NYTimes Continues to Cover Superhero Comics Unironically
Author: AF Duncan
February 20th, 2006
This time, it’s about Marvel’s Civil War mini-series:
Embedded reporters on the front lines of war. The search for weapons of mass destruction. An attack on civil liberties. Sounds like a job for … Spider-Man?
America’s current real-world political issues will wind themselves into the lives of the heroes of Marvel Comics in “Civil War,” a seven-issue limited monthly series set to begin in May. In the series, the beliefs of many well-known Marvel characters, including Captain America, the Fantastic Four, Iron Man and Spider-Man, will be challenged.
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