This blog is basically a logging of all the stuff I've pack-ratted since childhood, carried around from town to town, and am now either trashing or re-using. We want to study everything from a Biblical point of view.
In one box I pulled from storage, I found a comic book sponsored by the NBA. [-garbage bound-] This book is kind of like the ones you get for free in the cereal box.
The comic turns basketball players into super-powered menaces who believe they're heroes. At least, that's what J. Jonah Jameson says.
The comic features stars like Dirk Nowitzki, Tracy McGrady and Elton Brand, the elite at the time of the book's 2004 publication. "Air and Space" is so generic that it's about as harmful as organic milk.
Any kid who likes this kind of cartoon already idolizes NBA players, so imagining Gilbert Arenas as a flying jumpsuit-wearing superhero is well-trod ground.
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| The super-ballers get their powers from a mystical basketball. That's not a typo. |
In the story, a team of twelve players take advice from a striking alien. The e.t. warns them of ugly creatures, his rivals, coming to attack Earth.
Turns out that the creatures are the good guys. Sure, this comic book is obviously a quick money grab. But the readers, if there were any kids who bought this, are taught that appearances can be deceiving--a biblical principle which goes down nicely.
John 7:24 Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.
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