Tuesday, April 18, 2006

Comics - Crap! White space! Quick put an ad on it!

Via the Wall Street Journal
"Superheroes like Superman and Spider-Man can save mankind from natural disasters, space aliens and evil mutants. But there's one thing they are powerless to stop: Advertisers shilling products within the pages of the comic books they call home."


Great... the corporate whores are on the march. I mean, you could always count on Hostess to drop an ad or two in the middle of the book, but you knew it was an ad. This intergrates it so fully in the art and makes their corporate products part of the story... that hits a new low.

Why am I surprised?