The tsunami of outrage against presidential candidate Manuel Roxas 2nd’s comics depicting him as a fearless hero in Tacloban, when Supertyphoon Yolanda hit the city in November 2014, is quite understandable.

It’s classic propaganda without scruples: Spread a lie packaged in an entertaining manner (comics) among the masses before it can be debunked in the same costly medium (colored comics, even) or if those wishing to dispute it don’t have the resources (to hire an expansive cartoonist and publish the comics in full color) to do so.  After all, it’s just a month’s time before the May 9, 2016 elections. After that, to hell if the comics story is true or not.

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