Line #46 ShownTheirWork/ComicBooks


1	* In ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo'' the writers intended to have [[ComicBook/GothamCentral Renee]] [[ComicBook/TheQuestion Montoya]] be an actual alcoholic, not a light-hearted HardDrinkingPartyGirl. To help illustrate this, in one scene she takes a pair of aspirin while on a stakeout. The panel where she puts the pills in her mouth was specifically drawn to give the impression that she was chewing the pills and not just swallowing them; this is, apparently, "an old drunks' trick."
2	* ''ComicBook/AllStarComics'': There's a very clear attempt by Gardner Fox to add some educational value to these stories. In a story where the JSA members go to different countries in Central and South America to root out Nazis, the chapters will open with facts about each country as part of the opening narration. When the JSA fight metal invaders from Jupiter (go with it), each chapter opens with some facts about a different metal. When the various team members visit different years in a man's life, there's a list of facts about that particular year that open each chapter.
3	** This is a hallmark of Gardner Fox’s comics in general, in particular ComicBook/TheFlash, ComicBook/AdamStrange and the ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica. Whether it’s the use of lime to defeat an alien starfish (lime is harmful to real non-alien starfish) or Adam Strange having to catch Zeta beams in the Southern Hemisphere (Alpha Centauri, where Rann is located, is only visible in the Southern Hemisphere), Fox was very fond of including real scientific facts alongside standard Silver Age gobbledygook.
4	* ''ComicBook/AmericanFlagg'' included a recipe for each story that showed Reuben Flagg's cooking Italian food.
5	* The creators of ComicBook/{{Asterix}} will frequently fudge dates for the sake of a story, or engage in blatant AnachronismStew for the sake of a gag, but they also frequently demonstrate that they ''do'' know a lot about Gaulish and Roman culture and history. For example, the horoscopes in ''Asterix and the Missing Scroll'' use authentic Celtic tree astrology.
6	* Many ComicBook/{{Batman}} stories written by Doug Moench, especially from the ''Batman'' flagship title, take unexpected sidesteps from the actual plot to allow for lengthy monologues or discussions of scientific, religious or philosophical nature. Unsurprisingly, even the discussions between two characters come across like the writer talking down to the audience.
7	** Examples include: a museum security guard explaining the infamous Brontosaurus/Apatosaurus revision in ''Showcase '93'' # 7, police lieutenant "Hardback" Bock giving a lengthy discussion about the origins and details of real-life alchemy in ''Batman'' # 546, and a detailed description of photosynthesis as utilized by algae in ''Batman'' # 367.
8	* ''ComicBook/BlakeAndMortimer'': Edgar P. Jacobs did a lot of research on the setting of each of the franchise's album:
9	** "[[Recap/TheSecretOfTheSwordfish The Secret of the Swordsfish]]" :
10	*** The album's main villains, [[TheEmpire the Yellow]] [[YellowPeril Empire]] are based on Japan's Shōwa Statism.
11	*** Jacobs brings great importance to the realism of the exterior decors. Thus, to draw a "fantastic shore" where the rocks plunge into the sea, he asked the advice of the French explorer François Balsan. The latter describes the landscapes, sends him plans and advises him to read the numbers of the Geographical relating the journeys of the Hungarian-British archaeologist and explorer Aurel Stein in the region Jacobs wanted to depict.
12	** "The Mystery of the Great Pyramid" : to depict Egypt as accurately as possible, Jacobs read for three years several historians and egyptologists' books, such as Herodotus (he used his description of Horus's chamber as a basis for Horus's chamber in the comic), Abd al-Latif and Strabo, amongst others. He also contacted the egyptologyst and historian Pierre Gilbert and asked him to verify the accuracy of Egypt's depiction in the comic.
