Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Differing Definitions

From the latest USA Today article on Flushpoint:

The recent emphasis on diverse characters such as lesbian superheroine Batwoman, Hispanic hero Blue Beetle and African-American adventurer Cyborg (who will be a core member of Johns and Lee's new Justice League) also will continue.

Obviously, DC has a different definition of "emphasis" than most of us do.

Maybe actually publishing a comic book starring Batwoman, Blue Beetle or Cyborg would help, as opposed to perpetually putting off Batwoman, cancelling Blue Beetle, and having Cyborg "star" in a series that is explicitly not in current DC reality.

(Or maybe if USA Today actually, you know, reported, rather than blindly passing along DC press releases as news...squawk, Polly want a cracker!)

I'm just sayin.'

2 comments:

  1. They also have a strange definition of "adventurer". I mean, why is Batwoman a "superheroine", Blue Beetle a "hero" and Cyborg... an "adventurer"? I stubbed my toe on that one.

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  2. They're so dedicated to diversity because they need to have a large stable of non-white characters so they can always have someone they can kill off.

    And I give Vic Stone a year before they decide to drop a fridge on him and turn the comic into "Justice League of Honkey Douchebags."

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