Next Testament Books in Order

Clive Barker’s Next Testament is a three‑volume graphic novel series that asks what might happen if an Old Testament god woke up in the modern world with no interest in forgiveness. Created with collaborators Mark Miller and Haemi Jang, it combines biblical spectacle with very contemporary anxieties about faith, power, and violence.

The story begins when Julian Demond, a wealthy industrialist who has walked away from his empire, goes on a personal pilgrimage into the desert. There he uncovers a radiant, many‑colored being who calls himself Wick and claims to be God. Julian, awestruck, brings Wick back to civilization, convinced that he is helping to usher in a new age.

What follows is less a revival than a rampage. Wick delights in demonstrations of absolute authority, rewarding adoration and annihilating anything he deems corrupt or boring. Cities burn, worshippers flock to him, and cameras broadcast his miracles and atrocities across the globe. Humanity’s systems—religious, political, and technological—prove brittle when faced with a deity who values spectacle over mercy.

Standing against this are Julian’s estranged son Tristan and Tristan’s fiancée Elspeth, who witness the first wave of devastation and resolve to stop it. Their journey takes them across a world in free fall, from plane crashes and cult gatherings to a final confrontation in a library that may hold the only knowledge capable of unseating a god.

Artistically, the series is bold and saturated, with Wick’s shifting form and the carnage he leaves behind rendered in vivid color. The tone is both grand and intimate: huge set‑pieces of destruction sit alongside quiet conversations about belief, responsibility, and the kind of world people actually want to live in.

This page presents the three Next Testament volumes in order and outlines the main beats of the story, helping readers follow the arc from Julian’s first encounter in the desert to the last, desperate attempt to write a different ending for creation.