![]() ![]() Sharrett, who has written widely about both comic book literature and religion, traces the modern exploration of religion to the 1980s, “where various talented writers like Alan Moore, Frank Miller, Art Spiegelman and many others showed that you could make the medium respectable and take on these moral and political issues without denigrating them.” What’s different is the serious, usually non-judgmental examination of core Judeo-Christian themes in mature stories. Using comic books as a popular medium to pass on ethical, even religious, values is nothing new, said Christopher Sharrett, a professor of communication and film studies at Seton Hall University in South Orange, N.J. ![]() ![]() ![]() Until then, he does not exist.”) provides his nickname around the office - and the name of the series: “The Atheist.” Sharpe’s rigid devotion to rationalism (“If your God falls out of Heaven tomorrow I’ll walk up, shake his hand, tug his beard, ask him who shot JFK, and then I’ll know God. One of the more talked-about comic book debuts in recent years was the introduction last year of Antoine Sharpe, a government agent who rejects all things supernatural, by Desperado Publishing and Image Comics. For a character you can’t even see, God does seem to pop up all over the place in the comic book universe. Comic books from edgier alternative publishers and adult-oriented graphic novels have explored explicitly religious ideas for several decades, but what’s striking is how often such themes have been appearing lately in the most mainstream of publications. ![]()
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