Sunday, December 18, 2022

The Eight Nights of Comic Book Hanukkah, Night One: Hanukkah Sameach!


"Never Again" from Merry X-Men Holiday Special #1 one-shot (Marvel, February 2019), script by Chris Claremont, pencils and inks by Terry Dodson and Rachel Dodson, colors by Chris Sotomayor, letters by Travis Lanham

3 comments:

Blam said...

They couldn’t even spell “baruch” right?!?

Bully said...

i didn't know that! I have corrected it Photoshoppically to avoid embarrassing Kitty.

Did they also cut short the blessing? Online, I see it's "Baruch atah Adonai, Eloheinu melech ha-olam, borei p'ri hagafen."

Blam said...

Given that it’s translated per that asterisked editorial note, I guess they technically repeated the opening (Hebrew, then English) rather than cut it short. What you quote is the blessing for wine, not lighting the candles as in the panel, which is “Baruch atah Adonai, Eloheinu melech ha-olam, asher kidishanu b’mitzvotav, v’tzivanu l’chadlik ner shel Chanukah.”