10 Comics That Told Inspiring Mental Health Stories
4. Sentry: Man Of Two Worlds
Robert Reynolds has spent his life trying to balance being the heroic Sentry and the villainous Void. Both personalities developed after Reynolds ingested a more powerful version of the serum that gave Captain America his powers.
In Jeff Lemire's Man Of Two Worlds, Reynolds is struggling to cope with a severe form of superhero addiction. Every day he spends time in a device called The Confluctor, which houses the Sentry and Void personalities. In the real world, Reynolds works a dead-end job and daydreams about his time as Sentry.
After The Confluctor is stolen, Bob becomes Sentry again and has to fight against his former sidekick Scout. To defeat Scout, Bob merges his two halves together into something completely new. Feeling whole for the first time, Sentry leaves the Avengers guessing as to what kind of person he’ll become in the future.
Man Of Two Worlds is worth reading because it shows the complexity of mental health. Sometimes, the only way to find peace is to accept the bad parts of ourselves and find a way to make it work.