Well, that will pretty much do it for Marvel Comics from here on in. They can't keep their liberal ideas out of the comics then DC will gladly all of my future comics money. This charge that all Tea Party protesters are racist is simply beyond the pale:
Issue 602 of the comic features Captain America investigating a right-wing anti-government militia group called "the Watchdogs". Hoping to infiltrate the group, Captain America and his African-American sidekick The Falcon observe an anti-tax protest from a rooftop. The protestors depicted are all white and carry signs adorned with slogans almost identical to those seen today in Tea Party rallies like "tea bag libs before they tea bag you" and "stop the socialists."
The Falcon mentions that the gathering appears to be "some kind of anti-tax protest" and notes that "this whole 'hate the government' vibe isn't limited to the Watchdogs." He then tells Captain America that he doesn't think their plan will work because "I don't exactly see a black man from Harlem fitting in with a bunch of angry white folks." Captain America then explains that his plan entails sending The Falcon in among the group posing as an IRS agent under the thinking that a black government official will most certainly spark their anger.
Until they fire Joe Quesada the Marvel Comics editor-in-chief I have bought my last Marvel book. His sad-assed mea culpa is a joke:
Quesada then went on to say that Marvel would "apologize for and own up to" a series of "stupid mistakes" that led to them "accidentally identifying" one of the members of the protest group "as being a part of the Tea Party instead of a generic protest group." He explained that they were on deadline to get the issue to the printer for publication, and in the course of sending it off it was noticed that the signs in the scene contained no words or phrases. He said the editor then asked the letterer to "fudge in some quick signs" and that in the "rush to get the book out of the door," the letterer "looked on the net and started pulling slogans" from signs captured in photographs at Tea Party protests in order to make them appear "believable."
They were rushing so they "fudged some quick signs" that accidentally slandered the Tea Party movement as a bunch of racists. They could have written just about anything they wanted on those signs but chose to put Tea Party slogans on it.
It then had to have been checked by Quesada before it was passed to the printer so he can't say it was the letterers fault. Instead of a quick call to change that sign to something else and then 5 minutes with PhotoShop Quesada passed it through. His far-left liberal views get old fast and there really isn't a reason to read a Marvel book until he is out on his ass.
No comments:
Post a Comment