In a funny sort of way, I'm reminded of Marvel's LIVING MUMMY series. They made the lead character Black -- except he was a rotting corpse wrapped in bandages from top to toe, so being Black didn't really MATTER.

Much the same with Spawn, really.

they are doing it with a character who doesn't MATTER

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I think it matters.  It shows absolutely no respect for what came before.  The Golden Age characters should be shown respect. 

Look what they have done to Steve Ditko's characters. Particularly The Question.  Denny O'Neil attacked Ditko's politics using The Question, imo.  It was as if he was using The Question as a representation of Ditko, and then did everything he could to marginalize Ditko's vision of the character and political views.  Extremely low class on Denny's part.

Anymore it's more important to make a political statement and be patted on the head while being the pivot-man in a left handed circle jerk than making a viable character that will sell.

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I think it matters. It shows absolutely no respect for what came before. The Golden Age characters should be shown respect.

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I said that the CHARACTER doesn't matter, not what they're DOING with the character.

And, let's face it, the Golden Age characters -- excluding Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman -- haven't mattered up at DC for a LONG time. We're talking about people running the shop whose "golden age" was February.

We're talking about people running the shop whose "golden age" was February.

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And now people here at work are wondering why I'm sitting at my desk laughing loudly.

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Too true! I found myself thinking about this just the other day -- and the Masters like Gil Kane and Carmine Infantino, whose designs always played TO the lines of the body (male or female) not AGAINST them.

This is just another of those things that has guaranteed the success of some artists, of course -- they demonstrate to wannabe fans that, no, a good sense of design is NOT necessary in order to draw comics. (Along with those other things that are not necessary, like professionalism.)