Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Pop Culture
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In this instalment – DC/Vertigo’s Lucifer, which is located in a clear theological and supernatural framework, and which wrestles with free will, power, and predestination. And some thoughts on getting the casting right for transferring the comic to other media.
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The weeks leading up to Christmas Day a populated by Santa parades, madcap shopping, a rush to finish work, Christmas parties, Christmas songs and carols – religious and secular – and the odd nativity play or reenactment. All of these form what Jason Clark calls consumer liturgies that demand our attention while relegating religious and…
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Kingdom Come Publisher: DC Comics Writers: Mark Waid & Alex Ross Artist: Alex Ross Letterer: Todd Klein Kingdom Come pretty much has everything you could want in a comic: Interesting characters; familiar characters recast by circumstance; conflict; sacrifice; an apocalyptic edge; great art; redemption; and excellent storytelling. It’s one of my go-to comics for showing people…
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I picked up a few comics and graphic novels in the past couple of months that have various religious themes, characters and motifs, so I thought I might do a Top 10 list and subsequent postings for my favourite comics with religious and spiritual material. This is the list of comics that I tend to…
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One of the final writing projects of research leave is to put to bed a book chapter on angels and popular culture that I’ve been working on in fits and starts. I’ve tried a few ideas out as conference papers (Greenflame: All about angels this fortnight), as well as in the classroom and church contexts,…
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The final post on science fiction television influences from my childhood today, and I’ve left the biggest to last: Star Trek. And bonus section on comic book science fiction show crossovers.
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I remember watching both of these shows, though not with any real recollection. Certainly, Planet of the Apes was repeated at some point, and I can remember eating the orange-chocolate ice creams that came with the Planet of the Apes stickers (See Childhood Science Fiction: Ice Cream). Ark II was just some sort of filler in…
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When we moved to NZ we didn’t have a TV (apart from a rental during the Commonwealth Games when they were in Christchurch), so I’d often be around at my friends houses watching TV with them. These are three of the shows that I remember from that time, though I kept watching them when we…
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Two more shows today. One a classic and the other somewhat more obscure. Battlestar Galactica (1978-1981) There’s this thing called Star Wars, they said. We want one, they said. And not just a film, but a TV series. And so we got Battlestar Galactica from Glen A. Larson and ABC. It was everything kids who’d…
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The 1970s were a time when every cool science fiction show had an ice cream or ice block (lolly). There were stickers and games associated with them too. Here are a few I remember.