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Michael Andrew Gonoude
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Is it just me, or is this somehow -- just very, very wrong?  From this week's Midtown Comics online solicitation. I know DC is in it for the money, like any other company, but, is nothing sacred?
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Stephen Churay
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Michael, unfortunately the Superman emblem is one a the most abused graphic images I ever seen. But it's not just you.
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Michael Andrew Gonoude
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Whoever approved this shoulda been flogged -- publicly, and for a l-o-n-g time.
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Juan Jose Colin Arciniega
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You mean like in this example???
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Robert White
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Well it's certainly an apt logo for what the characters done for the company.
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Michael Andrew Gonoude
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That's a parody, Juan Jose, so it's allowable, but in absence of any humorous element, it's blasphemy, and, clearly, stoning is called for - and no pebbles.
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Joe Hollon
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What's the context of its use at the site? The link just takes me to random comics for sale and that logo nowhere in sight.
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Michael Andrew Gonoude
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Sorry, Joe, I didn't even realize that what I'd posted was a link! The symbol is just randomly inserted on their homepage (do they still call it that?), but, son-of-a-gun, it is a link.
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Michael Andrew Gonoude
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I'm curious to know if JB has an opinion, given his history with the character (nothing to do with his "What The--?!" cover - as I said above, it's a perfectly legitimate parody; plus, I'm almost sure Wally Wood did it first...just don't have Superduperman handy at the moment).
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Aaron Poehler
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This seems like much ado about little to me.
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Rik Levins
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Michael, Wally Wood did do something similar in the Fifties, but it was Captain Marbles who sported the dollar sign. Superduperman mostly had a "post no bills" emblem (among other things, since it changed from panel to panel).
Edited by Rik Levins on 09 October 2009 at 12:15pm
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Bill Mimbu
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Well, I thought I remembered something like that was also done for The Beverly Hillbillies TV Show character Mr. Drysdale and his favorite comicbook super-hero "Money Man" / "Super-Banker", but apparently my memories were not quite accurate: 
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