Comic Book Character: A Catechism for Becoming Super

by David A. Zimmerman

We could be heroes . . . couldn't we?Every year billions of dollars are invested in a modern men and women, from earth or from beyond the earth, blessed with powers beyond those of ordinary mortals, charged with keeping the world on the right side of good and evil. We pour our money into such mythologies because they feed our great that the world can become a better place, and that we might have something to do with it.David A. Zimmerman grew up moving back and forth between the contemporary epic mythology of superheroes and a much older epic--the story of Christianity. In Comic Book A Catechism for Becoming Super he explores how comic books and Christianity make sense together, and what keeps them forever apart. With character studies from Superman and Batman to Spider-Man and the Avengers, Zimmerman shows how masks, villains, sidekicks and suffering manifest in the contemporary world, and how, by the grace of God, we each could be heroes.This ebook is a revised and expanded edition of the original.

144 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 1, 2012