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In the 10th issue of Marvel's Champions title, Mark Waid and Humberto Ramos have brewed up more degrading propaganda, apparently as part of the Secret Empire crossover, and the resulting story even insults the groups they're supposedly favoring:

Champions #10, out now from Marvel, features a story where the remaining members of the team, Spider-Man (Miles Morales), Totally Awesome Hulk and Viv Vision, try to find their missing team mate, Inhuman member Ms. Marvel, in the United States of Hydramerica.

This is because, of course, Inhumans are being rounded up and placed in internment camps by the definitely not Nazis Hydra and HydraCap.

It's not too difficult to guess Hydra, in this tale, serves as their stand-in for right-wingers. And here's the bizarre part:

Champions, by Mark Waid and Humberto Ramos, decides to follow the story that many of the Inhumans do not want to escape the camp. They do not wish to live their lives on the run in a Hydramerica that would hunt them down, and those that wish to remain fear should some escape, then they would face reprisals from their fascist prison masters.

In fact, in this page we see here that one Inhuman who we see throughout the issue explain this to the team, and in fact says that within the camp at least they are well cared for.

Which is a bit odd seen as at the beginning of the issue she witnesses one of the robot guards incinerate two teen Inhumans on the spot for merely discussing the possibility of escape.

The story sounds like 2 sides of the same coin. On the one hand, Secret Empire is more or less another in Marvel's list of stridently anti-conservative metaphors. On the other hand, they abuse the characters who're meant to serve as their idea for what the goodies should be like. Here's a few panels from the pages of the crossover that I found:
There's a few more panels at the link. I think the 2nd of these pictures comes from the Steve Rogers-as-Hydra-agent title, and overall, what they're doing here is utter abuse of the Inhumans. And they said earlier they wanted to promote the Inhumans as a substitute for X-Men, because the upper management didn't want them creating any new characters? Gee whiz. No matter how you look at this, their current propaganda won't help the Inhumans get anywhere.

It's clear Waid's run out of ideas and talent, and he'd be better off retiring just like Chris Claremont may have done. And as anybody who's a realist is aware, there's little chance Marvel will cease with the anti-conservative tactics even after this whole mess has run its course.

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