Thursday, April 28, 2011

Nativist Alert!

I know nothing of Goyer, but any right-thinking, multi-culturalist should denounce this development in the Superman story with bongos and giant puppets at the very least:

Goyer’s installment, with tense art from Miguel Sepulveda, steals the spotlight in Action Comics No. 900. When Superman drops in on an Iranian protest to stand with demonstrators in an act of nonviolent civil disobedience, the U.S. government takes him to task for acting as an instrument of national policy. Superman responds by renouncing his American citizenship and proclaiming himself a citizen of the universe.

Clearly we have a xenophobe here, clinging to something or other. What's Goyer trying to say? That immigrants can't be trusted? Even immigrants apparently assimilated and committed to the American way?

I'm shocked and outraged.