Continuing in our coverage of works brought to our attention by readers, we received this recommendation from Brent Metzger:
[…] I (an adult man) requested Archangels comics for Christmas and received the 9 volume set. They’re interesting in that they depict in sequential art what Frank Peretti sought to depict with words alone in his groundbreaking This Present Darkness and Piercing the Darkness novels: that, as in Ephesians 6:12, there is a battle going on with spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
We cannot see with out earthly eyes the demons seeking to tempt and discourage us, nor the angels who at times protect us from those attacks, and from ourselves.
[…] They were seemingly geared toward a younger audience, but were the rare piece to combine superhero type action with faith, prayer and Christian principles.
We’d like to thank Brent and welcome people to check out his site, www.HolyAction.com.
His Wonder Woman stories from the 1940s demonstrate distinctively different values, including a commitment to nonviolence. After his death, later writers took the character apart, until by the early 1960s Wonder Woman had been demoted to Secretary of the Justice League and would stay behind while the male superheroes left on missions. Wonder Woman has had a few interesting rewrites since then, some more sophisticated than others, but I don’t think she’s ever been as revolutionary a character as she was in those early days.
A multitude of issues pertaining to religion and comics have filled the media and the Sacred and Sequential site in 2016: Islamophobia, superhero gods, idolatry and blasphemy, proselytizing, memorializing. Below are the five most-read articles from our pages; in toto, they all seem to orbit concerns of the medium’s essential alignment with either Christianity, Judaism, or the far, far more esoteric. Is there battle for the “soul” of comics amassing?
