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Tweak says, "Steady on, Frodo!"

cyberghostface (cyberghostface) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-05-21 15:59:00

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char: superman/kal-l/clark kent, genre: public service announcement, publisher: dc comics

Superman Says: "People are People!"

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	sailorlibra 2009-05-21 03:20 pm UTC (link)
	Do you think the artist was trying to color the boy's skin brown or yellow, originally? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	heat16 2009-05-21 03:24 pm UTC (link)
	Hey, it's not easy being green either. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	pyrotwilight 2009-05-21 03:22 pm UTC (link)
	...but isn't that the green fellow stopping the Lion? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	icon_uk 2009-05-21 03:45 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, that was my thought too... (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ex_stig213 2009-05-21 03:50 pm UTC (link)
	It's a grammar error. Superman says in the penultimate panel, "Because of his colour? As a matter of fact he [the boy of colour] WAS the lad [who stopepd the lion with his quick-thinking]!" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	icon_uk 2009-05-21 03:56 pm UTC (link)
	Fair enough. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	The green is especially appropriate angelophile 2009-05-21 03:23 pm UTC (link)
	"Big city, hmm? Live. Work, huh? But. Only peoples. Peoples is peoples. No is buildings. Is tomatoes, huh? Is peoples, is dancing, is music, is potatoes. So, peoples is peoples. Okay?" (Reply to this) (Thread)

	Re: The green is especially appropriate filbypott 2009-05-21 04:33 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah... yeah, thanks. That helped a lot. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Re: The green is especially appropriate dustbunny105 2009-05-21 09:42 pm UTC (link)
	Ah, Pete, a man of great philosophical depths. I need to find that movie :( (Reply to this) (Parent)

	vignettelante 2009-05-21 03:29 pm UTC (link)
	I've spent way too much time on youtube...when I read that guy saying "My boy", I automatically appended "this peace is what all true warriors strive for!" (Reply to this) (Thread)

	wonderwomanhero 2009-05-21 03:51 pm UTC (link)
	"But father what if something happens to you?" (Reply to this) (Parent)

	nagaoka 2009-05-21 04:02 pm UTC (link)
	You weren't the only one. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	besamim 2009-05-21 03:52 pm UTC (link)
	Notice how as Superman says, "How do you know it wasn't the other lad?", the white kid points at the, er, non-white kid. That will be Superman's next public service message: It's Impolite to Point. (Reply to this)

	04nbod 2009-05-21 03:53 pm UTC (link)
	damn right (Reply to this) (Thread)

	liarashadowsong 2009-05-21 04:41 pm UTC (link)
	Brainy! Squee! glomps icon (Reply to this) (Parent)

	lakrids404 2009-05-21 03:56 pm UTC (link)
	Go home alien! We don't want you, to interfere in our cultural development!!! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	icon_uk 2009-05-21 04:28 pm UTC (link)
	The above message is endorsed by Lex Luthor - LexCorp, because we don't need an alien overlord - (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	runespoor7 2009-05-21 06:43 pm UTC (link)
	This cracked me up. :D (Reply to this) (Parent)

	ex_stig213 2009-05-21 03:58 pm UTC (link)
	Oddly enough, I spent the last hour feeling insanely angry at the BNP. This was nice to see, even if it is a bit silly. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	icon_uk 2009-05-21 04:29 pm UTC (link)
	Let me reassure you that there's absolutely nothing insane about feeling angry about the BNP. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	filbypott 2009-05-21 04:34 pm UTC (link)
	If someone isn't angry at the BNP, there's something wrong with them. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	bluejaybirdie 2009-05-21 04:54 pm UTC (link)
	What is the BNP? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	filbypott 2009-05-21 05:03 pm UTC (link)
	The British National Party... or British Nazi Party, more like. Seriously, they're literally descended from WWII-era Nazi sympathizers. They're a political party in the UK with pretty much one issue - evicting all non-whites from Great Britain. A lot like the militia nuts here in the USA, only way more radical but not as well-armed. (Reply to this) (Parent)

icon_uk
2009-05-21 06:08 pm UTC (link)

"British National Party", formerly the "National Front", radical far Right political movement in the UK. One of Britain's biggest embarrassments, politically speaking.

Likes; Racism, scaremongering and spreading rumours about how all immigrants are moneygrubbing, jobstealing, probable terrorists. Nasty, vile and generally loathesome. The sort of people it's actually okay to feel good about despising.

