Anonymous
asked:
As a roma myself I'm deeply saddened and offended that a book under your umbrella (Uncanny Avengers #9) is relying the message that roma is a religion. Comics reach many people and it's a disservice to spread such reckless and uninformed information. Roma people have their fair share of people spreading uninformed information about them. We don't need comics to do that as well. Thanks for your attention.
Yeah, we fouled that up pretty good. As you might expect, that whole series of exchanges was written and rewritten more than just about any other part of the book–and at some point, the notion of Romani as a heritage got conflated with the notion of Judaism as a heritage (there was a draft in which Rogue asks Wanda about her Judaism, which seemed wrong to me–Wanda wasn’t raised in that faith regardless of the background of her parents, so it seemed like the wrong place to be groping for an analogy.) And once it got conflated, we all missed it in the hustle to get the book to press–me, Daniel, the proofreading team, Rick, all of us. So yeah, I’m sorry about that. Mea culpa.