This is absolutely disgusting.

Just another adventure for Calvin and Hobbes. This eight-inch-tall figure was sculpted and hand-painted by Emily Coleman of emilySculpts.com. The piece took Coleman 25 hours to complete, who noted that "sculpting comic strip characters is very very hard." Head over to her DeviantArt gallery for more sculpty goodness.

Rob and I just had the following conversation:

bro... shut up.

In my opinion you ruin what could have been a perfectly stated post by emphasizing the character's race, as though that has any significance in the process. A character's backstory doesn't just disappear because they go through a change like this; in fact that backstory has every opportunity to enrich and expand the…

I wish I could recommend this post 20 times over. We need more commenters like you on the Gawker network.

Have no problem with Captain American being black, or Thor being a woman will be interesting to see how it plays out. But maybe some people who read comics more than I do, can tell me has there ever been any instances of where existing characters that have always been a women or say black or any other ethnicity…

I was amused to discover that:

But that would require the ability to come up with an original idea, and Marvel lost that superpower sometime in the 90s (as did DC). Rehash and Reboot is the name of the game in mainstream comics these days.

You didn't hear it from me, but after his death, Wolverine's getting a reverse reboot from a 6' showtunes singing and crying white guy back to a 5' grumpy Asian. And his real name will be "Logan". JUST Logan.

A big part of the problem (to me) with the Thor and Cap news is that we know as readers that these changes are temporary, and that colors our interpretation of how we read the race/gender dynamics they set up

That's exactly what I mean, though. I was not at all happy with how they handled Miles Morales, because they essentially assumed that the reason people read Spider-Man is for the hero, and not for the human behind the mask. In this case, though, The Falcon is a character who's known, and who, as you've said, has had a…

I think the bigger problem you're mentioning is that few, if any popular characters are at all new. The biggest superheroes have been doing this for 50+ years. In the 60s, you literally couldn't have a black/female/non-white male protagonist, at least not in mainstream comics.

Yep, likewise.