Last week, the comic and pop culture world converged in San Diego for Comic-Con 2012. I attended and am still recovering from all the excitement (i.e., excellent panels, long lines, and camping out). So for this week, Take Two highlights previous posts that touch on comics, pop culture, and, as always, how they relate to the Christian faith. (more…)
July 20, 2012
Connecting Comics with Faith
Posted by Sandra under Apologetics, Belief, Comic-Con, Cultural Events, Movies, Superheroes | Tags: bad designs, benefits of fantasy, fallacies, Iron Man, Marvel, Spider-Man, superpowers, time travel, TRON, Zombies |[3] Comments
June 28, 2012
Spider-Man Spins a Design Argument
Posted by Sandra under Apologetics, Biomimicry, Design, Intelligent Design, Movies, Superheroes | Tags: bioengineering, spider webs, Spider-Man, Spiderman, synthetic webs, web shooters |[2] Comments
In a few days, fervent fans will scatter to the nearest theater to catch one of the most anticipated movies of the summer: The Amazing Spider-Man.
An exciting little detail about this franchise reboot is that it stays truer to the original comic books than previous films, with Spider-man (Andrew Garfield) shooting artificial webs from web-shooters (that he makes) rather than shooting organic webs from his wrists.
Might not seem like a big deal, but ask your friendly neighborhood comic book fan or bioengineer and you’ll discover the difference is huge! (more…)
May 18, 2012
Marvel Comics and Logical Fallacies
Posted by Sandra under Apologetics, Conversations, Debates, evangelism, Superheroes | Tags: logical fallacies, Marvel, Spider-Man, Spiderman |[13] Comments
The other day a few of us on staff took a break to discuss an urgent topic:
Who is the best* super hero in the Marvel universe?
Tolerant observers in this roundtable discussion shared their opinion and shrugged off opposing views with indifference. But the longtime, diehard fans clung to their views like Spidey to a wall. (more…)