WWJD: Forge an army!
The News & Observer in North Carolina has an article up on Christian comics, with one of the more interesting parts being the description of a comic called Covenant:
What if instead of dying on the cross Jesus had lived to sire an army of holy warriors bent on forging a new covenant? Preposterous, right? The random particles of this implausible premise collide in "Covenant," a Christian action comic book reminiscent of another popular fiction on Christ.
"Some people have compared our project to Dan Brown's 'The Da Vinci Code,'" said Bates, a comic-book insider who managed Bookery Fantasy in Fairborn, Ohio, for 18 years. "While both pose concepts that start with the life of Jesus and a possible lineage of Christ's descendants, the comparisons end there. Ours is more of an alternate history, sociopolitical, science-fiction action story with only a hint of the conspiracy so integral to 'Da Vinci Code.' But if the comparison makes our comic book more visible, more power to it."
posted by JK Parkin @ 8:36 AM
2 Comments:
Doesn't Jesus forming an army kind of negate most of his teachings? I can understand maybe his followers forming an army, but Jesus himself? Kinda strange.
In the book Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Jesus's Childhood Friend by Chris Moore, Jesus doesn't raise an army, but he does learn kung-fu.
Maybe deep down, all Christians have a desire to see Jesus lay the smackdown on someone ...
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