Remix

Hey guys! Here is a remix of the Batman comic that'll help add insight to our groups topic.

The Year is 2049. Japan beat the U.S. in World War 5. Japan's comic industry left the propaganda trend and resettled into regular comic distribution. Japan’s first comic issue of the Japanese version of Batman is released. Here is a part of it.

Batman: There he is. The dirty white guy with the suit. The tall one.

Robin: From what I can tell, he has some secret documents. Is he a spy?

Batman: Seems like it. Look at him. All ugly and thinks he acts like he owns these streets.

Robin: I know. Damn fat Americans. They are a dirty type of people. Its no wonder they lost. They are getting desperate.

Batman: Yeah. Anything else you see?

Robin: He’s armed with a Taser and is wearing a bulletproof vest. Should we take him?

Batman: Yeah. For Japan.

Robin: Yeah, let’s get his ass.

See? As you can see, during World War 2, American propaganda made the Japanese look subhuman and it was okay. This carried on into later comics. The use of colors and descriptions made the Japanese people look subhuman and evil. In this imagined Japanese perspective, the U.S. is subhuman. They are viewed as fat, ugly, and desperate. Because the imagined war is over, they are using what they used for war propaganda into  regular comics. By bringing in another perspective of racism in comics, we can see the justification of racism in comics.