The Demon Deacon of Gotham's Streets
DC comics has, over time, delved into supernatural and religious contexts to come up with superheroes and storylines. The Spectre, Dr Fate, Ragman, Azrael, and Zauriel, among others, are all heroes who take their powers from religious artifacts, or mythologies. There was even a Batman Elseworlds story Holy Terror , where he was an ordained priest by day, Batman by night. However, there aren't many stories in contemporary comics involving the believers. Pulp fiction from the 1920s and 30s, a place where comics gleaned much of their source material, often used cults as villainous foils. Belief can be a strong and terrifying phenomenon, and there aren't too many stories that explore that. Robert Anton Wilson once said "Belief is the death of Intelligence". Nietzsche said the foundation of Belief is "blindness and intoxication, and an eternal song over the waves in which Reason is drowned". Anyone who can manipulate Belief could be a terrifying an...