A protest depicted in Captain America #602 has drawn the ire of Tea Party groups, resulting in an apology from Marvel editor-in-chief Joe Quesada. Quesada’s apology was for a sign, drawn into the protest panel at the last minute by a letterer, with the slogan, “Tea Bag the Libs Before They Tea Bag YOU!” Quesada said that the letterer filled in the sign with a slogan from an actual sign held at a protest he found on the Web. The problem was that the protest in the story wasn’t supposed to have anything to do with the Tea Party movement, according to Quesada. The mistake should have been caught by the editorial group but was not. The art has been scrubbed so that any future printings of the story will not include the sign. The story caused a reaction that Fox News described as “a chorus of critics who noticed the apparent jab at the Tea Party movement and who accused Marvel of making supervillains out of patriotic Americans.” Which goes to show small minded people with idiot ideas and racist leanings sometime read comics too.
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