Comments on: Monday PSA: Robin and the ONISGS

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When The Green Lantern Fought HIV/AIDS, Homophobia | Death and Taxes — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:16:54 +0000

[...] only sleep with nice women,” and other characters, including the Flash and Batman sidekick Robin, faced similarly illuminating [...]

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 20 May 2010 04:13:12 +0000

Does anyone else think the second panel word balloon text could easily be replaced with “No, Master Drake, I expect you to DIE” without changing Alfred’s expression in the slightest and it would still work?

By: Niki

Niki — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 18:57:59 +0000

Anyone else get the video in fifth grade about AIDS that started with kids talking about rumors of how you got it? If you pet the cat of someone with AIDS you get AIDS! Dumbest educational moment ever even if it was showing how dumb people were about it.

By: Minstrel

Minstrel — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 13:23:53 +0000

I remember there was a “Captain Planet” episode that tackled AIDS. In it, Verminous Scumm (the rat-like villain) spreads misinformation about AIDS in school to ruin the life of a boy suffering from the disease. Why would you trust a guy in torn clothing, hiding his face behind a red scarf and draging a tail behind him is beyond me.

Still, the episode got me a bit of info on AIDS before they hit upon that topic in schools back in Poland, so I guess it served its purpose.

By: Marc

Marc — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 00:56:29 +0000

Vertigo had the best of the PSA’s: A Neil Gaiman bit starring John Constantine and Death.

By: Chris Arndt

Chris Arndt — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 21:07:34 +0000

I still see that PSA in my comics…

it kinda sucks….

By: Ratbat

Ratbat — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 13:44:47 +0000

And what’s Robin mean, ‘Kids don’t know that stuff. Nobody tells us.’ I don’t know about the Gotham schooling system or youth culture, but when I was that age (somewhat earlier than Tim was), we were informed by media and counsellors and leaflets and stuff all the time. Not being told wasn’t the problem, it was not listening.

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 04:05:03 +0000

HIV virus. SAT test. DC comics, sorta kinda. Happens all the time. When I lived in Baltimore, Congressman Kweisi Mfume sent out a flyer containing Five Things You Need to Know about AIDS, or some such, and I swear, one of them was that “It’s just HIV, not ‘HIV virus.’”

By: Tom Foss

Tom Foss — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 21:22:27 +0000

The one I really remember is where Superman saves two gay guys from a mob of angry people blaming them for AIDS, which was part of the same campaign.

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 14:04:02 +0000

Now that you mention it, I do remember the one with Beetle, Booster and Fire. I’ll have to see if I can track it down for next week…