Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Bible in Popular Culture
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Reading Mark Millar’s American Jesus comic series.
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Recently there have been a bunch of comics either engaging with religion or taking religious elements and reworking them into their stories. Here’s the list of what I’ve been reading recently. (There will be a follow-up post on Golem-related comics)
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I had some follow up comments and emails from the Jesus and Time-travel Stories post with some further suggestions, so I’ve listed those below. I’m also wondering if there might be some stories in comics like 2000AD that I might be missing too.
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Easter is the central point of the Christian calendar and religious and secular broadcasters often put on Jesus films at this time. Most commonly these include Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ, the 1977 TV mini-series Jesus of Nazareth with Robert Powell starring as Jesus, or one of the many versions of the musical…
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I’m currently thinking about Batman in dialogue with Christian theology, but over the weekend I had the opportunity to read the 2015 re-rebooted Omega Men series from DC featuring the then White Lantern, Kyle Rayner. I’m most familiar with the Omega Men connected to the Silver Age Green Lantern, Hal Jordan, in the 1980s but…
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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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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.