At Comic-Con, Faith-Based Entertainment Stays in the Shadows
The annual San Diego based “nerd convention” known as Comic-Con has quickly become the preeminent kingmaker in pop-culture, but not for Christian content.
What would Jesus do at Comic-Con?
Perhaps work the miracle of getting some attention from the comics crowd.
Faith-based entertainment, though it is increasingly a staple of mainstream movie and television studios, had only a small visible presence among the zombies, “Star Wars” Stormtroopers and, of course, superheroes whose annual Comic-Con International fan convention at the San Diego Convention Center ended on Sunday.
Religion was certainly not taboo at the convention. Thursday morning, the writer Mark Russell and the cartoonist Shannon Wheeler had great fun with a slide show that ran through the history of the Bible in 10 minutes or so.
Read the article “At Comic-Con, Faith-Based Entertainment Stays in the Shadows” on nytimes.com.