Recently I was able to ask Marvel Comics veteran Jim Fern a range of questions about his comic book career as well as his deep Catholic Faith. Before getting into […]
The Internet has been buzzing about a recent interview with comedian Stephen Colbert and CNN’s Anderson Cooper. In it, Cooper asks Colbert, “You went on to say, ‘What punishments of
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I had the opportunity to interview award winning actor John Rhys-Davies (Gimli in The Lord of the Rings) about a recent audio drama he participated in called, The Trials of Saint
While the fight for truth and justice always has spiritual implications, many stories from the DC and Marvel universes do not depict specifically religious practices. We rarely know whether a
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In the 1990s, Marvel produced X-Men: The Animated Series and it was a ground-breaking series on a number of levels. For example, in season 3, episode 18, a Catholic mutant known
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Marvel’s Nightcrawler provides readers a character possessing an amazing ability to jump across the space-continuum. Born as Kurt Wagner, Nightcrawler is a mutant with an interesting lineage. His mother is
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To celebrate the upcoming production of Finnian and the Seven Mountains Issue #3, I will be giving away a “starter package,” featuring Issue #1, Issue #2 and The Last Monks of
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After receiving a great deal of feedback about which comic book idea to run with next, we have decided to begin preparations for Finnian and the Seven Mountains #3! The script
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“[Hobbits] love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt. They do not and did not understand or like machines more complicated
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The very act of naming is an important, identifying, and often transformative act in many biblical instances. Adam, the first man, was called to allot names to all of his
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