There is now a trend of American comic book icons being de-Americanized in order to make them more palatable to a foreign — even anti-American — audience.  In some foreign markets, Marvel studios is leaving the name “Captain America” off of the title of the upcoming film starring the patriotic superhero, and even the director of the film has made comments designed to placate non-American audiences.  The left was also pleased when Batman recruited a Muslim as his French counterpart, in a storyline that ignores the very reason we even began talking about Islam on a large scale, 9/11.  Superman was created and published by Americans. He crash-landed in America, was raised by Americans, lives in America, works in America, is married to an American. But D.C. Comics has just made him renounce his U.S. Citizenship.

Read my other post today at:

http://blog.beliefnet.com/watchwomanonthewall/?p=108

Read the full story of The Post-American Superhero? at:

http://www.newsrealblog.com/2011/04/29/the-post-american-superhero/

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