The bad news is that she keeps flying into buildings.

Big thumbs up. Very funny.

He a;ready got 2 up his bum

Fact: mohamed raped a 9 year old girl.

Uhhhh... was she your mom or something? how is that a retort to my comment?

Bud, take a moment to do a search on "Mohammed Aisha" and you'll have your answer. And the prior poster will have an apology from you.

I'm just sharing the truth about Islam for anyone who cares to read it. And mohamed did indeed rape Aisha when she was 9 years old. Now that's a leader we can all believe in!

Flying along in beautiful spacious skies when all the sudden....

BANG....stupid fruit colored planes....

POW.....where did that purple mountain come from?

CRASH...lucky I landed in some soft amber waves of grain.

I GOTTA stop flying with this stupid burqa on.

ROFL...

Nice.

(Its sad they're trying to morph a character just to be PC. When are they going to have a superhero who's Christian and views morality in a good light. I guess Constantine is as close as we get.)

1) If you read the article, they arent "morphing" anything. Carol Danvers - the Ms. Marvel in your picture - is now Captain Marvel. The new girl grew up as a fan of Carol Danvers and, when she discovered her powers, took the now-vacant name of Ms. Marvel.

2) See my other posts here about Nightcrawler. His strong Christian faith is a major component of his character. He's a good guy and even tries to get Wolverine interested.

Ah - I forgot about Nightcrawler. Nice one.

What I meant by morphing is this: (from the article)
"who will take on the currently unused Ms. Marvel persona" ie take her real-estate in our entertainment field
(Ms Marvel is airing next year according to the article.)

hmm...I suppose Captian Marvel will be a girl who can blow herself up multiple times without committing suicide?

Depends on which buildings.

Hopefully it's Marvel and DC headquarters for their extreme liberal slant in the past several decades.

Bud-Um-Tsk...though to be fair, collateral damage is a common place thing for Superhero Universes. Heck, I wouldn't be surprised if the economies of all them big cities there RUN on hiring thousands of workers to fix things after every major skirmish.

You are so right....Marvel even had a series dealing with this:

Damage Control

I know. Good Ol' Dwayne McDuffie was good...before he grew senile, possibly agnostic or atheist, and ruined Ben 10: Alien Force and Ben 10: Ultimate Alien.

LoL!

Ok....that's pretty funny. An upvote for you.

Religion was never an issue in most comic book superheroes. Can you tell me what religion Superman, Batman, Iron Man or the Hulk is? I don't know. So why now?

anything ending in 'man' is jewish.
;)

Clark Kent was raised a Protestant, but I think they worshiped a sun god on Krypton.

As I said, I do not remember any particular religious faith being mentioned - especially as a background for a character - in any comic books of the superhero type.

Captain America was raised Irish Catholic.

I keep saying it, but Nightcrawler's Catholic faith is a central part of his character.

I had to google to find out for sure, but he debuted in Giant-Size X-Men #1 in 1975.

He was killed in a major story-line a year or two ago and Wolverine had a really hard time with it. Nightcrawler's death is a big reason Wolverine has sworn off killing in the current comics.

Amazing X-Men #1 (new X-men title that just started) focuses on Nightcrawler being in Heaven but feeling that his work on Earth isn't done. The mini-series right now in that comic is called something like "The Quest for Nightcrawler" - which I assume means that somehow the current X-men are going to bring him back, which is good because he's a great character.

Oh, the "dead and in heaven" thing is pretty recent, but Nightcrawler's faith has been a major thing for his character since the beginning.

The X-men were pretty much created with what you could consider political ideas in mind. At the time they were a fairly obvious allusion to race and discrimination. Since their creation, they've stood for pretty much any group that is discriminated against.

Mister Terrific is an atheist - even though he knows Zauriel (an actual angel)... was always weird to me.

I'm pretty sure Bat Woman had a lucky mood ring.

Well...sorta kinda. You see, on Krypton, they worshiped their Red Sun called, 'Rao' in a cross between the way Pagans would and the more rational/scientific way Christians and Jews would if it were Jehova himself.

