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Saturday, January 05, 2008 

Marvel still has more badness on the way

As if their recent efforts in wrecking Spider-Man's marriage weren't enough, now Marvel is going to team up with the United Nations to produce a comic book where the idea is to try and rid the world of "conflict and disease". And the Financial Times says here that:
Although the UN did not come up with the initiative, the measure could help revive the body’s troubled image in the US, where relations have been strained, in particular during US President George W. Bush’s administration.
But of course, they don't tell why their image has been so damaged. It's because of, for example, their involvement in the Oil-for-Food scandal, which even former director Kofi Annan profited from. And there's also the notorious case of UN officials in Congo who committed sex crimes. With horrible details like those to their record, I can't say that even this will help pep up their image much.

Be on the lookout for if this propaganda turns up at your child's school. They deserve much better than to read a book where Spider-Man and other Marvel heroes are turned into literal political mouthpieces for an organization as bad as the UN happens to be.

Maybe one day the building can be turned into a center for promoting true democratic values instead.

Update: oh no. According to this article in the Guardian, even Iron Man is going to be forced to propagandize for the UN. Well, it figures that if Web-Head could be victimized, even Shell-Head could be too.

More on this from Hot Air, Soccerdad, Ed Driscoll and Blue Crab Boulevard.

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