Deathstroke #20 - "Monster"

[laughing_tree]

I’ve asked DC Comics to send a preview copy to Christianity Today. No word yet on if they’ve done so. But I’d really like comics to take more and greater chances and to expand our audience beyond the traditional market. There are *billions* of dollars– with a “B” –to be made in the evangelical market. It mystifies me as to why neither DC nor Marvel are in it.

I doubt any Christian bookstore would carry Deathstroke #20, mainly because it questions religion as much as embraces it. With traditional Christian bookstore chains, there’s a certain quantity of Kool Aid that must be consumed, which misses the mark of Christ’s message by about a mile.

Great art, great books and great music are typically banned from these chains which insist on a kind of inoffensive rounding off of reality and adherence to an evangelical message. In my experience, questioning my faith has only strengthened it.

-- Christopher J. Priest

Comments

[shadowpsykie]

he's using religion as a weapon here. he MIGHT be truthfully trying to change. But he's a weapons master and in order to CONVINCE her he is being serious, he has weaponized the bible... it's pretty brilliant. if we really do see slade, AND the others struggling with this idea of faith/forgiveness/Change etc, its gonna be interesting. Priest hasn't really let me down so as a Agnostic Catholic (it's complicated) I really want to see where this goes...

[thezmage]

I find that more people have a hard time dropping the "catholic" than any other religion I know of.

[miramira]

I dunno. I feel like this is a pretty easy argument to dismantle, whether you can cite a counter-verse or not: forgiveness needs to be freely given, and you don't get to demand anything else in exchange. If she decides she wants to try and redeem him anyway, that could definitely have interesting possibilities, and maybe it's clearer that's what's going on in the rest of the issue. But here he just comes across like every atheist chatroom warrior ever, and I don't see much reason for her not to remain skeptical.