13	** "[[Recap/TheYellowM The Yellow "M"]]" :
14	*** Jacobs personally went to London in 1952 and took many pictures there he later on used to depict London as realistically in possible. While he didn't went to all the places depicted in the story, he still tried to be realistic about these places, with Limehouse Dock's depiction being based on a Country Life photography. Jacobs went so far in his research he inadvertently saved one of his readers' life : the reader, a Canadian tourist in London, had inadvertently poisoned himself and survived because he remembered England's emergency number because a Daily Mail employee used it to contact the police in "The Yellow "M"".
15	*** Inspector Kendall tries to explain away M's invulnerability as BulletproofVest; the ballistic expert [[AvertedTrope rejects that possibility]].
16	** "Atlantis Mystery": Atlantis's hypothetical location is based on Plato's description of Atlantis.
17	** "S.O.S. Meteors : Mortimer in Paris", set [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin in Paris]] and its suburbs, [[ExaggeratedTrope exaggerates this trope]] to ridiculous degrees. So much ''[[http://www.sosmeteores.net/ an entire website]]'' was created about the places depicted in the story. {{Justified\|Trope}}: Jacobs made several trips to Paris.
18	*** The train stations alone deserve a mention. Mortimer gets out of a taxi at the [[http://emmanuelmailly.free.fr/invalides.htm Invalides train station]], joins Ernest Brisson at the Versailles-Rive-Gauche train station (nowadays [[http://emmanuelmailly.free.fr/versailles-rg.htm Versailles-Château Rive Gauche]]), Blake arrives at the [[http://emmanuelmailly.free.fr/garedejouy.htm Jouy-en-Josas train station]], Mortimer and the mailman Louis passes through the [[http://emmanuelmailly.free.fr/petit-jouy.htm Petit-Jouy - Les Loges train station]], Blake, pursued by Olrik's [[TheDragon minion]], passes through the [[http://emmanuelmailly.free.fr/ignygare.htm Igny]], [[http://emmanuelmailly.free.fr/massy-palaiseau.htm Massy-Palaiseau]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cité_Universitaire_(Paris_RER) Cité Universitaire]] and [[http://emmanuelmailly.free.fr/portroyal.htm Port-Royal]] train stations and Olrik's minion stops at the Luxembourg train station.
19	*** [[http://emmanuelmailly.free.fr/essaiparent1.htm The cars]] and [[http://emmanuelmailly.free.fr/essaiparent1.htm the buses]] were based on contemporary transportation by the time of the album's setting.
20	*** The Palais Garnier, The Madeleine Church, The Saint-Eustache Church in Les Loges-en-Josas, the Saclay Nuclear Research Center, the Toussus-le-Noble airport, and the Haut-Buc castle are amongst the many, ''many'' actual places depicted in the comic.
21	** "The Time Trap": The Orly Airport, the Louvois hotel, the La Roche-Guyon castle and the Crêtes road are actual places depicted in that story, once more set in Paris and its suburbs.
22	** "The Necklace Affair": The story is once again set in Paris. Most if not all the places the characters went to actually exists, such as the entry to the Catacombs of Paris. The CarChase scene between Duranton and the police alone depicts several existing streets in the 14th and 15th arrondissements of Paris.
23	** "Professor Sató's Three Formulae": While Jacobs didn't to to Japan, the album's setting, he still wanted to be as accurate as possible and as a result, he used as much documents about Japan as he could, and contacted Shigehiko Hasumi to help him, going as far as to ''spend three weeks trying to discover what Japanese trash bins actually looked like''.
24	* Brian K. Vaughan has a tendency to throw random factoids into his comics writing. While this is reasonable for [[ComicBook/YTheLastMan a comic about the importance of women in everyday life]], it's a bit ridiculous when you're reading ''[[ComicBook/UltimateXMen Ultimate X-Men]]'' and a cop mentions how many people are born with a thirteenth rib. Vaughan's not above a little SelfDeprecation about it.
