by Patrick Ehlers

This article contains SPOILERS. If you haven’t read the issue yet, proceed at your own risk!

apocrypha: apoc·ry·pha | \ə-ˈpä-krə-fə

1. writings or statements of dubious authenticity
2. capitalized
   1. books included in the Septuagnint and Vulgate but excluded from the Jewish and Protestant canons of the Old Testament
   2. early Christian writings not included in the New Testament.

Why, in any discipline, can one work be canon while another is disregarded? This is one of those petulant questions I used to spit back at my confirmation teachers in high school. How can anyone be expected to believe a text over their experience of the world if there’s any room to believe the text could be false? Jonathan Hickman, Nick Dragotta and Frank Martin’s East of West 39 finds all of its characters in various states of deciding what to believe, sometimes even in spite of what they see. Continue reading →