And if the emblem is one of the reasons the book has been pushed back, why didn't DC deal with it right from the start?
You forget this is the same company that in the past has actually gone as far as physically publishing certain comic-books, but then pulled them and pulped them for editorial reasons. DC is just a bit slow when it comes to things like that. I suppose it's better to have the book be delayed now rather than be pulled out of our hands and pulped before we get the chance to read it.
Then again, Quitely's infamously slow, so that probably had something else to do with it.
I don't think Quitely is the one going through and re-doing all the S logos.
To correct the subject line, the cover-up emblem isn't "classic." It's emblematic of everything wrong with the Iron Age, and I
don't want this to be the Iron Age Superman. Plus, I really really hate that extra-thick black line that DC keeps insisting be between the yellow and the red.
I thought the Quitely original never looked like a modification, it just looked like part of his art style and fit very well. I liked it a lot and am very disappointed that it's suffering the same fate as Jack Kirby's faces did back in
Jimmy Olsen. But at least the artists who did that cover-up work were human beings, who had talent and their own art style. This is just generic and ugly.
Somehow it reminds me of the
Ma and Pa Kent redesign that afflicted
Birthright. In that case too, I think the original idea was better, more true to the Superman legend, and the enforced change diminished the end result. Yes, I blame DC editorial for
Birthright's less-than-stellar sales performance. :wink:
I'm not opposed to
all editorial changes (like those that used to be imposed on Frank Miller until after DK), just to the mistaken ones, probably dictated by marketing departments or something.
(Okay DC marketroids, look at Superman #400 - that sold like oxygen tanks in Atlantis, and Superman's S logo was completely different on every single page! And I don't even want to think about Al Williamson, Will Eisner, Moebius, Klaus Janson, or any of those other artists being subjected to Quitley's fate..)