Lewis, A.D. (2020, March 16). Is it medicine, is it religion, or is it both? An interview with comic book writer Al Ewing. BMJ Medical Humanities Blog. Retrieved from https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-humanities/2020/03/16/is-it-medicine-is-it-religion-or-is-it-both-an-interview-with-comic-book-writer-al-ewing/
ABSTRACT:
In this discussion with award-winning comic book author Al Ewing, comics theorist and graphic medicine researcher A. David Lewis explores the growing idea that the comics medium may be drawing medicine and religion—bodily health and spiritual affairs—more closely towards each other via its superhero titles. From Ewing’s revolutionary work on The Immortal Hulk to his reinvention of Dr. Jane Foster from cancer (and superhero) survivor to new Asgardian demigod, a zeitgeist may be emerging where audiences are looking for fewer boundaries in the powers that might yet save them.