Mashable is just one of many sites reporting Marvel Comics’ plans to have Thor, God of Thunder, be portrayed as a woman in coming months. While they rightly note both that this will leave the Thor and Avengers movies unaffected and that the male Thor is likely to eventually return, they do overlook not only Storm (of the X-Men) and Wonder Woman having wielded the uru hammer before but also the Earth X series where Thor was transferred into a female body so that he might further learn humility. Read here.
In November of 2013, S&S’s own Hussein Rashid wrote for CNN’s Belief Blog about the coming of a new Ms. Marvel: teenage, Muslim, and from Jersey. He predicted she’d have a “level of complexity [that] bodes well for the […] character.” Read here.
Comic Book Resources‘ Robot 6 is among several sites reporting that ISIS (working under the name of “The Islamic Caliphate”) has called for the death of comic book creator of The 99, Dr. Naïf Al-Mutawa. Read more here.
S&S’s own Beth Davies-Stofka examines the ultimate origin story, the Book of Genesis, in many of its comic book manifestations for Sacred Matters.Read here.
With the launch of G. Willow Wilson and Sana Amanat’s Ms. Marvel series featuring a teenage, American Muslim girl, S&S’s A. David Lewis discusses what’s at stake on ISLAMiCommentary. Read here.
@ the intersection of religion and comics: Graphic Religion
