Comic Post

When looking at this comic cover, i noticed that it was clearly an angry Japanese villain who appears to be a scientist, overpowering Americans. Some of the obvious things that i noticed right off the bat were the physical characteristics of the main image. Some of these characteristics are the shape of the eyes, they are slim and slanted, also the color of the skin, and the large smile on the mans face. Japanese are people who are stereotypically known to be always smiling and have large teeth, which this man has in the picture. Japanese are also known to be extremely intelligent people. The microscope of the man gives the impression of intelligence. There are also American people in this image, however they are small and seem to be afraid of the Japanese. This could possibly symbolize the Americans fear of what the Japanese were capable of doing back during this time period. This intelligence was enough to scare the Americans, and this image is portraying this accurately.
I believe this image is controversial. I can't say is "racist" but maybe "iffy". I think if anything the physical stereotypes and the aggressive behavior could be argued as racist. I however feel that this image could possibly represent the hostility the Japanese could of had against the Americans during the WWII time period. Overall i think that this image could represent the feelings the Japanese had back then, however because i as not around, and physically witnessed the activity that took place back then, i can not accurately claim this image as "racist" only controversial.