American people don't tend to do very well when speaking out on the subject of Israel and Palestine. The discourse tends to be, shall we say, les than nuanced. I always think about this post-9/11 comic called
411. Then-Marvel head honcho Bill Jemas obviously had high ambitions for this comic that allegedly focused on nonviolence. Why else with would the first issue have an essay from Arun Manilal Gandhi? But then the first story is "Blow Up" by writer Chuck Austin and artist Phil Winslade.
In "Blow Up," an Israeli fighter pilot loses his daughter to a suicide bomber and reacts by flying over Palestine and dropping flyers that say, "You Killed My
Daughter - I Could Have Killed Yours."
A story in a peace anthology
comic ending on a threat?
Little wonder this issue never made it past issue #2.
"We must stop now, before you know my pain." Yikes.
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