Fan outrage kills Marvel's deal to promote real-world arms-dealers in Avengers comics
by Cory Doctorow from on (#34FYE)
On Saturday at New York Comic-Con, Marvel was scheduled to do a splashy launch event announcing the crossover between the Avengers and Northrop Grumman, a notorious arms dealer whose stealth bombers and drones have been front and center in the US campaigns of assassination in many theaters of war, declared and undeclared, in which literally uncounted civilians have been collateral damage. (more")