When Pope John Paul II was in Japan...

"he read a comic book there, about the life of Saint Francis of Assisi, and said the Pope 'I think there should be - a comic book about me, so let's call up Stan Lee." So goes the opening lyric of the Phranc song Caped Crusader*. It was about a limited edition comic book detailing the life of Karol Joseph Wojtyla, before and after he became Pope.

A bit odd, although if the lyrics are to be held true** a rather interesting subject. So this guy in South America has been working on the Incredible Popeman. In his comic book universe, the Pope dies and is resurrected infallible. He's been working on this since before the Pope's death, which makes it a bit more morbid, methinks.



* I couldn't find the full lyrics, but I found it referenced on the Feb 3, 2004 entry of a priest's blog about Mainstream Music.

** 1. C@ remembers a textbook using the exact same wordstring (he wrote a couple plays) as Phranc's song where she sings "he was gonna be an actor, but then he became a priest. Even after he joined the clergy he wrote a couple plays."
** 2. Phranc also mentions "64 full color pages" which appears to be the length of the one on Amazon. Personally, I want one of the original 500,000.