Comments on: The Fifth Color – When Politics Attack! http://blog.newsarama.com/2008/11/05/the-fifth-color-when-politics-attack/ The Blog@ Team and prominent comics personalities share what’s on their minds. Thu, 23 May 2013 16:06:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Shaun http://blog.newsarama.com/2008/11/05/the-fifth-color-when-politics-attack/comment-page-1/#comment-452333 Shaun Wed, 05 Nov 2008 18:18:40 +0000 http://blog.newsarama.com/?p=9937#comment-452333 Actually, with this in mind, Marvel did bring 9/11 into their books, and the (thankfully) so-to-be-ex-President Bush showed up in one of the early issues of Avengers: The Initiative, didn't he? I understand Marvel wanting to do something to honor the people who gave their lives on 9/11, with NYC and Marvel so intertwined and all, but I always thought they needed to find a different way to do it (No, I'm not sure what that would've been)... I always felt like Marvel's brushes with the real world may have trivialized the real world events they've portrayed, no matter how well they meant. I'm just glad nothing seems to have happened with DC's/Frank Miller's "Batman: Holy Terror!" announced a few years ago. That really seemed in poor taste to me. Hopefully it's been swept under the rug. Actually, with this in mind, Marvel did bring 9/11 into their books, and the (thankfully) so-to-be-ex-President Bush showed up in one of the early issues of Avengers: The Initiative, didn’t he?

I understand Marvel wanting to do something to honor the people who gave their lives on 9/11, with NYC and Marvel so intertwined and all, but I always thought they needed to find a different way to do it (No, I’m not sure what that would’ve been)… I always felt like Marvel’s brushes with the real world may have trivialized the real world events they’ve portrayed, no matter how well they meant.

I’m just glad nothing seems to have happened with DC’s/Frank Miller’s “Batman: Holy Terror!” announced a few years ago. That really seemed in poor taste to me. Hopefully it’s been swept under the rug.

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