12.11.14

The Two-Hundred-Thirteenth Greatest Panel in the History of Comics


This is a weird trend I've noticed reading a lot of WW2 comics - I've seen a bunch of examples of heroes fighting Nazis in Europe who, at a certain point, get transferred over to battling the Japs in the Pacific, since that's more marketable.

I understand why this happened, but the implied racial politics make me deeply uncomfortable.

1 comment:

busterggi said...

Its always felt odd to me as well as you'd have thought the US public would have had more anger towards the Japanese. My guess is a combination of politics & the embodiment of Hitler as a supervillain more than any single representative of Japan.