That Guy Really Hates That Comic Mbutu Mondodo's various attempts to have Tintin Au Congo banned for its distressing and backwards depiction of the Congolese through racist visual constructions has reached a compelling moment: an attempt to plug that effort into the publicity generated by a trip of Belgium's Albert II to the Congo to celebrate 50 years of independence. You don't know whether to nod in admiration or shrink in horror at the PR impulses involved, although it's hard to have any reaction that makes much sense whenever you're freshly confronted with some of the imagery from the comic. I mean, you understand the history involved but yikes.
Mbutu Mondodo's various attempts to have Tintin Au Congo banned for its distressing and backwards depiction of the Congolese through racist visual constructions has reached a compelling moment: 
