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Yes. Many of them. During the time I was working on the character, I met
several fans, a different ages, who asked why people could not tell Clark
was Superman, since they both had blue hair.

And during my time on the book, they didn't!!!

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Correct. Try this simple exercise: draw the outline of, say, a teardrop
shape about an inch an a half high by an inch wide. Note how long it
takes you to do it.

Now do another one, same size, and black it it. Note how long that
takes.

As some of you know, I have taken to doing my black gutters and
starscapes in Photoshop, as it gives a crisper edge, a more solid black --
and it takes less time. The other day, I came to an ANGEL page in the
current job that was very black heavy. LA at night, Angel in black, black
gutters. I decided to apply the Photoshop technique, carefully drew the
edges of all the black areas (no gaps!), scanned the page and click click
click, it was done. In about half the time it would have taken filling in
the blacks with ink.

Next day I was chatting on the phone with Terry Austin, and he
mentioned that he sometimes found himself wishing he could do this,
but, as he put it, "I'm Fred Flintstone, not George Jetson!"

When I was working on X-MEN, Chris and I did a backup story about
Storm and the Black Panther. If featured a hitman, hired by a White
African landowner, shooting at Ororo as she walked thru Harlem. I drew
a lean faced, narrow featured guy with short hair left open for color. The
colorist decided that the White badguy had hired a Black assassin to
kill Storm, and colored the guy's skin brown and his hair blue. You could
almost hear the thought process -- "Gee! Byrne forgot to black in this
guy's hair! I'll fix it!"

Later, when working on STARBRAND I included Roger Price, then the head
of MidOhioCon and a good buddy, as a character. Again, short hair, left
open for color. Which the colorist decided was blue.

At least Roger stayed White!

Part of the problem is that for some colorists, at least in days of yore, the
primaries were default colors. "When in doubt, make it blue!" This is how
brown-eyed Benjamin Grimm became blue-eyed Benjamin Grimm.

The first two I can understand -- not agree with, but understand -- but the
third makes no sense at all to me. Why would the Hulk (who has turned
green all over) not have green hair?