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 WomenWriteAboutComics.com, S&S’s own Elizabeth Coody began breaking down the four trajectories by which comics and religion can tangle with each other. First up: (1) comics as religion and (2) comics in religion. 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.
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.