25	* Creator/{{Disney}} comics are not usually known for their accuracy, with one notable exception: Stories by the renowned comic book writer and illustrator Creator/DonRosa often present surprisingly accurate and well-researched history, geography and even science (for example, if you see some mathematical formula in some comic of his, you can be pretty certain the formula is, in fact, real and accurate). Rosa is known for the amount of research he makes for some of his stories.
26	** ''WesternAnimation/{{DuckTales\|1987}}'' especially demonstrated scientific principles quite often -- possibly to make up for the fact that the main character was a talking duck.
27	** In the collected edition of ''ComicBook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck'', Rosa notes out that he found specific points in time where certain historical figures would be in the same place. He also mentions when he has to "bend" the facts at certain points to make a better story, but it's fairly rare.
28	*** Though this is the comic that gave us the story of [[Series/MythBusters raising a sunken ship using ping-pong balls]].
29	* In ''ComicBook/ExMachina'', everyone slips statistics or historical factoids into their dialogue without missing a beat. Then again the main cast is the Mayor of UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity and his staff. Politicians are usually pretty good at spewing out statistics. This is lampshaded when Creator/BrianKVaughan and Tony Harris meet by a statue (yes, inside the comic) and Brian starts to say something about the statue, until Tony interrupts him and pleads him not to say random factoids.
30	* Just about every [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] ''ComicBook/TheFlash'' story is solved using a random law of physics, expressed by Barry Allen (a forensic scientist) as a "Flash Fact". Wally West, thankfully, remembers the lessons from his days as Kid Flash, though now he has the Speed Force to help him with all the [[RequiredSecondaryPowers stuff that can't be done by physics]].
31	** A famous example of this in the Barry Allen period is when the Flash is fighting an alien who has a destructive sheath of fire around him. What follows is a science lesson of the natural ways to put out a fire with each failing against the creature's extreme heat, until the speedster realizes that fire cannot exist without air and runs around the creature fast enough to drastically lower the air pressure enough within the circle to put out the flames and suffocate the alien.
32	* In James Stokoe's comic ''ComicBook/GodzillaTheHalfCenturyWar'', during a fight between Godzilla and Anguirus, the latter doesn't curl up into a ball like he did in Final Wars or any of the other comics, he instead turns around with his spikes pointing at his enemies and launches himself backwards. Also there's a lot of references and MythologyGags to show Stokoe is not only a huge fan of the franchise, he also did a vast amount of research. Not only that but the way he designs the environments is very accurate to the time periods they happen to be set in.
33	* In ''ComicBook/GodzillaOngoing'', it's mentioned by Boxer that Edinburgh Castle is set over an extinct volcano, which he and his team of monster hunters [[spoiler: use to defeat Anguirus]].
34	* ''ComicBook/YTheLastMan'' often feature characters randomly spouting statistics about exactly how many women are involved in which professions in which parts of the world. This is probably the kind of thing lots of people would know, given the setting.
35	* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' often has tidbits about this or that, mostly about spider biology.
36	* In one ComicBook/XMen story involving the space shuttle nearly everything was correct - and this comic was written before the first time a shuttle actually went into space. Props to Creator/ChrisClaremont!
37	* Like the Flash, a lot of the Silver Age [[ComicBook/TheAtom Atom]] stories were heavily grounded in science and spent quite some time teaching it to the kids. One particularly extreme example is a story that essentially told the story of the telescope with a teensy bit of super heroism thrown into the middle.
38	* Creator/AlanMoore loves to do this. Probably the best example is ''ComicBook/FromHell'', which features a lengthy annotations section describing the research he put into making the comic & the truth (or lack thereof) behind the more fantastic elements.
39	** ''ComicBook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'' has annotations online that include paragraphs of text explaining single panels.
40	* ComicBook/AtomicRobo has an excellent basis in real world history and science. Brian and Scott often gush about the research they've done, and are the first to point out when they apply ArtisticLicense.
