Looks Like I Was WrongA
few weeks ago, I wrote about a new Marvel comic book that was being published to say thank you to our troops. I expressed some skepticism about the project, given that Marvel has done some fairly leftist storylines in the recent past.
However, I have now read the comic and I have to admit they played it relatively straight. I was a little disappointed that the "We support the troops" message was nowhere in the actual story or art. A couple soldiers do appear early in the story, but they're mostly there to ask questions so that Reed Richards can look superintelligent.
The plot does have one rather oddball aspect that could be construed as anti-military. The story is that a spaceship has been found that had crashed millenia ago in the tropics, and the Fantastic Four and the Avengers (and Spiderman and Wolverine) are opening it up to see what's inside. The occupants emerge and begin attacking them immediately.
Reed: "The blue skin and iconography leads (sic) me to believe this might be Kree."
Captain America: "I was thinking the same thing. The warrior attitude."
Then again, later on Iron Man says, "We are warriors, like you, for the human race."
Overall, not a terrific comic (the ending is particularly dull). But at least they left out the anti-American, anti-military crap they've put in some other books.
