The end will be graphic
Subtitle: apocalyptic in comic books and graphic novels
By: edited by Dan W. Clanton
Series: Bible in the modern world -- 43; Apocalypse and popular culture -- 5; Bible in the modern world -- 43.; Apocalypse and popular culture -- 5.
Publisher: Sheffield Phoenix Press; Sheffield Phoenix Press Ltd
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Sheffield
Language: eng
Number of pages: 114
ISBN-13: 9781907534492
Subjects: Apocalypse in literature; Eschatology in literature; Bible stories; Comic books, strips; Christianity; Popular culture
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Dan W. Clanton, Jr.; title: Part I. Independent and/or creator-owned comic books and graphic novels; title: 1. A network of lines that intersect : apocalyptic imagery and comic form in Kevin Huzenga's 'Jeepers Jacobs' / Aaron Kashtan; title: 2. Graphic apocalypse and the wizard of grotesque : Basil Wolverton, the worldwide Church of God and prophecy / Emily Laycock; title: 3. The world of the end as we know it : Alan Moore's deconstruction and reconstruction of apocalyptic concepts in Promethea / Diana Green; title: 4. (Ir)reverence after rapture : mocking and maintaining Christian doctrine in Battle Pope, Chronicles of Wormwood and Therefore, Repent! / A. David Lewis; title: Part II. Mainstream comic books and graphic novels; title: 5. Apocalypse then and now : Kingdom Come and the tradition of imagining armageddon / Terry Ray Clark; title: 6. Of beasts and men : the Book of Revelation and the apocalyptic superhero / Gregory Stevenson; title: 7. 'Now the whole world stands on the brink' : apocalypse and eschatological hope in contemporary superhero comics / Greg Garrett.