Guest Post at Speculative Faith

My guest post is up at Speculative Faith.

In it I review Lee Weeks' "Angel Unaware" story arch from Daredevil: Dark Nights. Really it was a great story and it was a challenge for me to hold off on reviewing this until I was actually done with it:

Comic book stories are rarely faith-affirming. Christians are often portrayed as psychopaths, con men, or as wildly intolerant. For example, a group of Christian-like characters are portrayed as crazy fanatics jumping off a building so Superman will save them, in the recent story arc “Saved” from Adventures of Superman #19 and #20.

This is what makes Marvel’s “Angels Unaware” story arch from the anthology series Daredevil Dark Nights Issues 1-3 so stunning. It was a well-told, evocative comic book tale that powerfully portrayed/proclaimed the truth of the Gospel.

Read the whole thing.