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08-11-2010, 02:56 PM
oliverbox
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Issue 157 was shocking and appalling, in my opinion.
*Spoiler*
Snake-Eyes, Scarlet, and Duke are on the run somewhere in the Southwestern U.S. Cobra is running the boarder patrol, and a group of "concerned citizens" are armed and trying to turn in a group of "illegal immigrants". Snake-Eyes is appalled by this, so he convinces Duke to put a stop to it.
The "concerned citizens" are American citizens. They are armed, but they seem to be enforcing the law. Snake-Eyes and Duke kill them. They slaughter them. It turns out that the "illegal immigrants" were actually Americans of Mexican descent, but they weren't being injured by the "concerned citizens".
Bottom Line: Snake-Eyes and Duke slaughtered a group of conservative Americans because they disagreed with the immigration law.
I'm outraged. I've lost ALL respect for Larry Hama. He has written my childhood heroes as murdering radicals with a Liberal Agenda... what's next, Tunnel Rat bombing the local NRA chapter? How about Roadblock gunning down a bunch of Pro-Life protesters. Maye be Low-Light could lay out in the desert and shoot any boarder patrol officers who are getting too close to illegal immigrants as they're crossing the boarder? Maybe Recondo could do some work helping the Columbian Drug Cartels because they're funding the rebels?
It's ridiculous.
On the flip side, and to be fair, I wouldn't want the Joes pursuing a conservative agenda either. It would be equally outrageous for the Joes to bomb an abortion clinic, or to destroy a local chapter of the ACLU.
The Joes should be Non-Political. They should just do their missions, and fight Cobra. I don't need a comicbook to tell me what I should think about politics. Everyone always says that Larry Hama is such a smart guy; HE WRITES COMICBOOKS!!! He's not a lawyer, or a Political Scientist, or a Clergyman, or ANYTHING ELSE! The guy has spent his adult life writing about costumed superheroes in a fantasy world. Who gives a crap what he thinks about politics?!!!
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And would it kill Hasbro to give us a Marine Corps Officer?
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