Marvel Comics artist Mike Deodato Jr. has compared himself to MCU’s Namor Tenoch Huerta in a bizarre social media post.
Over the course of his career, Deodato Jr. has worked on some of Marvel’s biggest titles, such as amazing spider man, avengers, The Incredible Hulk and much more. However, the artist seems to have taken issue with Marvel Studios’ Namor casting for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.
Sharing an image of himself next to a photo of Tenoch Huerta’s Namor, Mike Deodato Jr. shocked fans with both his choice of photo and his Huerta-shaming comments.
In a now-deleted Instagram post, Mike Deodato Jr. compared an image of Tenoch Huerta as Namor from the Black Panther: Wakanda Forever trailer with an image of himself in his birthday suit.
Both images showed their subject from behind with bare backs — and everything else, in Deodato’s case. A Deodato caption added to the image read “You can tell someone they screwed up when a movie character looks worse [sic] shape than the 60-year-old artist who designed it.
Since taking down the image, Mike Deodato Jr. has shared a post apologizing for his comments, in which he claims he was “making fun of the comic book character, not the actor.” While he doesn’t seem to blame Tenoch Huerta, who he says will “do a great job with the character,” the original post compared his body to Huerta’s, not a comic book illustration of Namor.
Mike Deodato Jr.’s claim that the original post “simply got out of hand because of the haters of the internet” does little to help the sincerity of his apology. It seems strange that an artist who often worked on Namor took such an inappropriate approach in response to casting Tenoch Huerta as the character.
Here is the synopsis of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever:
In Marvel Studios’ “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” Queen Ramonda (Angela Bassett), Shuri (Letitia Wright), M’Baku (Winston Duke), Okoye (Danai Gurira) and the Dora Milaje (including Florence Kasumba), fight to protect their nation from intervening world powers following the death of King T’Challa. As the Wakandans strive to embrace their next chapter, the heroes must band together with the help of War Dog Nakia (Lupita Nyong’o) and Everett Ross (Martin Freeman) and chart a new course for the kingdom of Wakanda.
Directed by Ryan Coogler from a script he co-wrote with Joe Robert Cole, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever stars Letitia Wright, Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira, Winston Duke, Florence Kasumba, Dominique Thorne, Michaela Coel, Tenoch Huerta, Martin Freeman and Angela Bassett.
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever hits theaters on November 11, 2022. Stay tuned for all the latest news on the next MCU movie and subscribe to the Heroic Hollywood YouTube channel for more original content.
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