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Comic Book Folk React To… The Death Of Fidel Castro

Published Sat, 26 Nov 2016 08:00:47 -0600

Last updated Fri, 02 Dec 2016 09:45:04 -0600

Fidel Castro, ex-President and revolutionary leader of Cuba. Reaction has been… mixed. Here's what some comic book and comic-adjacent folk thought…

Fidel Castro is dead. It's too late to try to redeem yourself, 2016.

— Vanessa Satone 💜💀💜 (@vsatone) November 26, 2016

Whoa. Castro died. https://t.co/cJ8x316in7

— Adam P. Knave (@adampknave) November 26, 2016

Fidel Castro 1926-2016. Reinhard Kleist talks about his @SelfMadeHero graphic bio of Castro & a new Cuban comic … https://t.co/yshwcWIKVA pic.twitter.com/KeUh2wzPVk

— Paul Gravett (@paul_gravett) November 26, 2016

Not had time to photoshop Castro's hat and cigar onto a fiddle so please use your imaginations. #FiddleCastro

— S&H illustrated reports / David Ziggy Greene (@SaHreports) November 26, 2016

Castro is dead.

A photo posted by James Gunn (@jamesgunn) on Nov 25, 2016 at 9:41pm PST

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Wow, Fidel Castro finally died. I was certain he was going to live forever from dark magic. 2016 finally did what the CIA couldn't.

— Cameron Hatheway (@CamComicCorner) November 26, 2016

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I thought Castro died years ago, for some reason.

— Sophie Campbell (@mooncalfe1) November 26, 2016

Castro now?

— Danie Ware 🤦🏻‍♀️ (@Danacea) November 26, 2016

Did Cuba do some good things for the world under Castro? Yes. But you can't get around the hundreds of thousands he killed or displaced.

— Sarah Horrocks (@mercurialblonde) November 26, 2016

Congratulations to the CIA operatives who successfully dosed Fidel Castro's food with slow-working poison in 1962.

— Frank Conniff (@FrankConniff) November 26, 2016

I don't think we'll be seeing the same loving tributes to Castro we've been seeing for Florence Henderson.

— Ken Levine (@KenLevine) November 26, 2016

Revolutionary Cuban leader Fidel Castro took a last puff on his cigar at 90 xx

— KatyManning Official (@ManningOfficial) November 26, 2016

Apparently I follow a lot of people who are against Trump bring a dictator, but Okey dokey with Castro being one. Like. A lot.

— Sarah Horrocks (@mercurialblonde) November 26, 2016

Yep. Same here. Happened at least two other times this year. Me thinking that, not Castro dying.

— Chris Hewitt (@ChrisHewitt) November 26, 2016

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Florence Henderson and now Fidel Castro. Weird how the stars of I LOVE LUCY passed away so close together.

— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) November 26, 2016

I can't believe #FidelCastro just died, finally. Talk about a huge historical figure. His span in power lasted from Eisenhower to Trump.

— ComicArtistPro Secrets (@EthanVanSciver) November 26, 2016

Castro vowed to outlive Florence Henderson and, true to his word, he did.

— Kevin Maguire (@maguirekevin) November 26, 2016

It makes me sad that she didn't live to see him die. I know she wanted that so much. Such a Cold Warrior. https://t.co/2VwJ8N4hC4

— ComicArtistPro Secrets (@EthanVanSciver) November 26, 2016

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