The research aimed at knowing the meaning behind the symbols and messages, both the signifier and the signified which in the end could reveal the meta-language meaning. This research used Semiology approach to analyze the images inside the panels of the comic book of Ardian Syaf's the 'X-Men Gold vol.1: Back to the Basics. The qualitative method of Semiology could successfully explain the media phenomena. The approach was mostly leaned on Barthes' work on new Semiology doctrine which enables

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... researchers to figure out and prove that the non-verbal communication could have a wide interpretation of some significance meanings. The result of the study indicates that (1) all of the messages are related to the 212 event and Al-Maidah 51, (2) the messages portray the relation between Moslems, Jews, and Christians in the artist's perspective; and (3) all of the messages, thoughthey have a bigger agenda, are related to one character, Kitty Pryde.