Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Comics
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One of the things the Internet has brought with it is the facility to deliver a seamless comic reading experience from purchase and subscription to titles and series through to reading them on a tablet like an iPad, Kindle Fire, or Surface. Services like the Amazon-owned Comixology and Kindle Unlimited, Marvel Unlimited, DC Universe online service,…
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While DC continues to deliver erratically in the live action superhero movie arena, their their DC animated universe films are another story. For every live action Wonder Woman or Aquaman you also get the decidedly average Batman v Superman or a Suicide Squad film only the fanboys and girls can love. But DC animation rarely…
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It’s been a while since the Top 10 religion and comics installments, and I’ve been meaning to post a number of other comics that didn’t make it into that list but are still worth mentioning in passing. No commentary on these apart from the official blurbs. As always, YMMV reading these.
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Midnight Nation Publisher: Top Cow (2000-2002)Creator: J. Michael Straczynski ln this final top 10 entry, we consider J. Michael Stracynski’s Midnight Nation, a road trip comic with supernatural and religious dimensions.
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Daredevil: Guardian Devil Publisher: Marvel Knights (1998-99)Creators: Kevin Smith; Joe Quesada; & Jimmy Palmiotti Today’s religion and comics posting looks briefly at the Marvel character of Daredevil in the Kevin Smith story Daredevil: Guardian Devil.
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The Magdalena Publisher: Top Cow Productions Creators: Joe Benitez, David Wohl and Malachy Coney. Warrior nuns. Not the first thing you think of when you think of comics. But they are a thing, and an explicit connection between religion and comics. The most well-known and developed are Warrior Nun Areala and The Magdalena, as well…
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Revelations Publisher: Dark Horse Comics Creators: Paul Jenkins and Humberto Ramos. I’m a fan of British TV detective dramas, with their flawed everyman and everywoman characters, the languid turn of pace, and a general world-weariness about the characters and their attire. The comic and graphic novel, Revelations, has that in spades – Charlie Northern, the…
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The Phantom Stranger has been a character in the DC universe since his creation in 1952 by John Broome and Carmine Infantino. He exists as one a of number of supernatural ‘heavy-hitters’ who exist alongside the regular superheroes, sometimes working with them, and sometimes just providing advice or observing.
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Today’s comic is Superman: Peace on Earth, a large format graphic novel that is the first in a tabloid-sized series of standalone stories by Paul Dini and Alex Ross created for the 60th anniversary of DC Comics.
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Recently my family gave me the 2018 DC Comics animated film, Batman Ninja. This takes the familiar Batman heroes and villains and transports them into an anime-style Japanese Batman story directed by Junpei Mizusaki. This is not the first time DC have done something like this with the Batman: Gotham Knight collection of short anime-style…