Marvel switching ‘King Conan’ character after indigenous community backlash
nypost.comMarvel Comics got flack recently for the name and design of a character seen in the book miniseries “King Conan.”The comic empire released the third part of the series on Feb.
16 and received hate over the portrayal of a certain figure that was reminiscent of a Native American woman stereotype.The character was a skimpily-dressed princess named Matoaka, who looked similar to Pocahontas. (In real life, Pocahontas’ real name was Amonute, and she also had the more private moniker Matoaka, according to a 2017 article in Smithsonian magazine.) The comic, written by Jason Aaron and drawn by Mahmud Asrar and Matthew Wilson, describes her as coming from a “land of plenty, farther west across the many waters, where her people lived in great numbers, in grand cities built to the sun gods.”Members of the indigenous community blasted the comic for being hypersexualized and perpetuating stereotypes of the historical figure.Hey @Marvel and @jasonaaron, did it ever occur to you that using the name of an actual victim of colonial violence (the kind that is still being perpetuated today against Indigenous Americans) for your male power fantasy comic was insensitive, distasteful, and deeply offensive?
https://t.co/1kBnVM5ZcTOne reader tweeted their thoughts about the comic, calling it “disgusting.”“Disgusted isn’t even close to a word for it,” they wrote. “How??
how is this okay?? she was a REAL LITTLE GIRL — to do this her, to us, over and over again… i am just at a loss. disgusting.
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