tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2672912018624878918.post851234753607264524..comments2024-01-31T19:44:34.430-05:00Comments on The Phantom Stranger: Saga of The Swamp Thing #7 - Nov. 1982rob!http://www.blogger.com/profile/17556471244882205031noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2672912018624878918.post-61298326501424937012009-01-26T17:56:00.000-05:002009-01-26T17:56:00.000-05:00The Secret Origins tale depicting the Phantom Stra...The <I>Secret Origins</I> tale depicting the Phantom Stranger as the Wandering Jew receiving absolution from the Christian God for denying Jesus was also written by Mike Barr.<BR/><BR/>I've always found that story deeply offensive and arguably anti-Semitic. I don't believe any offense was intended -- but in a way that makes it worse. I think it was simple carelessness in a tricky area where the author should have been more careful about the unintended meaning of his words. <BR/><BR/>Now I see the same writer was bringing religious motifs to the Stranger even earlier, and I can't say I like it any better.Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01714171897239398438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2672912018624878918.post-27549105405464291182009-01-26T07:33:00.000-05:002009-01-26T07:33:00.000-05:00Is this the first time we see PS actually talking ...Is this the first time we see PS actually talking to God? Or am I mis-remembering again? I think right around this time DC (or just MWB?) turned PS into more of a religious character, culminating in a Bible-based origin in Secret Origins a few years later. This to me is similar to how The Spectre became a direct tool of God and not just a supernatural super-hero. I'm not sure I liked this change.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com