Indonesian artist Ardian Syaf drew some subtle insults to Christians and Jews in his renderings for X-Men Gold #1 comic. Marvel has taken the magazine off the shelves and will re release the comic once the offending pictures are removed. It could not have come at a worse time for Marvel who have seen a huge drop off in readership after reworking their super heroes to make them gay and lesbian changing the races of the heroes, even the ones that have been around for decades.
In one scene in the book, Jewish X-Men character Kitty Pryde is seen talking to a crowd, with the ‘Jew’ part of the word ‘jewelry’ over her head, and the numbers 212 and 51 in the background.
The number 212 is often used as a reference to the Muslim…