Overreacting? As usual

[ic14]

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/trib.../s_186916.html

Overeacting or what?

[Ramrod]

This alone is reason enough:

....showed a hero crediting his defeat of an opponent with the power he gained from smoking cigarettes.

and this is questionable:

a female character who asks readers to pick up the next issue to see which "hot guy" would be the next to die.

...especially when it's being published by Scholastic

[Xaccers]

Was the comic marked as "mature readers only"?
I know the article mentions elementary and middle school kids, but that was actually in reference to the cartoons and cards, not this comic (just your usual media spin)

[Simon Rochelle]

I would say its mearly a difference in cultures and what one society looks on as morally acceptable being rejected by another which veiws things very differently