I thought the Kryptonians worship science. I read that in a superman graphic novel where him and his dad died and have to fight together to live again. Other than that I stopped giving Marvel Comics my money when they pitted Captain America against the "racist" Tea Party. Somehow a Muslim Ms. Marvel doesn't surprise me anymore. Bummer that she'll get stoned if she wears the traditional swimsuit like costume.

There's actually an online database showing the religious affiliation of various comic book characters. It's something that does actually come up in the comics from time to time.

http://comicbookreligion.com/

Your minutes of research and thought-out arguments have no place here!

Daredevil was raised Irish Catholic and that fact tends to come up a lot, especially when Frank Miller has the pen.

Duh. Superman is Christian. Batman is Jewish. Iron Man is Buddhist. And The Hulk is a Scientologist.

Actually, Batman comes from a presumably protestant and catholic household and is often portrayed as a lapsed Christian though sometimes he leans into agnosticism and atheism (despite ALL of the evidence of gods in his own Universe. Seriously! Wonder Woman, one of his CLOSEST FRIENDS AND ALLIES was LITERALLY MADE BY THE FRICKIN' GREEK GODS OUT OF CLAY ON THE ISLE OF THE AMAZONS! HOW CAN YOU POSSIBLY NOT BE RELIGIOUS IN A UNIVERSE LIKE THAT!? Eh. Maybe instead of being an atheist, he's more of a nay-theist).

What's the Hulk's thetan level?

IT'S OVER 9,000!

What?!! 9000?!!! There's no way that can be right!!!

Xenu hasn't got a prayer.

Because bringing up religion wouldn't sell as many comic books,.

Oh, also Kitty Pryde has mentioned her Jewish background several times recently that I can think of....There are a ton of responses on this story but I'm wondering who around here besides me actually reads these?

Kitty Pryde's Jewishness has been pretty integral for decades. (old time reader here)

I just meant that she has mentioned it a lot recently - most recently I can think of her response to Havoc saying he doesn't want to be called a "mutant" anymore because really we're all the same.

Her dissatisfaction with this was that it diminishes something special about a person. Just as she wouldn't want to be oppressed for being Jewish, and should be treated equally to anyone else, didn't mean that being Jewish wasn't a thing that made her who she was.

Her Jewish faith was different and special to her, but it didn't make her less equal.

Anyway, I appreciate someone else who actually likes and reads comics commenting on this story. I always feel like a giant nerd when they post on what the "librards" at Marvel are doing.

Oh, me, too! Gets tiring shoveling thru the "she's gonna blow sh*t up bwahaha!!" posts in the thread.

Yeah. I really hate when something happens that stands out and people who don't know anything about the comics act like "Oh wow, this is all just for politics! These are for kids!!" (the second part, most notably when it's an LGBT character).

There are kids comics, most titles are not for kids though. The kid version is usually the violence/adult-issues dumbed down versions (ie: Ultimate Spider-Man cartoon...which isnt actually bad)

I always think it's funny the people who love the movies based on these characters, but act as if the fact that they are drawings in the comics makes the source material somehow less adult.

Well, that's just an odd cultural shift, isn't it? Kids don't swap comics, they play video games with each other, not all of which are much less mature than the now-more mature comics. I remember when we walked home from dinner and passed a newsstand and I could usually wheedle 50 cents for a new comic--mostly chosen for the cool cover. (before I started seriously reading and went to shops as a teen) Now they're all well over 3-5 bucks.

Probably largely because people who grew up loving the characters grew up and wanted to keep loving them...so the characters started to grow (though mostly, not age) with them.

Oh yeah, since you have been a reader for a while, maybe you can help with this question someone asked me:

"Fred Bastiat:

Interesting, I just started reading some graphic novels and been looking for a female superhero, but something different...Watchmen like, with depth and characterization, and in graphic novel form. Recommend anything?"

I think they are looking more for a self-contained novel, like Watchmen that they mention. For strong female superheroes in that format I really don't have a good idea.

I was thinking maybe Joss Wedon's run in X-men in a hardcover collection, as he always writes strong female characters and this overall story features Kitty and Emma heavily.