<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" > <channel> <title> Comments on: Comics Are My Religion: A New Religion? </title> <atom:link href="https://comicattack.net/camr-new-religion/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /> <link>https://comicattack.net/camr-new-religion/</link> <description></description> <lastBuildDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 14:27:37 +0000</lastBuildDate> <sy:updatePeriod> hourly </sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency> 1 </sy:updateFrequency> <generator>https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3</generator> <item> <title> By: Jeff Jackson </title> <link>https://comicattack.net/camr-new-religion/#comment-13823</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff Jackson]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 14:27:37 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://comicattack.net/?p=32499#comment-13823</guid> <description><![CDATA[Very good observation. I've never noticed that distinction, but then again I don't read much DC.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Very good observation. I’ve never noticed that distinction, but then again I don’t read much DC.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title> By: Chance Saver </title> <link>https://comicattack.net/camr-new-religion/#comment-13822</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chance Saver]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 01:29:26 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://comicattack.net/?p=32499#comment-13822</guid> <description><![CDATA[Yes, even in Marvel, characters do come back. But NOT from the dead. That's one of the differences between Marvel and DC. In Marvel, if a character is "killed" off, if some writer wants to bring the character back they have to find a way, by hook or by crook, to make it that the character was never dead to begin with. In DC, you can be dead and just come back. I mean DEAD dead. I mean in the ways that people think of someone being dead....THAT dead. Ooooooohhh so dead. Green Arrow? Dead. Green Lantern? Dead. But they're still around, right? And don't get me started on what they did with Superman a while back. (And I haven't followed DC in a while. I bet there are TONS more examples.) In DC, there IS no final threshold....you NEVER leave the game.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yes, even in Marvel, characters do come back. But NOT from the dead. That’s one of the differences between Marvel and DC.</p> <p>In Marvel, if a character is “killed” off, if some writer wants to bring the character back they have to find a way, by hook or by crook, to make it that the character was never dead to begin with.</p> <p>In DC, you can be dead and just come back. I mean DEAD dead. I mean in the ways that people think of someone being dead….THAT dead. Ooooooohhh so dead. Green Arrow? Dead. Green Lantern? Dead. But they’re still around, right? And don’t get me started on what they did with Superman a while back. (And I haven’t followed DC in a while. I bet there are TONS more examples.) In DC, there IS no final threshold….you NEVER leave the game.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title> By: Jeff Jackson </title> <link>https://comicattack.net/camr-new-religion/#comment-13821</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff Jackson]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 01:30:24 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://comicattack.net/?p=32499#comment-13821</guid> <description><![CDATA[By 'systematic,' I mean an orderly account of faith and theology. In Christianity, systematic theology is the entire developed structure of Scripture, doctrine, and philosophy. No one has yet done this with comics, although your summaries are a stab in the right direction. Although I don't think Marvel = Dead is Dead, but "Dead is Dead...until it's alive again." :-)]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>By ‘systematic,’ I mean an orderly account of faith and theology. In Christianity, systematic theology is the entire developed structure of Scripture, doctrine, and philosophy. No one has yet done this with comics, although your summaries are a stab in the right direction.</p> <p>Although I don’t think Marvel = Dead is Dead, but “Dead is Dead…until it’s alive again.” 🙂</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title> By: Chance Saver </title> <link>https://comicattack.net/camr-new-religion/#comment-13820</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chance Saver]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 20:04:47 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://comicattack.net/?p=32499#comment-13820</guid> <description><![CDATA[Well, to me, it's ALL mythology. But that's a discussion for another time. As for the rest, I'm not quite clear what you mean by "systematic". My only guess is you mean how one structure was built using the guide of the structure before it, and so forth. (If I'm a little off base, please feel free to smack me down). But as for the theology of comics, I think I can some up Marvel and DC (which, let's be honest, are the only companies with the amount and variety of material to come close to forming their own "theology" to begin with). Marvel: Dead is dead. DC: It's ALL true. Seeya.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, to me, it’s ALL mythology. But that’s a discussion for another time.</p> <p>As for the rest, I’m not quite clear what you mean by “systematic”. My only guess is you mean how one structure was built using the guide of the structure before it, and so forth. (If I’m a little off base, please feel free to smack me down).</p> <p>But as for the theology of comics, I think I can some up Marvel and DC (which, let’s be honest, are the only companies with the amount and variety of material to come close to forming their own “theology” to begin with).</p> <p>Marvel: Dead is dead.</p> <p>DC: It’s ALL true.</p> <p>Seeya.