41	* Creator/NeilGaiman does this a lot with mythology. He also has a tendency, though, to come up with things that ''sound'' like they came from actual myth or history, but he really just pulled out of his ass to fit the plot. Finding out which is which is part of the fun.
42	** Gaiman pretended at the end of ''Dream Hunters'' that the story was adapted from the tale "''The Fox, the Monk, and the Mikado of All Night's Dreaming''", a traditional Japanese tale he had found in the book ''Fairy Tales of All Japan'' by Rev. B. W. Ashton while doing research for ''Anime/PrincessMononoke''. This information was mentioned in almost every critique of the book. A few years later, Gaiman admitted in the preface of ''Endless Nights'' that he had completely made it up.
43	** A similar example exists, though not based in mythology when he did research for ''Literature/AmericanGods''. Having researched various cons for his con-artist character, he made up entirely the most overtly criminal of the cons - namely, stealing several thousand dollars from a bank. He was very surprised to find when someone actually copied the plan from the book and stole several thousand dollars from a bank. ([[Film/CatchMeIfYouCan Frank Abagnale Jr.]] did that in RealLife decades before Gaiman put it on paper, though it's unclear if he knew about it while writing the book.)
44	** His ''ComicBook/{{Marvel 1602}}'' really shows how much research he did into Marvel history, or just knew off the top of his head. For example:
45	*** Nicholas Fury describes his organization as England's "shield", a reference to his "S.H.I.E.L.D." organization in the regular comics. However, he also mentions that [[ComicBook/SpiderMan Peter Parquagh's]] parents used to work for him.
46	*** Not to mention this universe's version of Iceman: he changes his name from "Bobby Drake" to "Roberto Trefusis", then includes a brief scene where Trefusis mentions that he's a nephew of the famed seaman Sir Francis Drake. Sir Francis Drake actually was related by marriage to a family named "Trefusis", which Gaiman found out through some well-placed research into Drake's family history.
47	* Creator/GarthNix does something similar to the above, but it largely amounts to him throwing in every bit of cool-sounding mythology he can find. [[RuleOfCool No one minds]]. In one of his books, he says how surprised he was when his editor informed him he couldn't use Aboriginal elements in his story because he was a white Australian.
48	* Creator/LarryNiven did the prestige format "Ganthet's Tale" for ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'', and inserted his own hard science twist to Hal Jordan's known abilities. Hal has to defeat a rogue green lantern, but they are too evenly matched. So Hal uses his ring to fly at near-lightspeed - backwards, away from the target. He then lets loose with a green energy beam of power. But because Hal is moving away at near-light, the beam is red-shifted, and transforms into a YELLOW beam, which bypasses the other lantern's defenses. This was used [[ItOnlyWorksOnce little if it all afterwards]]. Bizarrely enough, one of the few other places this turns up in was ''{{WesternAnimation/Superfriends}}'', where Hal Jordan is able to free himself from a bubble created by Sinestro this way.
49	* ''ComicBook/ClanApis''. Is a educational work that happens to also tell an interesting story. Jay Hosler is an entomologist/biologist and writes his works with education as the main point... though that's not to say that his works don't have a good narrative push. Another example of this is Optical Allusions and... well... you can tell by the title that he's done the research.
50	* ''ComicBook/KingdomCome'' couldn't possibly have been made without the most intimate understanding of every facet of Franchise/TheDCU.
51	** Creator/MarkWaid, the man who wrote it, is known as "the living, breathing DC encyclopedia" due to the insane amount of knowledge he has on Franchise/TheDCU; to the point where DC sometimes holds "stump Mark Waid" contests at conventions just to find out what he ''doesn't'' know.
52	* George Woodbridge was a ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'' artist for over forty years. He was also one of the world's foremost experts on historical military uniforms. Every time he drew military personnel, their uniforms were accurate down to the right kind of buttons for the time period.
