And Here’s the DCnU’s Redesigned Darkseid
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?Specifically, redesigned by Jim Lee, as if you couldn’t have guessed. I know it was a little much to hope that DC would not try to fix what wasn’t broken — that’s kind of the official motto of Crisis on Infinite Reboots, after all — but I’m still boggled that, in 2011, after decades of this very issue coming up, comic artists are still designing comic costumes that have arrows pointing at crotches. Really, Jim Lee? You don’t have that rule written down on a post-it note somewhere? And DC, no one noticed that Darkseid’s odd purple waist-thingie points directly to his Dickseid?
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