Yesterday, Bleeding Cool ran an extensive article regarding messages that X-Men Gold artist Ardian Syaf had hidden in the first issue. It was picked up by a number of media organisations, forcing ...

In Indonesia, 212 is the number used to denote a specific mass protest from December 2nd of last year. Hundreds of thousands of Muslims marched against the Christian governor of Jakarta, Basuki ...

A passage from X-Men Gold #1 by Ardian Syaf (all images courtesy Marvel Comics) Indonesian readers quickly discovered the allusions, and Facebook user Haykal Al-Qasimi sent a public letter to Marvel ...

Marvel has “terminated” penciler Ardian Syaf after the artist stealthily inserted controversial political and religious references into the debut issue of X-Men: Gold. Syaf placed the numbers “212” ...

The controversy is largely based on Syaf placing a reference to a controversial verse from the Quran on Colossus’s shirt in a panel from X-Men Gold #1 that some, in particular to readers in Syaf’s ...

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