This is the cover of a 32-page Pope Benedict XVI manga comic book, which will be distributed in August during World Youth Day in Madrid. Jonathan Lin runs Manga Hero, which may well be the world's only publisher of Catholic manga comics. (CNS photo/court esy Manga Hero)
By Mark Pattison Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON (CNS) — Move over, Spider-Man. Here come some new comic-book heroes.
Among this new breed of heroes are Pope Benedict XVI, St. Paul and Old Testament figure Judith.
They are the stars of comic books done in a style older generations never saw in the comic-book rack at the neighborhood drugstore growing up. The genre is called manga, a Japanese genre of cartoons and comic books, and Jonathan Lin, who runs Manga Hero, may well be the world’s only publisher of Catholic manga comics.
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