Why Spidercade Studios' Christian-Based Comic Isn’t “Soft” — And Why That’s Intentional

When people hear phrases like “Christian-based comic” , "Christian superheroes" or anything similar, they often imagine something safe, gentle, and sanitized. Clean morals. Simple conflicts. Little to no violence. Family-friendly. Nothing uncomfortable.

But when one reads the Bible, both the Old and New Testaments, one will realize that it's not clean in that way. It's filled with war, betrayal, disease, injustice, corruption, sacrifice, and death. It doesn’t shy away from racism, oppression, abuse of power or the consequences of sin. And it certainly doesn’t avoid high stakes.

So Spidercade's comic series, Zero Hour Epsilon Force isn't about Christianity that avoids reality. It creates something through Christianity that confronts it.

Violence Isn’t the Point — Stakes and Scale Are

There’s action, blood and violence in Zero Hour Epsilon Force just like some of the cartoons a lot of us grew up with, but it’s not there for spectacle alone. Violence exists because evil is real, and because serious conflicts have consequences.

When villains conquer and destroy worlds, fight heroes — or even turn on each other — it’s meant to show that power without morality destroys itself.

Just like in Scripture, battles aren’t just physical. They’re spiritual, emotional, and moral. Violence is a result of the brokenness in the world, not a celebration of it. This is why the threats in the comic are real.

The villains and monsters aren’t jokes. They aren’t easily defeated and sometimes they don’t even go down in a clean or satisfying way. Because in real life, evil rarely does. And this type of scale is not usually something that is expected to take place in a comic that exists in a Christian universe.

Heavy Topics Belong in Stories — Especially Christian-Based Ones

Zero Hour Epsilon Force touches on various topics such as:

• Racism and historical injustice

• Family problems

• Cancer and illness

• Mental health and grief

• Corruption within institutions

• Sin, not as an abstract concept, but as something that actively harms people

These themes aren’t added to be edgy or political. They’re added because they’re human. Faith often gets tested in many different ways and people don't always deal with just one thing at a time. So the characters in the comic deal with different kinds of brokenness as they grow to mirror what real life is actually like.

Christian-based storytelling doesn’t lose its faith by acknowledging suffering or conflict. It loses its credibility when it pretends suffering and conflict doesn’t exist. Jesus didn’t enter a world of mild inconvenience — He entered a world of oppression, sickness, violence, and death. Ignoring those realities would make a Christian-based story feel hollow.

Not Every Issue Has the Same Tone — And That’s on Purpose

Some issues in the comic series are slower and more dialogue-heavy. Others are fast, action-driven, and intense. That contrast is intentional. Just like real life, not every moment is a battle — but battles feel heavier when you understand what’s at stake.

Slower issues build the emotional weight. Faster ones release it. That structure allows the violence and action to mean something, instead of becoming noise.

A Raw Teen-and-Up Story, Not a Sanitized Young Children’s Lesson

Though the series looks like a Saturday morning cartoon, the main OG comic isn’t meant for small children — and it’s not trying to be. It’s closer in spirit to the kinds of stories many of us grew up with: action-heavy worlds where the characters wrestled with morality and endured responsibility and sacrifice. Stories that trusted the audience to think.

The goal isn’t to shock. The goal is to respect the reader enough to be honest.

Why this Kind of Comic Matters

There are people who love faith, but feel disconnected from overly polished Christian media. There are people who love action and sci-fi, but feel those stories lack meaning. And there are people who live with pain — cancer, grief, injustice — who rarely see that reflected honestly in faith-based stories. This series exists for the overlap.

It's not about being “liberal” or “conservative”. Prophets like Elijah and Jeremiah didn't serve the left or right. They spoke for God.

It’s not about being “safe” or “gentle.” The Bible is full of brutal battles like when David cut Goliath's head off or when Samson slayed 1,000 Philistines with a donkey's jawbone.

It’s about telling the truth — even when that truth is uncomfortable — and still believing redemption is possible. It's action like the 90's Saturday morning cartoons on the surface, with real struggles underneath.

That’s the kind of story that Spidercade Studios tells. If that sounds uncomfortable or different, you can purchase the comic series at our online store here.