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DC cancels comic where Jesus learns from superhero after outcry

Written By Unknown on Tuesday, February 19, 2019 | 7:42 AM

The Second Coming series, which had been due to launch next month, has been pulled following campaign by conservative site CitizenGo

A new comics series in which Jesus Christ is sent on “a most holy mission by God” to learn “what it takes to be the true messiah of mankind” from a superhero called Sun-Man, has been cancelled by DC Comics. The move follows a petition that called it “outrageous and blasphemous”.

The Second Coming series, from DC imprint Vertigo, was due to launch on 6 March. Written by Mark Russell and illustrated by Richard Pace, its story followed Jesus’s return to Earth. “Shocked to discover what has become of his gospel,” he teams up with a superhero, Sun-Man, who is more widely worshipped than him.

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