Matter Anti-Matter

If you’ve been following the fallout from Ed Brubaker’s Captain America Issue #602, then you’ve watched the relevance of Marvel go from this:

to this:

Marvel Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada’s explanation and apology for the accidental representation of a real protest group may as well have ended with “and then my dog ate the final proof”:

The book was getting ready to go to the printer, it was on fire already from a deadline standpoint, but the editor on the book noticed that there was a small art correct that needed to get done. On the first page featuring the protestors, the artist on the book drew slogans into the protest signs to give them a sense of reality and to set up the scene. On the following page featuring the protestors again, there were signs, but nothing written in them. From a continuity standpoint, this omission stood out like a sore thumb, but was easily fixable. So, just before the book went to the printer, the editor asked the letterer on the book to just fudge in some quick signs. The letterer in his rush to get the book out of the door but wanting to keep the signs believable, looked on the net and started pulling slogans from actual signs.

Because if there’s one thing comics should NEVER do, it’s reflect and comment upon the world we live in.  That would be so painfully relevant.

See more alternate universe Captain American protests here and find out why Captain America hates America here.