In NINO #9 NINO's mother encourages her 14-year-old son to engage in kill-or-be-killed combat. Vance Astrovik even points out the illegality of that in the course of the story. Plus NINO breaks his word and cheats. Not very heroic. Are these really the messages Disney wants to be sending to the pre-pubescent audience at whom this train wreck of a book is aimed? Do you really condone and encourage child combatants in defiance of the rest of Western Civilization? Condone cheating too?

Anonymous
Your argument would carry more weight if this was at all an issue that you were in the slightest way genuinely concerned about, and not just a cudgel you’re attempting to strike us with because you’re upset that the fictional character that you like has been replaced by a different fictional character. It’s pretty weak.