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Valiant Comics Kills Off The President Of Syria

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You'd have thought sharing an office building with Planned Parenthood in Manhattan would be excitement enough for Valiant Entertainment.

Valiant Comics Kills Off The President Of Syria

But in today's Harbinger #0 (and, you know, spoilers), President Bashar al-Assad of Syria meets his death at the hands of an angry mob.

Valiant Comics Kills Off The President Of Syria

He's not named Assad in the comic, obviously. And he has a beard, but it's one drawn on those familiarly hamsterish cheeks of Assad.

Valiant Comics Kills Off The President Of Syria

Of course, Assad's lot are no friends of comic book creators.

Valiant Comics Kills Off The President Of Syria

Mark Millar once tried to do this with the president of Indonesia in The Authority, but it was internally censored by DC Comics so it became the leader of a non-determined country.

Valiant? Less frit, it seems.

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Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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