Here's one for all you propaganda collectors

[lebkuchen]

The product of Bush's latest vacation, a comic. How apropo.

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Marvel Comics unveiled a custom comic book Thursday at the Pentagon that will be distributed free in May to U.S. forces in Iraq and around the world.

Featuring the New Avengers and the Fantastic Four, the comic will have a mammoth print run of 1 million copies. The first 150,000 will go to soldiers in the Middle East.

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This latest effort .....is in partnership with “America Supports You,” a Defense Department campaign that encourages private citizens, communities and businesses to reach out to troops and their families.

The comics will be available free at military exchanges.

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Marvel heroes encounter an alien army after an American soldier finds a spacecraft in the Louisiana bayou. This is the only appearance of the military; ....

Oddly, Reed Richards, before he transforms into Mr. Fantastic, wears an AAFES logo on his overcoat.





http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=28748

[solinvictus]

1. Wolverine wouldn't salute anyone..

he's something of an anarchist. What does AAFES stand for? In the old days, at least, Reed Richards and Ben Grimm were WW2 veterans.

[lebkuchen]

2. Army and Air Force Exchange Service

which runs the BX/PXs and gas stations, among other services. It's headquartered in Dallas.

[solinvictus]

4. Wow!

So now Reed's up the ass of the military/industrial complex. I liked him better as a WW2 Army Air Corps veteran, but that would make him at least in his eighties now. I've never reconciled the way most comic characters have defied aging. At least DC let most of their Golden Age heroes die off.

[Midnight Rambler]

6. Wolverine is Canadian anyway

And you know Professor X would be insanely against the war

[Corgigal]

3. Yeah

this will make them feel sooooo much better being stationed away from their family. Not to mention the dread of being blown up by some bomb that took 3 lives just yesterday.

Whatever. I think they rather get papers that say return home.

[lebkuchen]

7. Think they'll make the connection that THEY are the alien army

in a foreign land and the Iraqi partisans are the Super Heroes?

[AmericanErrorist]

5. Got a copy here in Grand Forks AFB

I question how our troops are served by a comic book of questionable entertainment value.

[lebkuchen]

8. The way I see it

the comic provides a fast-track into Bush's fantasy world.

[Why Syzygy]

9. WTF?

Marvel Comics unveiled a custom comic book Thursday at the Pentagon that will be distributed free in May to U.S. forces in Iraq and around the world.

Does it strike anyone else as 'strange' (funny/hilarious/absurd/telling the times) that Marvel COMICS is unveiling at the PENTAGON?

Super heroes running the world? omg I think this is testosterone gone wild.