2011-12-06
Explanation
This comic features a confrontation between Superman and Lex Luthor, but with a satirical twist. Luthor announces he has poisoned the water supply to kill everyone within a hundred-mile radius, but Superman awkwardly points out that this is a predominantly minority community. Luthor insists it was not a racism thing, but Superman keeps pressing: Luthor targeted people who share a single water supply and cannot afford bottled water, meaning he specifically selected poor minorities.
The humor comes from Luthor's increasingly desperate attempts to deny racist intent while every detail of his plan points in that direction. The punchline cuts to a newspaper with the headline "Celebrity Nipples: A Retrospective," implying that the media completely ignored the actual story of a supervillain targeting minorities in favor of trivial celebrity gossip. The comic satirizes both systemic racism (how harmful actions disproportionately affect minority communities even without explicit racist intent) and media priorities.