Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Religion and Media
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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…
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The trade paperback, Superman: Redemption, brings together three different Superman stories with religious contexts: Redemption: Action Comics #848 “If you believe, a man can fly” & Action Comics #849 “In good faith”. Angel: Superman #659. The Beast from Krypton: Superman #666. The stories are interesting because the writers use an existing ‘non-religious’ narrative world or character – Superman…
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Today we look at The Tithe, a criminal investigation comic that is framed within the pluralistic religious context of the contemporary USA. As such, religion is present throughout the stories as part of the settings the characters inhabit, but the focus of the story is on the interaction of the characters within that context.
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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.