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Friday, September 24, 2004
Superheroes
The Boston Globe reports on a peculiar attempt to use "superheroes as role models for people in the Middle East, presenting the West with a more positive image of the region." Hey AK Comics, here's a tip. If you want to change my impression of the Egyptian media as a festering pit of vicious anti-semitism unseen since 1930s Germany you might reconsider casting your villains as the "Army of Zios".
Cross-posted to Ghost of a flea.
Posted by Ghost of a flea on September 24, 2004 | Permalink
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Good idea. On the other hand, my childhood reading of the Tom Swift, Jr., books exposed me to several gangs of villains whose identities were thinly veiled. I don't think the rather stereotyped portrayals of Rotzog and the Brungarians made me oppose the Warsaw Pact any more vehemently; neither did the nefarious Ordep make me hate Hispanics. Children can disregard all sorts of nonsense.
Posted by: Charles MacDonald | 2004-09-24 9:36:18 AM
Good idea. On the other hand, my childhood reading of the Tom Swift, Jr., books exposed me to several gangs of villains whose identities were thinly veiled. I don't think the rather stereotyped portrayals of Rotzog and the Brungarians made me oppose the Warsaw Pact any more vehemently; neither did the nefarious Ordep make me hate Hispanics. Children can disregard all sorts of nonsense.
Posted by: Charles MacDonald | 2004-09-24 9:39:11 AM
My blood still boils at mention of Brungarian perfidy!
Posted by: Ghost of a flea | 2004-09-24 11:56:43 AM
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