COLOMBIA: COLOMBIAN ARTIST PAINTS POPE JOHN PAUL II AS SUPERHERO HOMO PATER IN A NEW COMIC BOOK

Record ID: 388032

  • Title: COLOMBIA: COLOMBIAN ARTIST PAINTS POPE JOHN PAUL II AS SUPERHERO HOMO PATER IN A NEW COMIC BOOK
  • Date: 18th January 2005
  • Summary: (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) PRIEST JESUS ORJUELA SAYING: "I like the things he has shown. I like the name he has given him, the Homo Pater. The man that during war, looks for peace. The values that he wants this character to show are of a Homo Pater super man. It's good that he want's to show the good values but if he over does it with the super hero symbolism he could make this
  • Embargoed: 2nd February 2005 12:00
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  • Location: BOGOTA, COLOMBIA
  • Country: Colombia
  • Topics: Entertainment,Religion
  • Reuters ID: LVAB6FAIZYB8CCQOFZPBHHLSTWAK
  • Story Text: Super hero's are all the rage. Some stretch like elastic, some are strong, some are invisible but a Colombian cartoonist in Bogota has chosen Pope John Paul II to be his superhero.
    Homo Pater is the name Rodolfo Leon has given his super hero after years of working on the stories and drawings over the last one and one half years.
    "In my comic book it isn't the Pope. In my comic he is called the Incredible Homo Pater and he lives in a world that is very much like this one and he lives in a house very much like the Vatican, but it isn't the Vatican," said Leon.
    "That's why I can take liberties and do what I like.
    I am playing around with the idea of creator, God the creator, all the things that one creates."
    The Holy Father now has his own comic strip character that wrestles, literally, with evil forces and defends catholics everywhere. "The values that he wants this character to show are of a Homo Pater super man," said local priest Jesus Orjuela.
    "It's good that he want's to show the good values but if he over does it with the super hero symbolism he could make this ridiculous."
    The church has yet to declare Homo Pater persona non grata but his weapons may prove too violent for those who choose to turn the other cheek.
    The holy cartoon character keeps anti-demon handcuffs, a sin shield , and chastity underwear at the ready. His super belt has a compartment for holy water just in case he needs to perform an emergency exorcism.
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