Marvel Comics
Pagan god (and Disney star) Loki wrapped up in trademark battles
By Heather Greene — June 25, 2021
(RNS) — 'I'm not wearing a licensed costume. It's my FACE,' tweeted one person who received 'copyright strikes' on an online marketplace for resembling Disney's superhero.
Marvel’s Loki wins heathens’ hearts even while losing the Norse immortal’s complexity
By Heather Greene — June 21, 2021
(RNS) — To modern heathens, Marvel’s characters are not simply 'all-powerful superheroes,' but thriving gods.
‘WandaVision’ echoes myths of Isis, Orpheus and Kisa Gotami to explain how grief and love persevere
By Michael Nichols — May 27, 2021
(The Conversation) — 'WandaVision' reimagines stories from Egyptian and Greek mythology, as well as Buddhist tradition.
Marvel’s Muslim superhero, Kamala Khan, inspires big hopes
By Saffiya Hosein — December 1, 2020
(The Conversation) — Kamala may be the most intriguing American Muslim superhero, with an ability to destabilize stereotypes while reinforcing ideas about American exceptionalism.
Chadwick Boseman’s faithful purpose showed from ‘Black Panther’ to his dignified death
By Tyler Burns — August 31, 2020
(RNS) — In a country built on casually snatching our lives away prematurely, he lived to show Black children that they can be poetry, not just prey or property.
Dear Mormons, just get over yourselves with this “Deadpool” protest
By Jana Riess — December 13, 2018
The Mormon protest of the art for "Once Upon a Deadpool" is self-absorbed and silly, revealing a persecution complex that just won't go away.
Flawed people, great power clashed in worlds of Stan Lee’s creations
By Zaki Hasan — November 16, 2018
(RNS) — His characters demonstrate how heroism comes not from superpowers but from the willingness to use what we have to do what we can, however we can.
Stan Lee, Jewish literary hero
By Jeffrey Salkin — November 13, 2018
Secret identities? What was up with that, anyway?
Marvel Comics’ less than marvelous Muslim mix-up
By Kimberly Winston — April 12, 2017
(RNS) New comic book was supposed to revive X-Men series. Instead, it stirred up religious controversy.
COMMENTARY: Muslim superhero Kamala Khan is no match for real-life Islamophobia
By Faiza Patel — November 22, 2013
NEW YORK (RNS) Kamala Khan may make a few people think that Muslims can be heroes as well as villains, but vanquishing anti-Muslim prejudice will take a more sustained and energetic effort by Khan’s human counterparts.
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