[The following piece was originally published for the Colorado Council of Churches website and it is reposted here with the author’s permission.] Even before the new movie broke box office records and charmed the world this summer, Wonder Woman was an icon for feminism. She has a set of values in the film that closely … Continue reading The Complicated Theology of a Wonder Woman
[The following post was written by Ron Edwards for his site Comics Madness and is republished here with permission. The entirety of the reader Comments that followed his writing are also included as of 9/16/2016; they have not been edited for content, and they reflect solely the views of their writers.] Happy birthday to me! I … Continue reading Four-Color Christ Jesus
[This article first appeared in the Catholic University of America’s “Archivist’s Nook” by William J. Shepherd. It is reproduced here with permission.] Readers of The Archivist’s Nook blog well know the popularity of the Catholic comic book, the Treasure Chest of Fun and Fact, published for most of its history, 1946-1972, by George Pflaum of Dayton, … Continue reading Easter Treasure – The Catholic “Treasure Chest of Fun and Fact”
[This article first appeared in the Journal of the Center for Mennonite Writing, vol 8, no. 3. It is reproduced here with permission.] When I found one comic with a Jesus that scientists had cloned from relics, I chuckled at its clever premise. When I found the third Jesus Clone comic, I realized that something … Continue reading Cloning Enchantment: Jesuses After Climate Change
(The following article by Mario Ribeiro first appeared at Sequart.org on 5/5/2016 as “They Were Lost in Space-Time and Then They Found God.” It is presented here with his permission.) Written by Steve Englehart and drawn by Al Milgrom, the Lost in Space-Time saga ran from West Coast Avengers #17 to 24. The real meat is between … Continue reading “This is the Avengers, not the God Squad!” (Sequart.org)
