Jesus as a superhero comic

Let's assume Norse or Classical religion is dominant atl. Let's assume superhero comics or an equivalent exist and Christianity was extinct for hundreds of years.

What Would The Mighty Jesus superhero comic look like.
 
Well, healing powers are cool for starters, and so is multiplying food or turning water into wine (maybe a wine that gives his aides temporal superpowers, too, and is drunk from one secret chalice?). Also, all superheros have their bleak or deficient side or Background - for Jesus it's that he wasn't Joseph's son and his mother always fantasized crazy stuff of having conceived him with some oriental sky god. (Jesus is the only one who believes her, while everyone else says it was the sandal-maker from the next village.)

His rescue of the poor adultereress or of that tax collector need a lot more action of course, so he's certainly acquired martial arts somewhere in the East and fights off both evil pharisees and Roman soldiers, always causing minimal injuries to the while still taking them out of combat.

And even when he has died in on Episode, that's no reason not for him to return in the next one...!
 
OTL Apocryphal Jesus (from the Gospel of Thomas, for example) has way crazier superpowers even as a child. Even Apollonius has nothing on Apocryphal Jesus. And he's way more like Original Batman when it comes to having those who vex him drop dead.
 
He'd be on a team with Captain Vinland, the Scarlett Seidewoman, Eagleeye, the Incredible Beserker, and Ironman.
 
He can calm storms too--that makes him pretty useful and a natural foil to anyone with weather-based powers. I'm sure he'd fight some interesting foes like Legion, Pilate, Judas, Herod, Caiaphas, and of course Satan himself.
 
Given that Superman has been used as a Jesus allegory so often, I think there’s a good template.

An omnipotent pacifist non-interventionist wouldn’t be exciting for comic books, but it would make for good plot lines.
 
. . . and Christianity was extinct for hundreds of years. . .
Christianity is far too colorful to be extinct! :)

Maybe if most individual Christians were just more relaxed, acknowledging that, yes, the classical Gods of Jupiter, Juno, Neptune, Mercury, Diana, etc, are one way to understand the principle of God, but not near as accessible and accurate as Jesus
 
I think that the more interesting story for these Comics to tell would be about the various Saints of OTL and what they did in their lives. 'Jesus' in this TL would be more like the Holy Spirit, some kind of guiding figure that occasionally came to earth and raised up a great Hero in times of need: 'Jesus' would be more of a legacy character, passed on between different incarnations.

The villains could be interesting. Just from the New Testament, we could see something like this:
Legion, an army of ONE THOUSAND DEMONS that work as one.
The Accuser, a sadistic torturer who loves to see how much it takes to break someone.
The Pharisees, a cult that manipulates the law to their own ends.
The Whore of Babylon, the mother of all demons, prophesied to herald the end of the world.
The Romans as an evil empire.
Various false prophets/magicians.

A lot of the character arcs would be interesting to see, like Peter trying to live up to Jesus' legacy as his chosen successor, of Paul/Saul going from one of the main villains of the series to one of its main heroes.

And if we extend it back to the Old Testament...
 
Well, healing powers are cool for starters, and so is multiplying food or turning water into wine (maybe a wine that gives his aides temporal superpowers, too, and is drunk from one secret chalice?). Also, all superheros have their bleak or deficient side or Background - for Jesus it's that he wasn't Joseph's son and his mother always fantasized crazy stuff of having conceived him with some oriental sky god. (Jesus is the only one who believes her, while everyone else says it was the sandal-maker from the next village.)

His rescue of the poor adultereress or of that tax collector need a lot more action of course, so he's certainly acquired martial arts somewhere in the East and fights off both evil pharisees and Roman soldiers, always causing minimal injuries to the while still taking them out of combat.

And even when he has died in on Episode, that's no reason not for him to return in the next one...!

Don't forget he's a carpenter, so he's already naturally quite strong. He'd basically be a superhuman tank if you don't want to give him martial arts skills, into which it becomes stories of how he'll save the PEOPLE in the nick of time, not him necessarily being hurt (a la Superman).
 
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It's been done.

Jesus ripped himself off the cross and is about to throwdown with Zeus.

not to mention in Kohta Hirano's Drifters, the Black King is heavily implied to be Jesus turned bad.
 

Kaze

Banned
Ever seen Saint Young Men? Just take the Slice of Life and make it Shonen, there you go.

for information's sake

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Young_Men

The author himself and the publisher has already said that it will not be translated into English - they knows America loves their guns and their Jesus, they fears a Charlie Hebdo repeat.
 
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