Former Marvel Comics writer Rick Remender’s The Sacrificers is a story about a world where each nation chooses a child to sacrifice to their “gods” for access to their “perfect world” and those who are chosen to be sacrificed. For the majority of the story, we follow one of these children, a blue, bird-like creature without a name, as well as the “gods” in question.
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As we follow the blue bird on his journey, we meet interesting characters from unique, dynamic worlds with great, colorful art accompanying them. Spliced in between are well-done info dumps where we learn about the “gods” and their motives. Through this, our lead encounters a love interest, a whale treated differently from the other sacrificers.
This opens up the conversation that shows this may be a story for Christians to avoid, conversations where characters mock the idea of faith and sacrifice.
The problems are most notable in issue 3 when the love interest, who has been the most faithful of them all, experiences a brutal death. Before this, Rick Remender had set her up as a loving, naïve cult member who would be the love interest to our lead. She experiences the most brutal death of them all, though, and Rick makes sure to make it clear her death was filled with fear.
There are many quotes throughout that can be seen as Rick Remender mocking Christians through the pages. Calling the belief in eternal life “the power to delude yourself,” a quote from one of the “gods” as they drink from cups filled with the sacrificer’s essence (what is essentially their blood).
The story continues with those who have faith in the “gods” being punished for their faith and those who rebel being rewarded. The most prominent example is at the end, with our lead escaping his capture and being rewarded with the power of the “gods.” This is how the first volume ends.
Rick Remender has also attacked conservatives multiple times in the past, most infamously calling for supporters of President Donald Trump to stop supporting his work. It comes as no surprise that an anti-faith message appears in his comics.
As Christians, it’s hard to ignore Remender’s positions and views, ones he’s expressed in the past and ones he’s expressing through his work. You may feel convicted not to support Remender or want to avoid this story due to its heretical views. Rick Remender, however, is good at his craft, and even with the evil themes, the book comes across as well-written.
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