"Saints should be super heroes"

The Guardian has a feature up on The Flying Friar, the new comic from Speakeasy by Rich Johnston and Thomas Nachlik:

I was pleased to hear that Joseph of Copertino has finally found his rightful place as a fully fledged comic book superhero. The patron saint of pilots and flight attendants is to be the subject of The Flying Friar, a lightly embellished graphic novel detailing his life and exploits. It's an obvious idea when you think about it: what Celebrity Big Brother does for people who used to be famous, so the comic book industry may do for the cults surrounding some of our more obscure spiritual idols. Writers with a handy copy of the Oxford Dictionary of Saints will find themselves positively spoilt for choice.