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Religious Revivals and the Great Awakening of Religion & Comics
[Part Two of “What Makes a Scholar’s Pull-List?”] Panel from _Manifest Destiny_ by Chris Dingess with art by Matthew Roberts American historians sometimes call the waves of religious fervor in the 18th...
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Comics Alternative Podcast Features Roundtable Discussion on Religion and Comics
On Monday, the Comics Alternative podcast hosted a “special roundtable” discussion featuring S&S’s own A. David Lewis, Elizabeth Coody, and Jeff Brackett on the subject of religion and comics....
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Who Gods the God/Men?, Part II (Or, Prepare Ye the Way of the Rao)
WARNING: This is a spoiler concerning JLA: Justice League of America #2, just out this past July from DC Comics. So, immediately on the heels of JLA: Justice League of America #1‘s last-page surprise...
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Jews and Comics: The Decade in Review
A little over 7 years ago, Aaron Passman wrote an excellent article for The Jewish Exponent, in which he discussed the growing interest in the topic of Jews and the comic book industry. At the time,...
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Sacred Texts: Lovecraft, Alan Moore, and Religion in PROVIDENCE
(Facts in the Case of Providence is a collaborative blog by Joe Linton, Alexx Kay, and Bobby Derie dedicated to annotating Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows’s Providence and Neonomicon from Avatar Press. In...
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The Martian Chronicles of Julian Darius, Part I
This past month, Sacred and Sequential had the opportunity to chat with Julian Darius, President & Founder of the Sequart Organization and creator of Martian Comics from his own Martian Lit...
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The Martian Chronicles of Julian Darius, Part II
Continuing our interview with Martian Comics creator and the Sequart Organization founder Julian Darius, we move from his depiction of the prophet Ezekiel to his treatment of Lazarus and of Jesus, “The...
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The Martian Chronicles of Julian Darius, Part III
In this third and final installment of our discussion with Martian Comics creator and Sequart Organization founder Julian Darius, we discuss characters’ vs. readers’ vs. believers’ perspectives on...
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Cloning Enchantment: Jesuses After Climate Change
[This article first appeared in the Journal of the Center for Mennonite Writing, vol 8, no. 3. It is reproduced here with permission.] Elizabeth Rae Coody (PhD) is a biblical scholar with a...
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Martin Lund Reconstructs Superman’s Judaism
This Fall, Palgrave Pivot is releasing Re-Constructing the Man of Steel: Superman 1938–1941, Jewish American History, and the Invention of the Jewish–Comics Connection by S&S’s own Martin Lund. The...
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Questioning Frank Miller and Superman’s “Jewish Essence”
I have been asked to comment on a short piece that was published yesterday on CBR.com, which I have to agree calls out for a response and fact-check. The piece announced that Frank Miller has said in...
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Jack T. Chick dies at 92
According to Chick Publications, their CEO and founder Jack T. Chick died peacefully in his sleep on Sunday night. He was 92. His death is mourned by some, and celebrated by others. Since the news...
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Ms. Marvel and the Good Business of Democracy
Marvel Comics’ Ms. Marvel #13 not only displays a determined, patriotic Muslim-American superheroine on its cover, but it also dedicates much of its page content to the titular hero pushing a “get out...
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Top 5 Religion & Comics Posts of 2016
A multitude of issues pertaining to religion and comics have filled the media and the Sacred and Sequential site in 2016: Islamophobia, superhero gods, idolatry and blasphemy, proselytizing,...
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Returning to the Religious Studies Project’s Comics Warning
A year or two ago, S&S Founding Members David McConeghy and A. David Lewis sat down to discuss the latter’s new book, American Comics, Literary Theory, and Religion: The Superhero Afterlife for The...
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The First Muslim Superhero
[With the apparent close of the IslamiCommentary site from the Duke University Islamic Studies Center (DISC), Sacred and Sequential is cataloging a number of their articles pertinent to comics and...
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A. David Lewis Discusses Islam, Comics, Syria, and Flintstones with Boston’s NPR
In just under a span of 10 minutes, S&S’s own A. David Lewis managed to address a span of issues with “Here & Now” co-host Robin Young on a recent WBUR broadcast. Touching on Ms. Marvel, the...
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The Complicated Theology of a Wonder Woman
Wonder Woman. Photo by ClaraDon/Flickr [The following piece was originally published for the Colorado Council of Churches website and it is reposted here with the author’s permission.] Even before the...
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Review – Arnaudo’s The Myth of the Superhero
Marco Arnaudo, The Myth of the Superhero, Trans. from Italian by Jamie Richards [Il fumetto supereroico: Mito, etica e strategie narrative, 2010], Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins U.P., 2013, 206p. [July7]...
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Sacred & Sequential Report from the San Diego Comic-Con, Part 1
Sacred & Sequential has its own special correspondent Samantha Langsdale reporting exclusively for us from the 2017 San Diego Comic-Con (SDCC) – known more formally as the International Comic-Con...
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