Unknown Soldier Vol. 1: Haunted House

October 30, 2009

Recently, a colleague made a post on the Reporter blog about the number of pastors who are also comic book fans—and pointed out why that overlap might not be so strange after all.

Her post drew responses from pastors who said “Me, too!” Yet there were skeptical responses as well. One rather cynical person wondered if next we’d be searching for theological content on cereal boxes.

I don’t know from cereal boxes, but I do know from comic books. And while most superhero fare is saturated with a cheap justification for getting your way by brute force, there’s still plenty of comic book work—released monthly—that treads onto thornier moral territory.

Read the rest of this review at the United Methodist Reporter.