http://www.western-star.com/hp/content/shared/news/stories/COVENANT_COMIC_0301_COX.html
This comic is aimed at christians so it could be too message-heavy for those of us who are nonbelievers, but it could be interesting. Will there be any parallel between Jesus-as-military-leader and Mohammad, I wonder?What if instead of dying on the cross Jesus had lived to sire an army of holy warriors bent on forging a New Covenant? Preposterous, right? The random particles of this implausible premise collide in Covenant, a Christian action comic book reminiscent of another popular fiction on Christ.
"Some people have compared our project to Dan Brown's 'The Da Vinci Code,'" said Bates, a comic-book insider who managed Bookery Fantasy in Fairborn, Ohio for 18 years. "While both pose concepts that start with the life of Jesus and a possible lineage of Christ's descendents, the comparisons end there. Ours is more of an alternate history, socio-political, science-fiction action story with only a hint of the conspiracy so integral to 'Da Vinci Code.' But if the comparison makes our comic book more visible, more power to it."
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The dashing superheroine of Covenant is Adonna. She's the daughter of a fisherman but might be a descendant of Jesus. Arch-villain Canthus is leader of a terrorist cell plotting against the Pax Euorpa Empire. Further complicating matters is emperor Cyrus the Caspian, a pig-eyed despot obsessed with world domination.
"People always wonder what our lives would be like if Christ never died on the cross," Bean explained. "What we did is set up an extreme situation and created that 'what if.' We have created a world where 2,000 years later, everything is completely different. It's a place where you wouldn't want to live."