53	* When it comes to adding random (albeit often relevant) factoids into the dialogue, Creator/PeterDavid can outdo Creator/BrianKVaughan any day.
54	* Creator/GregRucka did a shocking amount of research on the geography, history, weather and politics of Antarctica for his first comic, ''ComicBook/{{Whiteout}}''. The portrayal of the continent itself and the behavior of research stations and governments on its territory has been heralded as one of the most accurate depictions of Antarctica in American media.
55	** It also showed up in his ComicBook/WonderWoman stories. The Hiketeia ritual in his titular ''ComicBook/WonderWomanTheHiketeia'', is an actual, if obscure, custom from Ancient Greek mythology. Bruce and Diana are referring to an actual event ''Literature/TheIliad'' when Bruce brings up Lykaon prostrating themselves before Achilles.
56	* Anything Pat Mills has written. So much so that the reason he quit writing ''[[ComicBook/{{Battle}} Charley's War]]'' was due to a dispute over his research budget.
57	* Creator/LarryHama is a Vietnam veteran, military expert, and Japanophile. This is apparent in the level of detail that appears whenever he writes a comic book dealing with those topics, such as ''[[ComicBook/GIJoeARealAmericanHeroMarvel G.I. Joe]]'' and ''ComicBook/NthManTheUltimateNinja''.
58	* Early on in ''ComicBook/TheLosers'', some random criminals are ambushed while doing a deal at a dock, near their car. One advises his colleague to hide near the wheel well of the car, since bodywork won't stop their attackers' bullets, while the engine probably would. There are not many people who know this. [[WriterOnBoard There are even less who would mention it in the middle of an ambush]].
59	* Many of Mike Mignola's ''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}'' stories are essentially retellings of documented folktales, often using details that would usually be lost in modern versions. For example, "The Corpse" is mostly derived from "Teig O'Kane and the Corpse," which originally appeared in a compilation of Irish folklore edited by William Butler Yeats.
60	* Before writing the ''ComicBook/MegaManArchieComics'' comic, Ian Flynn heavily researched the series, and it shows. [[http://megaman.wikia.com/wiki/Chest,_Plum_and_Ripot Chest, Plum, and Ripot]] from the obscure MascotRacer ''Battle & Chase'' appear in the first issue reporting on Light's new robots, that issue's ''Short Circuits'' has a MythologyGag to both the [[WesternAnimation/MegaManRubySpears cartoon]] and the hilariously bad American box art of the first game, and Fire Man retains his Southern accent from ''VideoGame/MegaManPoweredUp''.
61	* The St. Patrick's Day themed Hot-Topic [[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-uCGtDlC5lK4/URb4NeZuIOI/AAAAAAAAcg4/W84gB9H4U-o/s1600/KuJqyaK.jpg variant cover of Issue 4]] of ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDW'' has Lyra in a pony version of an appropriate Irish stepdance dress.
62	* ''ComicBook/ThePunisherBorn'': In order to ensure maximum authenticity for the miniseries, Creator/GarthEnnis and artist Creator/DarickRobertson, looked through countless photographs of GI's that were provided to them by friends and family members of theirs who had served in UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar. Watched dozens of documentaries about the war, all in order to represent the conflict in the most accurate way possible.
63	* Following the CosmicRetcon of ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'', the writers needed to quickly refill the cast with new characters to replace the ones that had been written out - basically, any that hadn't been created by either Sega or [=DiC=]. To do this, instead of creating an entirely supporting cast on short notice, they decided to look to the more obscure bits of Sonic's history for inspiration, ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'' in particular. This resulted in re-imaginings of such characters as Breezie the Hedgehog, Wes Weaselly, and even Professor Von Schlammer from "Boogie Mania" (the "pingas" episode).
64	* From the beginning, ''ComicBook/TheTaleOfOneBadRat'' was meant as a modern-day analogue of the life of Creator/BeatrixPotter and the Lake District or England. Creator/BryanTalbot decided on sexual abuse as the reason for Helen running away from home as a simple reason, without thinking much about it. Then he started to research the psychology of abused children.
