Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Comic Parody of Republicans

http://www.newsarama.com/comics/boom-conservative-controversy-repuglicans-100215.html

This article deals with the supposed Captain America tea bagging controversy that was mentioned on fox, and apologized for by Marvel/Disney Editor-in-chief Joe Quesada, who is a Republican in political belief. The main point of the article though is the satire that will be seen in the Repuglicans comic book. It is pure parody for profit, with Fox commentators being zombies. Does it present false light issues, a reasonable person would say no. Is appropriation an issue, maybe, but the comic has yet to come out and Mad Magazine has never had a problem in recent years mocking public figures. Will people be offended, as with anything the answer is yes, because someone somewhere always gets upset over something.

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