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Voyage Comic Books Tell Powerful Stories in New Ways, by Jerry Salyer – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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Image by Grok (AI) of a book cover for a Catholic comic book by "Voyage Comics" including a joyful nun titled "Little Missionary"

By Jerry Salyer, Catholic World Report, April 12, 2026

Catholic convert Jerry Salyer is a philosophy instructor and freelance writer.

It is clear that the Voyage Comics team is on to something, what might be thought of as the insight of Carlo Acutis.

Back in the late 80s and into the 90s, even as an unphilosophical teenager and avid consumer of comic books, I was well aware of flaws in the fantasy worlds of Marvel and DC.

I can, for instance, recall seeing through the thinly veiled propaganda of an “X-Men” graphic novel entitled God’s Country, the villain of which was a small-minded religious bigot who refused to tolerate super-powered mutants. One storyline of The Legion of Super-Heroes depicted a xenophobic dictator taking over the Earth, resulting in a terrible regime whereby hapless space aliens were persecuted. …

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