Comic Book Environment Features Black Christian Heroes

Code, Joe and Max are black religious superheroes in The Guardian Line of of comic boiks published by Milestone Media. Milestone Media joined forces with Chicago-based Urban Ministries Inc to increase market penetration. Urban Ministries Inc, founded in 1970, is an independently owned and operated African American Christian media company with a distribution network of 40,000 churches and 1,500 bookstores for its books, CDs and DVDs.

The Genesis 5 comic book has five angels as high school students, whereas Code pursues a wealthy evildoer. The Seekers comic book features Joe and Max as the guardian angel and his guardian angel. (Wash Post)