In their ongoing analysis of comic book writer Mark Millar’s body of superhero works, Sequart recently featured a piece written by Colin Smith on Millar’s Christian undertones for the Swamp Thing series, as compared to his collaborator Grant Morrison’s more universalist streak. Read here.
Over on Storify, S&S’s own A. David Lewis has curated an online Twitter discussion between himself, S. Brent Plate, and S&S’s Asher J. Klassen, Elizabeth Coody, and Jeffrey Bracket on the materiality of comics in terms of modern religion. Read here.
Even before The Walking Dead, even before Marvel Zombies, the unliving but shambling have been popular fodder for comic books. Now, though, io9 considers a much earlier, Medieval origin to zombie comics. Read here.
Both USA Today and The Huffington Post are reporting on the latest comic book series from writer Joshua Hale Fialkov. The Devilers, his new title from Dynamite Entertainment, features and interreligious team of experts in thwarting Satan’s forces…which happen to be pouring out of the sub-basement of the Vatican.
Fialkov is also the writer behind another new series this month, The Life After, from Oni Press — what USA Today calls “a coming-of-age journey through the purgatory of suicides and other after-death planes of existence.”
The Devilers and The Life After join Fialkov’s growing biblography alongside his DC Comics hit I, Vampire which also touches upon the supernatural and spiritual. With each of these titles, Fialkov is, intentionally or otherwise, expanding vistas of religion-tinged narratives across the mainstream comics marketplace.
In November of 2013, Deseret News spoke with ComicBookReligion.com‘s Preston Hunter and S&S’s own A. David Lewis about the role of religion in comics, from Ms. Marvel to Kingstone Comics. Read here.
