{"id":5084983,"date":"2016-02-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctlatinonews.com\/as-marvel-ceo-donates-to-trump-its-team-works-on-diversifying-superheroes\/"},"modified":"2016-02-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T05:00:00","slug":"as-marvel-ceo-donates-to-trump-its-team-works-on-diversifying-superheroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latinonewsnetwork.com\/ctln\/2016\/02\/03\/as-marvel-ceo-donates-to-trump-its-team-works-on-diversifying-superheroes\/","title":{"rendered":"As Marvel CEO Donates To Trump, Its Team Works On Diversifying Superheroes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, news broke that Marvel CEO Isaac Perlmutter \u2013 who immigrated from Israel to the United States after serving in the 1967 Six Day War \u2013 donated $1 million to the campaign of the xenophobic, vitriolic Donald Trump. Since then, he\u2019s been lambasted for his contribution,\u00a0according to <em><a href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/2016\/biz\/news\/marvel-trump-ike-perlmutter-donation-1201692438\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc\">Variety<\/span><\/a>.<\/em>\u00a0But despite the fact that Perlmutter has thrown his support behind a man intent on bringing down the Latino community, Marvel Comics continues to slowly but surely move in the right direction \u2013\u00a0diversifying its characters and storylines to better represent the makeup of the U.S.<br \/>\nSince 2000, Marvel Comics has been headed by Editor-in-Chief Axel Alonso, whose father is Mexican. Under his purview, Marvel\u00a0introduced Afro-Latino Spider-Man <a href=\"http:\/\/remezcla.com\/remezcla\/new-spider-man-more-latino-than-usual\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc\">Miles Morales<\/span><\/a>\u00a0in 2011. And this week, Marvel Comics is releasing an issue that looks to\u00a0the Ta\u00edno culture of Puerto Rico. The artist behind the issue is\u00a0Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez, who worked to push his Puerto Rican culture to the forefront, just as he\u2019s done in the past.<br \/>\n&#8220;So many stories are told that do not authentically represent us Latinos,&#8221; he said. That\u2019s why when the Darryl Makes Comics Editor-in-chief was tapped to work on his first issue for Marvel Comics, he saw an opportunity to connect it to\u00a0his roots. The end result, co-created with Darryl &#8220;DMC&#8221; McDaniels (of Run DMC), is\u00a0<em>Guardians of Infinity #3, <\/em>an issue that\u00a0imagines a conflict between characters Thing, a.k.a Benjamin Grimm, and Groot.<br \/>\nWhile McDaniels infused Thing with his own personality, Miranda-Rodriguez studied the alien, tree-like Groot and found similarities between the character and the ceiba trees from his Puerto Rican childhood. &#8220;As an adolescent, I lived [in Puerto Rico],&#8221; he told <em>Remezcla<\/em>. &#8220;The town is named after the ceiba tree. In the center of the island is the Parque de la Ceiba in Ponce, Puerto Rico, where a\u00a0500-year-old ceiba tree grows to this day\u2026 The ceiba tree holds cultural significance throughout Latin America, West Africa and Southeast Asia.&#8221;<br \/>\n<em>To read full article: http:\/\/remezcla.com\/features\/marvel-taino-storyline\/?utm_content=bufferc8396&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=facebook.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, news broke that Marvel CEO Isaac Perlmutter \u2013 who immigrated from Israel to the United States after serving 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