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.
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.
She’s feisty, she’s formidable, she’s Muslim, and she’s not Ms. Marvel. Meet Qahera, the creation of art student Deena Mohamed, ready to take out the “misogynistic trash.” Read here.
Mashable is just one of many sites reporting Marvel Comics’ plans to have Thor, God of Thunder, be portrayed as a woman in coming months. While they rightly note both that this will leave the Thor and Avengers movies unaffected and that the male Thor is likely to eventually return, they do overlook not only Storm (of the X-Men) and Wonder Woman having wielded the uru hammer before but also the Earth X series where Thor was transferred into a female body so that he might further learn humility. Read here.
