I'm sure all of the media outlets involved will print a retraction...

...one line on page 22C saying "Due to printing errors factual mistakes may have appeared in one of our stories from the other day."
 

Sigh... is right.
People get their panties in a wad WAY too much these days. Save it for when there's really something to get riled over.
 

As a liberal, a northerner, and a comic book reader (who is just following the story as it makes its way around the web), let me say this: Jeanette Boswell does not speak for me. And I agree with pretty much all you said: She clearly didn't look twice at the cover of the comic book before buying it; she clearly assumes anything with "Confederacy" in it is racist; and she certainly jumped the gun by going to the news media.

I wouldn't say she expects the media to raise her children (and there is something admirable about her choice to raise foster children). Instead, I think she holds an additional stereotypical view, which is that comic books are strictly for kids and should be devoid of any controversial content. I think this led her to bring her story to a wider audience, because she wants to raise the alarm that there are nasty bad comic books out there. It's a symptom of the widely held comics-are-for-kids mentality that the reporters found the story newsworthy at all.
 

John Ham: I wouldn't say she expects the media to raise her children (and there is something admirable about her choice to raise foster children). Instead, I think she holds an additional stereotypical view, which is that comic books are strictly for kids

You make a very good point with that. I probably did jump to a conclusion with the "let the media raise her kids" bit, which makes me as bad as her.

Nonetheless, I can't for the life of me imagine why she thought this was worth going to the media, and the only thing I can come up with is that she was using the media to try to protect other kids from this terrible, southern story.
 

So far as I can tell, the paper hasn't run my short little attempt to correct their misunderstanding. No biggie. It did inspire me to do something I'd been thinking about for ages: I'm revising the old comic book and posting it online as a free serial.