Over at Comic Bastards, Dustin Cabeal sat down with the writer of Holy F*ck Nick Marino about his and artist Daniel Arruda Massa’s “sacrilegious satire sprinkled with action and adventure.” As the Marino explains:
From my perspective, this is really Sister Maria’s story. She’s the one who finds Jesus. She’s the one who brings him to Satan. She’s the one who’s actively going after the mythological gods and trying to stop their oppressive agenda.
However, if that’s too heady for you… LOOK!!!!! Jesus and Satan with big guns! Zeus and Isis with nuclear missiles! Nudity and profanity!!!
Over at Sequart, Ian Dawe threads an intriguing connection between Alan Moore and Dave Gibbon’s milestone Superman story “For the Man Who Has Everything” and Nikos Kazantzakis’s The Last Temptation of Christ. Though Superman is frequently posited as a Christ figure, Dawe raises a number of thoughtful points on “Christian overtones” that likely hadn’t previously been applied to this work by the Watchmen team. Read more here.
This week Canadian literary critic, historian, and comics scholar Jeet Heer weighed in on Twitter with his thoughts on the latest Captain America blockbuster. Of particular concern to Jeet was the Gnostic manner in which the shifting status quo of knowledge as a sacred (or at the very least, exceedingly important) value is treated, thus altering the entire narrative function of the ever-nefarious Hydra. You can read the full Twitter essay and my thoughts in response collected here on Storify.
The man behind The Fisher King, behind Brazil, behind Time Bandits, Terry Gilliam, was making the interview rounds in September to promote his new film Zero Theorum starring Christoph Waltz. In speaking with CinemaBLEND, the Twelve Monkeys director expressed his concerns about superheroes replacing religion:
I mean the Church is a dying thing. But comics and Marvel are everything now, aren’t they? Don’t they have all the answers to our lives? Aren’ they the figures that we want to copy and be like and aspire to? Don’t they relieve us when we’re in trouble?
Last year, Al Jazeera noted the surprising rise of comic book culture in Bangladesh, citing the precipitous rise of both retailersconventions. (Note, in particular, the varied views reflected in the user comments following the article.) Read more here.
@ the intersection of religion and comics: Graphic Religion
Over at Comic Bastards, Dustin Cabeal sat down with the writer of Holy F*ck Nick Marino about his and artist Daniel Arruda Massa’s “sacrilegious satire sprinkled with action and adventure.” As the Marino explains:
The man behind The Fisher King, behind Brazil, behind Time Bandits, Terry Gilliam, was making the interview rounds in September to promote his new film Zero Theorum starring Christoph Waltz. In speaking with CinemaBLEND, the Twelve Monkeys director expressed his concerns about superheroes replacing religion:
Last year, Al Jazeera noted the surprising rise of comic book culture in Bangladesh, citing the precipitous rise of both retailers conventions. (Note, in particular, the varied views reflected in the user comments following the article.)