[Spoiler warning: Do not read until you have seen Avengers: Endgame.]
Following our previous posting, this art from Kristina Amuan was too good and too touching not to share.
We promise to return to sober, objective scholarship shortly, once we’ve wiped away all these tears.
It’s film, not comics. But given that it’s a rare Muslim character in that medium’s superhero genre based in comics, we’re opting to include this touching Twitter thread on the impact of one man’s sacrifice repercussing all across this blockbuster narrative; it’s a testimony to the principles behind Islam, Judaism, and many of the world’s great religions.
"..And whoever saves one, it is as if he had saved mankind entirely.."(Quran 5:32)
And without realizing the MCU manifested the most heroic act a Muslim could do, saving Tony Starks life that one day on May 2, 2008, Ho Yinsen indirectly ends up saving the whole universe in 2023. pic.twitter.com/ZSoyOjJvad— Maliha (@malihaness) May 8, 2019
Call for Papers:The new Claremont Press Religion and Comics series is pleased to welcome submissions for book proposals. This interreligious and ecumenical series is looking for volumes covering multiple topics related to the intersection of religion and comics, including, but
not limited to the following:
1-2 page book proposals should be sent to series editors Matthew Brake and A. David Lewis as the following e-mail address: popandtheology@gmail.com
Congratulations to Sacred and Sequential on being named a Runner Up in the Popular Culture Association‘s “Best Electronic Research Site” Award for 2019!
At the PCA Annual Awards held in Washington, DC on Friday, April 19, 2019, the site was recognized alongside Bloomsbury Popular Music, the Bj Bud Memorial Archives, and category winner Re: Collection. Founding member A. David Lewis was present to accept the recognition along with the Douglas A. Noverr Grant for Collection Enhancement. (The funding will be used to establish a Graphic Medicine collection at Lewis’s institution MCPHS University.)
Congratulations to our own @religioncomics for being recognized as a Runner Up in the “Best Electronic Research Site” Award at #pcaaca19 #pcaaca2019
(I’m only named because I submitted it. It’s quite a group effort!) pic.twitter.com/9pCCS87M9n
— A. David Lewis 🍉 (@adlewis) April 18, 2019
Credit goes to all our contributors and supporters. Let’s keep up the work!
