August 6, 2009 

Equal Opportunity Offenders.

In case people think it was just Fox’s depictions of Africans that were racist… check out their Arabs:

Arab Men – caricatures. Arab women? Half-naked Anglicized pin-ups.

I’m starting to see why Wertham had a bug-bear for this book.


  • Dierna

    Dear whoever was the artist of this here comic,

    THERE ARE NO REDHEADED ARABS!!!!

  • Dr. Novakaine

    I still don't get why women are off-limits even when [i]they're carrying a freaking knife.[/i]

    You'd think the villains would catch on at some point that they could be a lot more successful if they just used women as their proxies, doing all the dirty work while the hero just stood by helplessly, paralyzed by a social more that apparently extends to any conceivable situation.

  • Shiai

    You know, when faced with a conundrum, I also often preface my thoughts to myself with “AIEE!”

  • Megalon

    Between the exaggerated racial caricatures for all the men and the white guy hero who's stronger and smarter and prettier than all the ethnic guys and the nearly naked women who all look virtually identical (and strangely white even when they aren't supposed to be) I'd say the guy who made this had some issues. It's kinda creeping me out.

  • HellRazor

    This is blatant racism! How dare they paint such stereotypical caricatures.

    I'm sick and tired of how these old comics stereotype white males as muscle-bound half-naked jungle men wearing loinclothes and screaming “AIEE!” and “HIIIIIII…!” all the time. And some of us have even been known to get into knife fights with sexy naked women too.

    AIEEEE I'm glad we live in more enlightened times!

  • HellRazor

    Except for Basheera Ball, Luci's half-arabian sister.

  • Charlene

    There are actually natural redheads in northern Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Iraq, Iran, and Pakistan. Some villages in Pakistan have more redheads per capita than Western Ireland – almost 20%. I've been there and seen them with my own eyes.

    Basically follow Alexander the Great's march – wherever he went, there are redheads.

  • http://sezaarsez.wordpress.com/ sezaar

    Finally someone says it like it is!

  • http://www.myspace.com/thischarmingoscar Rorschach

    Besides: The rightful owners of Tarzan should take a close look at Jo-Jo.

    Hell, you couldn't print something like that today!

  • madwoman

    Thank you, Charlene, for pointing that out so I could avoid doing it.

    Since when is defending yourself against a knife-wielding, half-naked, psychotic, evidently lesbian sister of a slave trader killing her in cold blood? Aiee!

    And, what, exactly is the sport Bashera plans to have with the women? Are they going to play cricket? Maybe basketball? Does this turn into a porn comic on the next page? Hllll, please, somebody give me the answer!

  • Anderson

    “Since when is defending yourself against a knife-wielding, half-naked, psychotic, evidently lesbian sister of a slave trader killing her in cold blood? Aiee!”

    Well, she´s still a woman after all, and she should be in the kitchen making Jo Jo a burek and sfihas.

  • Lemur

    'Yet there must be a way…' 'Can I pleasure her to death? Kill her in hot blood? Point out the absurdity of her being dressed like a harem girl in the middle of a fake oasis and embarass her to death? And what is this 'try your steel on my throat'? Is she into bondage games? What Is this 'sport with women' she has in mind? Does it involve strap-ons? Should I be paying more attention to the arabs casually walking up behind me with the rifle butts? Aieeeeee. I'm so confused.'

  • Naryldor

    Is that a Malaysian Kris blade what she's wielding? In Congo? Unlikely to say the least, even if it's in that veeeeery especial place in Congo where the sand wash against the jungle and blah, blah, blah.

    And what size of bra does she use?? She's got a broader chest than Jo-Jo!

  • michaeltm

    What does Basheera's having sport with the ladies have to do with her compatriots not striking Jo-Jo anymore? Was she planning on offering him as a prize and didn't want him broken?

  • http://sezaarsez.wordpress.com/ sezaar

    Why we are all looking at the obvious faults, no-one mentioned that Jojo switched the way he holds his blade no less than three times in the three panels and even changing hands!

    The arabs in the last panel suddenly switched places as well or they somehow merged with one another, while basheera is letting go of her knife (either that or she really knows how to defy yhe laws of gravity).

    And I just love the fighting in the back!

  • Naryldor

    And don't even get me started on Ali's pityful swordman skills, I mean come on! A scimitar vs. a tiny dagger and he was vanquished in just about 10 seconds?

    I really don't know which fihgting in the back is more hilarious, the one in the first panel where the palm trees seem to be staring down like “WTF?”, or the one in the fith with everybody ramdomly smiting each other amidst a cloud of sand.

  • HellRazor

    In the congo, they call him JoJo the Mighty Blade Juggling Jungle Man.

  • HellRazor

    In the congo, they call him JoJo the Mighty Blade Juggling Jungle Man.rn

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