65	* ''ComicBook/{{Three}}'': Kieron Gillen did a lot of research into Spartan society to get the details right according to the most recent academic literature on the topic. The notes even contain an extended discussion between Gillen and a professor of history who specializes in that particular period.
66	* ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'': A comic famous for its research, such as when Tintin and the gang go to the moon with all scientific plausibility that the cartoonist, Hergé, could create. In fact, Hergé was notorious for his early [[TheThemeParkVersion Theme Park Version]] travelogue stories, until a friend convinced him to do serious research, beginning with ''Recap/TintinTheBlueLotus''. The result is a story in China that has been praised as an excellent primer for the China of the 1930s.
67	** The best thing is walking through the Art/History Museum in Brussels and discovering e.g. the fetish statue from the "Recap/TintinTheBrokenEar" album.
68	** Herge's drive for realism probably culminated in ''Recap/TintinTheCalculusAffair'', where the amount detail put into background art and scene composition would have put a movie cinematographer to shame. In fact, in planning for a minor scene in the story where enemy spies force Tintin's car off the road into Lake Geneva, Hergé actually sent a employee to drive along Lake Geneva to find a location where assassins might plausibly force a car off the road.
69	*** In the same story, the fire truck shown after the house explodes was the exact reproduction of the actual fire truck of the town, down to the NUMBER PLATE.
70	*** Probably inspired by Hergé's example, anal-retentive amounts of research and detail has become a defining trait of the ''ligne claire'' comic artists.
71	* ''ComicBook/{{Superlopez}}'': The comic's cartoony style is combined with an astoundingly realistic attention to detail: if you want to know what a typical Spanish city looked like during TheEighties, you need only look at a Superlopez story of the period.
72	* ''ComicBook/UsagiYojimbo'': Stan Sakai likes to have an occasional story where he features various craftwork of Japan depicted in detail like swordmaking, cheating at gambling, kite making and pottery. It went even further when he devoted multiple chapters in a major arc to the legendary history of the famous sword, Kusanagi, ''before'' the eponymous hero came into the story. This devotion to proper research has earned Sakai a Parent's Choice Award for the comic for its educational value. Also, he often literally uses this trope by including a few paragraphs summarising his research on whatever was depicted in the comic in the letters section.
73	* ''Wolverine First Class'' had an issue about Wolverine helping a team of Canadian superheroes rescue the Governor-General of Canada, who was being held hostage in ''La Citadelle'' in Quebec City. It had accurate descriptions of Canada's government, fairly spot-on drawings of Canadian military uniforms, and a few nice {{bilingual bonus}}es.
74	* In ''[[ComicBook/BatwomanRebirth Batwoman: Rebirth]]'' #1, West Point cadets Kate Kane and Sophie Moore are shown sparring, and the boxing gear they wear does not resemble any type used by the Academy, neither past nor present. Rather than being a mistake, however, this lines up with something that was actually happening at the time. The scene is set in fall of 2010, which was around a year after West Point's women's boxing club was first established; part of that, due to budget constraints, meant that members had to provide their own gear. Thus, Kate and Sophie were almost certainly members of that club. Sophie also has dialogue implying Kate had previously beaten her in a boxing match, which also checks out; in February of 2010, the Academy's annual Brigade Boxing Open featured female cadets for the first time in five years, which had been a goal of the new club.
