{"id":214,"date":"2005-04-28T22:11:50","date_gmt":"2005-04-29T02:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2005\/04\/28\/popeman-comics-kick-satans-ass\/"},"modified":"2005-04-28T22:11:50","modified_gmt":"2005-04-29T02:11:50","slug":"popeman-comics-kick-satans-ass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/04\/28\/popeman-comics-kick-satans-ass\/","title":{"rendered":"Popeman Comics Kick Satan&#8217;s Ass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a4951'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td height=\"122\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/homeopater.jpg\" width=\"210\" height=\"395\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"6\" align=\"left\">BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) &#8211; Pope John Paul II is being<br \/>\n        reborn in a Colombian comic book as a superhero battling evil with an<br \/>\n        anti-Devil cape and special chastity pants.<\/p>\n<p>The first episode of the &quot;Incredible Popeman&quot; is about to go on sale<br \/>\nin Colombia and shows the late Polish pontiff meeting comic book legends such<br \/>\nas Batman and Superman to learn how to use superpowers to battle Satan.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The pope was a real-life superhero, of flesh and blood,&quot; said Colombian<br \/>\nartist Rodolfo Leon, a non-practicing Catholic who has been working on the comic<br \/>\nbook for about a year.<\/p>\n<p>Like any self-respecting superhero, the Incredible Popeman has a battery of special<br \/>\nequipment. Along with his yellow cape and green chastity pants, the muscular<br \/>\nsuper-pontiff wields a faith staff with a cross on top and carries holy water<br \/>\nand communion wine.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sometimes an idea comes along that is just so perfect that you can&#8217;t<br \/>\n        believe it isn&#8217;t all part of some vast, multi-leveled marketing scheme.<br \/>\n        This is sure to be a collectors item, and with the current mania for<br \/>\n        turning successful comics into feature motion pictures, can a Hollywood<br \/>\n        blockbuster be far behind.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We will do our best to get our hands on a copy of this publication,<br \/>\n        so that we can translate and review more of it for our readers.&nbsp;We<br \/>\n        have contacts in Colombia, who are always looking for an excuse to send<br \/>\n        stuff to the States&#8230;&#8230;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&amp;u=\/nm\/oukoe_pope_comic\">Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) &#8211; Pope John Paul II is being reborn in a Colombian comic book as a superhero battling evil with an anti-Devil cape and special chastity pants. The first episode of the &quot;Incredible Popeman&quot; is about to go &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/04\/28\/popeman-comics-kick-satans-ass\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[576],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wacky-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}