Robert Graves. One of the plot points in that book is that the marriage between the elderly Joseph and the young Mary was to protect her honor after some sexual impropriety (consensual or not).

Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus was a perfect antidote to the polemics of CS Lewis that made me stop reading the Space Trilogy. I read this stuff for both pleasure and research purposes. The two books of the Space Trilogy were a frustrating blind alley for me. But Brown's comic has re-oriented me in a fruitful direction.