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DC Comics Lost

January 29th, 2009 by | Tags: , , , , , ,

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Black Adam & Isis: Arab

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Mister Miracle: Black

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Ra’s al Ghul: Arab

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Talia al Ghul: European, Chinese, and Arab (apparently)

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Renee Montoya: Dominican

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17 comments to “DC Comics Lost”

  1. You know Dominicans aren’t all Sammy Sosa and Pedro Martinez colored right? We come in a lot of colors, from honkey pink to midnight dark.

    Also Ra’s got resurrected as an albino.

         by Pedro Tejeda January 29th, 2009 at 20:34 --replyReply to this comment

  2. That’s still no excuse for Black Adam looking like Rock Hudson.

         by A.o.D. January 29th, 2009 at 21:11 --replyReply to this comment

  3. You think that’s bad? Look at how they drew david brothers in the latest installment of 4th Letter!

         by Gavok January 29th, 2009 at 21:16 --replyReply to this comment

  4. Heyyyy wait a second, isn’t Black Adam Egyptian and not Arab?

         by A.o.D. January 29th, 2009 at 21:17 --replyReply to this comment

  5. IIRC, Black Adam used to hang in Egypt with Hawkman and them, but was actually from (and ruled) Kandhaq.

         by david brothers January 29th, 2009 at 21:23 --replyReply to this comment

  6. According to wikipedia (and they have pictures) he was originally an ancient egyptian, complete with loincloth and silly hat.

         by A.o.D. January 29th, 2009 at 21:25 --replyReply to this comment

  7. Clearly there’s room for discussion on some of these…but what they did to Shilo Norman is not excusable.

         by RAB January 29th, 2009 at 21:31 --replyReply to this comment

  8. Egyptians (like Jesus) are actually darker than you assume they should be. See Doug Manhke’s Black Adam for better depictions of what he should probably look like – http://comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Page=1&Order=Date&Piece=443642&GSub=60737&GCat=0&UCat=0.

         by Pedro Tejeda January 29th, 2009 at 21:32 --replyReply to this comment

  9. Wait a minute, so New Question = Lara Croft – face?

         by k2 January 29th, 2009 at 21:37 --replyReply to this comment

  10. @k2: Well that explains the incredibly supportive tank top!

         by Alanna January 29th, 2009 at 22:03 --replyReply to this comment

  11. The Mister Miracle thing really flabbergasted me and made me wonder if they altered FC #7 after realizing the fuck-up or just regretting what they’d done, because as far as I can tell Mister Miracle is nowhere in that issue and I can’t believe that was the original plan.

         by dane_moniker January 29th, 2009 at 23:07 --replyReply to this comment

  12. @Gavok: How the hell did you find my picture?

    Also, yeah, this is really, really embarassing because you’d think the company that gave us accidents like “sometimes artists just draw white guys” would start to really scrutinize for these kinds of errors… and suddenly it looks like everyone just took a vacation in the editing department.

    (What book’s Black Adam from? The rest I recognize, but I didn’t see him in anything as of late.)

         by Syrg January 30th, 2009 at 03:28 --replyReply to this comment

  13. believe it or not what’s really wrong with Ra’s is the green eyes and he’s probably to dark. They stuck him in an albino body.

         by Jason January 30th, 2009 at 03:59 --replyReply to this comment

  14. The Black Adam pic’s in the recent JSA #23 Faces of Evil issue.

         by MarkPoa January 30th, 2009 at 06:19 --replyReply to this comment

  15. Mister Miracle caught my eye as well. I didn’t read 7 Soldiers or where ever he first showed up in, but I could tell this guy was black in Final Crisis. The coloring just made it seem like there was this blinding light being focused on him in the room though. Same deal with the Question. I’ve seen Montoya darker in her own miniseries. It just seemed like the contrast button got moved up before some of the FC comics came out. I’d actually like to go back and re-read some of the Final Crisis comics to see how wide of a problem this was.

    I’ve always thought artists did a better job drawing Black Adam than Isis, but I just get the overall feeling artists don’t draw a lot of Arabs in comics. I didn’t notice it when I first started reading comics, but now that they’re trying to push for diversity, I think a lot of artists are re-learning anatomy, trying to go for Arab while not falling on stereotype. It’s tough when there’s next to no examples of this from the last generation of artists.

    Ra’as Al Ghul been in Arkham for awhile in an albino’s body, so who KNOWS what he’s supposed to look like. I’m betting by fall he’ll look like he normally does and everybody will do their best to ignore it.

         by Dane January 30th, 2009 at 10:42 --replyReply to this comment

  16. They also messed up Empress in an early Final Crisis issue or tie in, don’t remember which.

         by elijahdprophet January 30th, 2009 at 13:36 --replyReply to this comment

  17. *snickers at Gavok* (anyone read the name of the image file?)

    I don’t have anything at hand, but does anyone remember how Shilo was shaded earlier in Final Crisis? I guess it’s been a couple months now, but I recall not recognizing him at first when he was shot, but that might have been costume rendering too.

         by el_benito January 30th, 2009 at 20:23 --replyReply to this comment