75	* Creator/JonathanHickman is a master of this trope, as best demonstrated by ''ComicBook/TheManhattanProjects''. The comic is a ridiculously over-the-top BlackComedy that takes AlternateHistory to it's most ludicrous extremes and portrays major historical figures as cartoonish supervillains out to TakeOverTheWorld... but at the same time, it features a downright ''insane'' amount of [[HistoricalInJoke nods to real history]] that show off the intense research Hickman did. Many of the more absurd plot points and jokes are actually references to/parodies of real events; Harry Daghlian gets [[RadiationInducedSuperpowers radioactive superpowers]] (from the same accident that ''killed him'' in real life), [[UsefulNotes/FermiParadox Enrico Fermi]] is an alien in disguise, UsefulNotes/LyndonJohnson is a psychotic {{Cowboy}} (because he was born in Texas), and so on.
76	* A minor one but the ''{{Series/Firefly}}'' comic ‘’Watch How I Soar'' shows a title page picture of what’s supposed to be Wash’s grave with a tree growing out of it. We can see his skeleton in a curled up position. This actually makes sense given he was sitting in his pilot’s seat when the spear came through. By the time anyone could remove the body, it would’ve been stiffening in rigor mortis, and they likely simply buried him that way rather than further damaging anything trying to straighten him.
77	* Italian comics satirizing Catholicism tend to be extremely accurate about it:
78	** ''Jenus'' has a field time with this:
79	*** The author remembers that [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm God defies description]] and has fun with it, with God's first appearance having him as a giant that somehow stands behind a human-sized desk and, [[LampshadeHanging upon being asked how he's doing it]], explains just that but [[AFormYouAreComfortableWith can appear in more easily tolerated forms]], such as a daisy in a vase or Music/RonnieJamesDio.
80	*** The author also loves to remind that [[JesusWasWayCool Jesus had a wicked sense of humor]] and could muster quite a temper. In particular, during his First Coming he was prone to torment Judas with pranks and jokes (as he ''needed'' him to genuinely hate him), and a non-canon strip portrays him providing a toilet-shaped tombstone for [[RippedFromTheHeadlines a Nazi war criminal that had died at the time the strip had been published and no Italian city wanted buried in their territory]].
81	*** Jesus is represented as shorter than most of the other (Italian) characters, with fair skin, shoulder-length brown hair, and a short beard, and otherwise unremarkable, consistently with Mizrahi Jews and customs of 1st century Palestine.
82	*** Pilate, true to historical character, didn't care one way or the other for people of Judaea as long as they didn't interrupt his pleasures. [[spoiler:After Judas is killed early by outside interference Jesus recruits him to proceed with the Passion and the Crucifiction by turning his wine into water and threatening to do the same with ''all'' his wine, also implying he'd give him a lot of quality wine if he instead helps]]. He's also portrayed based on his existing busts, and noticeably taller than Jesus and His Apostles.
83	** ''Suore Ninja'' also has its fun:
84	*** The new Pope chooses to call himself Constantine Vitalian, after his favorite predecessors. They actually existed, and him choosing to name himself after these obscure Popes neatly foreshadows his political acumen.
85	*** When the Virgin Mary makes her appearance in the classically depicted form of a Nordic beauty the titular Ninja Nuns, who are actual nuns, ''fail to recognize her'' until pointed out, as the actual Mary would have looked Middle Eastern and not like "a Swedish beauty". It's later revealed it was actually a (male) impersonator.
86	*** Papal Infallibility is later mentioned and specified that the Pope is always right about Catholic doctrine ''and only about it'' by virtue of being God's representative on Earth. [[spoiler:As a consequence it's automatically revoked when God comes on Earth to cause the Apocalypse]].
87	*** Like in ''Jenus'', God's true form is unknowable. He ''appears'' as a triangle with an eye, and is impossibly seen as a triangle no matter where one looks at Him from.
88	*** Late in the comic it had been a plot point that the BigBad was assembling Saint Frankenstein from parts of various saints to [[RageAgainstTheHeavens destroy God and take His place]]. Eventually Saint Frankenstein is assembled and deployed with strong support [[spoiler:to prevent the Apocalypse]]... And God [[BoltOfDivineRetribution knocks everyone out with a bored bolt of lightning]], as He is all-powerful.

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