Holy Superheroes! Revised and Expanded Edition: Exploring the Sacred in Comics, Graphic Novels, and Film

Pulitzer-prize nominee and English professor Greg Garrett explores the deeper side of comic books--and the motion pictures they inspire--for the lessons they can teach us about faith, justice, and redemption.

Spider-Man. Batman. The X-Men. The Fantastic Four. Comic books and the characters they have spawned have become twenty-first-century mythology. Greg Garrett helps us see the profound depth that can be found in the glossy, fast-paced, and often violent world of comics, graphic novels, and the films they inspire. Holy Superheroes! provides extensive discussions of some of our most beloved comic heroes and concludes with an appendix of twenty-five comics and graphic novels for discussion of spirituality and comics.

Introduction: Comics and Religion -- Modern Heroes -- Look, Up in the Sky! -- With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility -- Truth, Justice, and the American Way -- The Problem of Evil -- Vigilante Justice -- The Beast -- The Apocalypse -- The Holocaust -- The End of Violence -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Essential Graphic Novels and Collections