The Perennial Death of Supermen: Dying Gods Just Keep Popping Up!

Comics /

In honor of Superman’s 85th anniversary being celebrated today, and poignantly embedded in the Church’s calendar celebration of Christ’s resurrection, I present a humble meditation on a phenomenon in the world of Superman stories I noticed recently… Back in 1986, DC was preparing to restart it’s in-comic universe with the seminal Crisis on Infinite Earths, the […]

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Saving Victim: Peeta as a symbol for the Eucharist in The Hunger Games

Sci-Fi /

It is with a certain amount of enjoyment that I see The Hunger Games movies have somewhat reentered the pop culture conversation as they began trending on Netflix recently, especially as we enter Holy Week, and even more fitting as we come upon Holy Thursday. While certainly not the sensation they were when first released,

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Mount Carmel: The final mountain in the Finnian Series!

Fantasy /

The end of the “Sword of St. Michael” points to a location northwest of Jerusalem. It lands on another mountain surrounded by water. This time the mountain is one of the holiest of all Christendom: Mount Carmel. In Hebrew the mountain is called Har ha Karmel, which translates roughly to “God’s vineyard,” or simply “the garden.” It

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