There's the legendary graffitti "I've got half a mind to join the BNP" and underneath someone had added "Don't worry, that's all you'll need"

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	icon_uk 2009-05-21 06:09 pm UTC (link)
	I was going to add a "Dislikes" paragraph to that entry, but realised that we'd need a new internet just to hold all a list that big. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	bluejaybirdie 2009-05-21 06:11 pm UTC (link)
	Ah, I remember my dad talking about them when I lived over in Kent. I was too young to understand though. Now I'm back in Texas, and the BNP sounds all too familiar: all those people down here who hate "the mexicans." Unfortunatly, they aren't as ridiculed as the BNP seems to be... (Reply to this) (Parent)

	bluefall 2009-05-21 06:59 pm UTC (link)
	Heheh. Nobody tell them that the first time I ever heard of them (just the acronym and that they were an extant political party, nothing about their actual platform), my immediate thought was "huh. Black national party, maybe?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	xandertarbert 2009-05-23 05:53 am UTC (link)
	Hmmm, then can't you argue that the picts and gael got there first, so everybody can GTFO? You know, if you go back far enough, almost everybody's people have been almost wiped out by another set of people. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	tavella 2009-05-21 04:37 pm UTC (link)
	Clumsy as all hell, but sweet all the same. What's the period, I wonder? 60s? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	cyberghostface 2009-05-21 07:05 pm UTC (link)
	It's from the 50s. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	fungo_squiggly 2009-05-21 04:02 pm UTC (link)
	The context is, Superman heard Mr. Carson was a giant racist, and decided to teach him a lesson in true Silver Age fashion. The escaped lion, the two boys in their matching "W"-themed outfits, the deliberate vagueness about which of them was the hero... all part of Superman's plan. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	cyberghostface 2009-05-21 07:08 pm UTC (link)
	Superman wouldn't let a wild animal on the loose to prove a point...would he? ;) (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	superfan1 2009-05-21 10:06 pm UTC (link)
	LOl, yeah.... (Reply to this) (Parent)

	xandertarbert 2009-05-23 05:54 am UTC (link)
	http://superdickery.com/ (Reply to this) (Parent)

	nagaoka 2009-05-21 04:06 pm UTC (link)
	That guy should have known the expert lion tamer would be the black guy. They're all from Africa...right? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	aaron_bourque 2009-05-21 05:46 pm UTC (link)
	I need a forehand icon. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	liarashadowsong 2009-05-21 04:40 pm UTC (link)
	I'm confused. Is the guy who used the chair to fend off the lion from Colu? He certainly looks it, what with the green skintone and all. ;P (Reply to this) (Thread)

	04nbod 2009-05-22 10:08 am UTC (link)
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	sianmink 2009-05-21 08:00 pm UTC (link)
	Yup, Superman. People are people, regardless of color. Unless they're mechanical people. Then you can kill them guilt-free. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	pyrotwilight 2009-05-21 09:29 pm UTC (link)
	Shhh, don't let Tommie hear you. Ohh shh- (Reply to this) (Parent)

	perletwo 2009-05-21 10:52 pm UTC (link)
	Gahhh, stupid IJ won't let me embed. Have Superman and Dave Gahan ever been seen together in the same room? (Reply to this)

dr_hermes
2009-05-22 12:28 am UTC (link)

Doesn't anyone paint anymore? To get different shades of brown, you put red and green together. That's the same way comics used to do it, and the colorist here forgot to add the red (or it dropped off). This happened a lot in old comics, which is why the production people preferred simple primary colors and disliked purple, gray, tan.. anything that required more than one overlay.

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liarashadowsong
2009-05-22 01:15 pm UTC (link)

The point here isn't "You need to overlay dots of red and green to get brown". I know that little fact, and so do a lot of other people here, I'm willing to bet. The point we like is "OMG green dude! Maybe he's a cousin of Brainy or Martian Manhunter! *gigglesnort* [/not so secretly about twelve years old on the inside]". Although the reasoning behind old comics production people preferring primary colors and not liking using purple and gray and tan and such is quite interesting, thanks.

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	aaron_bourque 2009-05-22 01:26 pm UTC (link)
	It's the reason the original Hulk went from Grey to Green. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	liarashadowsong 2009-05-23 08:54 am UTC (link)
	Very interesting. I like him better green, anyways. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

dr_hermes
2009-05-23 07:19 pm UTC (link)

The same was true for Iron Man. He went to the gold armor because the first issue came out with inconsistent coloring.

Aside from the frequent miscolorings, it's also the reason a lot of old comics had bits of color extending beyond the characters.. the overlays were put on carelessly or slipped during production.

Early Marvel often had panels that were monochrome or figures all red or blue. This wasn't an artistic effect, but just an attempt to save time.

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	dr_hermes 2009-05-23 07:21 pm UTC (link)
	Some people know it, some may not and might be genuinely puzzled. It's way in the past by now. (Reply to this) (Parent)