Mad-Dog was a Marvel book. why on Earth did I think it was DC? Amazing.

It was a flip book. One side had overly serious hero, the other had a comical
satire version. Of the two the satire was better.

Allegedly based on the Bob Newhart show, Bob, where he was a comic book artist.

Didn't know it was a Marvel book.

As for the early tokens, they did look forced and probably were, tho for some
reason, at Marvel, they could be the stereotypes (which I never thought they
were) like Falcon, Panther or Luke Cage, but examine those three characters,
they really aren't the same depiction of a black man.

By comparison to DC, with each black hero refusing to be in the team, Tyroc in
the Legion, Black Lightning in the JLA. It as like the writers way of saying
'the character doesnt WANT to belong!'

Well, that did get the writer out of thinking he wouldn't be able to write
"black" dialogue, I guess.

But looking at how botched up a team book like the Champions was done, or even
the new Defenders (never purchased a single book, I'm glad to say) it would be
disastrous to see one of them take on a team composed of Falcon, Black Panther,
Luke Cage, Iron Fist and the Angel.

--- In superteamheadquarters@yahoogroups.com, "xmscity1225" <xmscity1225@...>
wrote:
I remember a "Wild Dog" series from DC in the 1990's, with the guy wearing a
hockey mask, but not a "Mad Dog" series.
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> As to political correctness, it did seem forced often since so much of DC's
major heroes were straight white guys (though Superman was an alien from another
planet, so that should count for something), and having obviously minority
heroes join was often a questionable move since the reader couldn't always tell
if the writer wanted to add that character or was told they had to. Now, more
of DC's heroes span various backgrounds (especially by adding the Milestone
characters), so there can be a more representational mix without it being so
"forced".
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> (Though I wish they would stop taking the names of dead or retired white male
heroes and giving them to minority replacements . . . can't they come up with
some new names, even if they aren't saving the copyright?)
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