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DC Comics released covers for some books to honor Hispanic Heritage
Month, but the ham-fisted effort backfired on the company very quickly.

Twitter users began complaining that the Hispanic Heritage covers appeared
to simply show some superheroes with Hispanic foods like tacos and tamales.

"DC Comics really said Hispanic heritage means putting tacos in their
characters hands and that's it. This is just weird all around," responded one
critic.

".@DCComics wants you to know Mexican superheroes go around doing 'hero
things' while carrying a bag of tamales," tweeted another critic.

"What the actual ******* @DCComics how incredibly insulting. My culture is
more than freaken tacos and being a server. #racist," replied another
detractor.

The covers showed the Green Lantern character with a bag of tamales
floating out into space, another character grabbing plates from a fried
plantain shop, and Blue Beetle jumping on rooftops in the city with more
Hispanic food.

It gets worse ...
The furor worsened when one of the creators involved said that DC Comics
appeared to have edited his contribution in order to add tamales. Jorge
Molina said that he drew up the image as an homage to Jorge Gonzalez
Camarena, a respected Mexican muralist.

"Due to some legal issues, this cover was not suppose to see the light of day
(it’s unfinished, you’ll notice both the Mexican flag in incomplete and GL
chest logo is missing)," he explained. "How this image got promoted by DC is
a mystery to me, don’t know if it was a mistake or in the end they decided
to go for it."

The adapted cover that was published by DC Comics replaced the lantern in
the character's hand and added a bag full of tamales.



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