(October 17, 2013 at 8:24 am)Sword of Christ Wrote: If you want to establish how these "fake angels" aren't the same things as "real angels" you would still need to explain the difference within the setting. Angels who are (or can potentially be) hostile to humans are generally called something else though.
That is as simple as calling them something else. "Aliens" would be the most likely culprit. Anything that is outside of the planet can be described in a way that would apply to angels, demons, gods, and aliens. If the writer is lazy he'll just have characters state this without justification and skip to the maiming and the killing. If he's determined to make this a central point of his story (which seems to be the case here) he'll need to create a more elaborate explanation.
Whether he does that I don't know, I was not impressed enough by the preview images to want to find this particular comic. The concept of granting power to something by virtue of belief may have some philosophical value, but it's likely to be used due to laziness on the writer's part. No matter how many times you "defeat" the bad guys, they'll live to fight another day as long as someone, somewhere, believes. For a "continual" medium like comics, it's the perfect setting.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
