The best part - the opnly good part, really - about this press release is that the guy creating the comic is trying to package it as an homage to Pope John Paul II. It’s kind of brilliant in it’s slimieness, sort of how Terry Schiavo’s parents sold their list of email addresses from supporters to a spammer company. I wonder if DC is aware of Superman and Batman being used to train and promote Popeman…

Pope reborn as superhero in Colombian comic

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 Incredible Popeman is about to go on sale in Colombia and shows the late Polish pontiff meeting comic book legends such as Batman and Superman to learn how to use superpowers to battle Satan.

“The Pope was a real-life superhero, of flesh and blood,” said Colombian artist Rodolfo Leon, a non-practising Catholic who has been working on the comic book for about a year.

Along with his yellow cape and green chastity pants, the muscular super-pontiff wields a faith staff with a cross on top and carries holy water and communion wine.

“He isn’t John Paul II any more,” Leon said. “From now on, he’s the Incredible Popeman.”

Read the rest of the story about this highly humourous abomination here.

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