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title> By: Jeff Jackson </title> <link>https://comicattack.net/camr-new-religion/#comment-13819</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff Jackson]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 16:52:03 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://comicattack.net/?p=32499#comment-13819</guid> <description><![CDATA[Yes, I see your point about #3, but while there are varying theologies that stem from Christian theology, most of these are systematic. I have yet to see a systematic theology from comics. It's not that it can't be done, it just hasn't been done yet. I agree completely with you about the Joseph Campbell thing. But where does mythology stop and religion begin? Are the two interchangeable?]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yes, I see your point about #3, but while there are varying theologies that stem from Christian theology, most of these are systematic. I have yet to see a systematic theology from comics. It’s not that it can’t be done, it just hasn’t been done yet.</p> <p>I agree completely with you about the Joseph Campbell thing. But where does mythology stop and religion begin? Are the two interchangeable?</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title> By: Chance Saver </title> <link>https://comicattack.net/camr-new-religion/#comment-13818</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chance Saver]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 14:25:28 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://comicattack.net/?p=32499#comment-13818</guid> <description><![CDATA[You do realize what you said in point #3 is almost exactly what can be said about the Bible, right? Just replace "superheroes" with "gods" and "comics" with "the Bible". I don't think you give the thematic underpinnings of comics enough credit. How many times have comic afficionados debated about if this story or that story is "canon"? How many times have comic purists debated about how this character would NEVER do this thing or that thing? How many times has there been a discrepency (sp?) about how Spider-Man's webbing works or how much Superman can lift based on issues X,Y, or Z? The way comic book universes have been built, I think, is strikingly similar to how religions are created. Joseph Campbell said that America doesn't have its own mythology. I humbly disagree. Comic books (along with jazz, is a pure American invention) are building that mythology one issue at a time.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You do realize what you said in point #3 is almost exactly what can be said about the Bible, right? Just replace “superheroes” with “gods” and “comics” with “the Bible”.</p> <p>I don’t think you give the thematic underpinnings of comics enough credit. How many times have comic afficionados debated about if this story or that story is “canon”? How many times have comic purists debated about how this character would NEVER do this thing or that thing? How many times has there been a discrepency (sp?) about how Spider-Man’s webbing works or how much Superman can lift based on issues X,Y, or Z?</p> <p>The way comic book universes have been built, I think, is strikingly similar to how religions are created. Joseph Campbell said that America doesn’t have its own mythology. I humbly disagree. Comic books (along with jazz, is a pure American invention) are building that mythology one issue at a time.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title> By: Billy </title> <link>https://comicattack.net/camr-new-religion/#comment-13817</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Billy]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:50:49 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://comicattack.net/?p=32499#comment-13817</guid> <description><![CDATA[Great idea with the e-mail Jeff. Very good column as well. You are so right about the dark, old musty vs. the new bright, well kept. I've been to both. lol]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Great idea with the e-mail Jeff. Very good column as well. You are so right about the dark, old musty vs. the new bright, well kept. I’ve been to both. lol</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title> By: Princess Powerful </title> <link>https://comicattack.net/camr-new-religion/#comment-13816</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Princess Powerful]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 17:22:12 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://comicattack.net/?p=32499#comment-13816</guid> <description><![CDATA[It reminds me of Futurama where they misinterpret their artifacts. I hope we don't do the same with ours nor have it happen to us! Lol]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It reminds me of Futurama where they misinterpret their artifacts. I hope we don’t do the same with ours nor have it happen to us! Lol</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title> By: Craig </title> <link>https://comicattack.net/camr-new-religion/#comment-13815</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Craig]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 06:35:09 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://comicattack.net/?p=32499#comment-13815</guid> <description><![CDATA[After the bomb, when all of our history and culture become orally passed down, comic book stories certainly have a chance at knocking the old guard off their mantles. Most superheroes represent the Pantheon of Gods in some way, and some even directly reflect the Big Guns (Superman is compared to Jesus so often that it's become redundant). It's not too far fetched.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After the bomb, when all of our history and culture become orally passed down, comic book stories certainly have a chance at knocking the old guard off their mantles. Most superheroes represent the Pantheon of Gods in some way, and some even directly reflect the Big Guns (Superman is compared to Jesus so often that it’s become redundant). It’s not too far fetched.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title> By: Tweets that mention Comics Are My Religion: A New Religion? -- Topsy.com </title> <link>https://comicattack.net/camr-new-religion/#comment-13814</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Tweets that mention Comics Are My Religion: A New Religion? -- Topsy.com]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 21:00:15 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://comicattack.net/?p=32499#comment-13814</guid> <description><![CDATA[[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Comic Attack, Comic Attack. 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