America has been around long enough that an article in the magazine’s back pages actually commemorates the last centennial anniversary of the Council of Nicaea. Writing in 1925, the author claimed a ...

Victor von Doom and Tony Stark have crossed paths numerous times, with their conflicts often escalating into battles of cosmic proportions. Long before Doom donned the Iron Man mantle as the Infamous ...

Jesus’ procession was a parody of imperial power — a deliberate mockery of Roman spectacle and a prophetic enactment of a ...

Doomsday featured a few familiar names from Fox's X-Men universe, which could make these epic comics required reading.

Trondheim, Norway has actually served as a base for several of black metal’s finest chieftains: Enevelde’s phenomenal Brage ...

In colonial Latin America – called “New Spain” by European colonists – images of a white Jesus reinforced a caste system where white, Christian Europeans occupied the top tier, while those with darker ...

George Maniakes was a tremendously talented general with a famously bad temper who challenged the Byzantine emperor for the ...

He was despised and rejected by men; a man ... face, Lord, do I seek". Hide not your face from me. Turn not your servant away in anger, you who have been my help. Cast me not off, forsake me not ...

Still others have suggested he was a misunderstood man of the people—rather ... His portrait of Rudolf II depicts the Holy Roman Emperor as Vertumnus, ancient god of vegetation and the seasons.

On a stony peak somewhere in this region, according to biblical accounts, God spoke to Moses “face to face, as a man speaketh unto ... built by the Byzantine emperor Justinian 1,437 years ...