In a world where Marvel pumps out unreadable (and increasingly unread) social justice comics featuring Muslim heroes and American villains, Bosch Fawstin continues his great work on The Infidel.
The Infidel is, on one level, a story of Pigman, a superhero and SuperJihad, a supervillain, but on another level it's also a story about their creator and about the choices we have all had to make since September 11. It's not just about superhuman legends. It's about the very human people who create them.
Here's what I wrote about The Infidel #3.
This is a story about more than just fighting Islamic violence; it's about the mindset that it takes to fight it. It's about the fact that killing terrorists, as the US still does, isn't enough without fighting for the truth.
The Infidel’s world, in which Duke Killian is hunted by his Muslim brother, is our world in which Muslim women are honor killed by their fathers and atheist bloggers in Bangladesh are brutally murdered. This is a story about the bloody price of Islam and the bloody price of fighting it. It’s about the moral cost of our choices told in a setting that encompasses a comic book version of our world and the real world.
At one point, Killian Duke addresses the jury, "If you told me after 9/11 that Pigman would be the only anti-Jihad comic book being published today, I wouldn't have believed it.“ And yet here we are in a world where Muslim superheroes are more acceptable than superheroes fighting Muslim terrorism.
That's still sadly true.
For all these years, The Infidel has existed in e-form. But now it will be hitting print for the first time at a very reasonable price. And you can pre-order it now.
If you're tired of the disgusting anti-American spectacle that comics have become or if you don't even read comics, but would like to see creative work that fight back not only against the terrorists, but their enablers, I encourage to pick up The Infidel #1 and see how it all began.
