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Dunc: I mean, seriously, I'

2007-03-26T22:41:27.704+02:00
Dunc: I mean, seriously, I've been racking my brains here and I can't come up with a single society in the whole of history (that I know of) that's definitely nastier than ancient Sparta. Ummm...WWII Germany? The ancient Israelites? Aztec sacrifices? The Vikings? (yeah, tell me that carving a blood-eagle ISN'T nasty?, NTM pillaging & rapine) Theodosius' Rome?

Jim - Hey, you're talkin' to a

2007-03-25T01:06:30.264+01:00
Jim - Hey, you're talkin' to an old Marvel man here. I used to dig Dr. Strange - Marvel did a few things w/a lotta occultic characters. Ghost Rider, Mephistopheles, Pandemonium, Chthon (no relation to our favorite R'lyeh inhabitant). Hercules, Thor, the list it do go on. & Superman rose from the dead. How parallel is that?

There has been a recent influx

2007-03-24T22:02:13.033+01:00
There has been a recent influx in the last decade or so, of religious icons & themes in comic books. An angel (Zauriel) was brought into the JLA - in American Dreams, Superman wrestled w/an archangel. Swamp Thing incorporates a great deal of religious imagery & concepts. There was a graphic novel that retrofitted Revelation to the JLA. Gaiman mixes in Miltonian themes w/pantheism & gnosticism. Hellblazer, Carey's Lucifer series. Note that most of these are DC/Vertigo. Ennis' 'the Preacher' series. There's always been a mix 'n match in comics, even in Marvel. Thanos became 'gawd' in the Infinity Gauntlet (though that was more along the lines of quantum fuzziness). There's even a page at adherents.com that discusses the various denominations of superheroes (there's a few atheists there - Wolverine among them). http://www.adherents.com/lit/comics/comic_book_religion.html John: Too many Americans have comic-book ways of understanding reality That's putting it mildly.