As I've mentioned, a good logo should first and foremost work "bare", preferably without any 3D rendering and Photoshop fanciness. Once you have that iconic, strong, basic logo, you can of course optionally add those effects later. If, on the other hand, those effects are actually part of the original logo, it vastly narrows its subsequent versatility. In real-world use, this (see pic) is the kind of results you get. A 'peel' made of stone/metal? Hmm. Visual treatments multiply and collide uncomfortably.

Now I've seen the logo on the actual comics, it disappoints in that context too, in what should be it's strongest application.

Sorry, chaps. I know you meant well.

"Did Alan Moore get screwed on his contract? Of course. Lots of people get screwed, but we still have Spider-Man and lots of other heroes." - Joe Michael Straczynski.?* Before Watchmen author.

""Kirby got a shitty contract too, so get over it" isn't a great tag line". - Ed Brubaker, Captain America author.

"But how is it any more wrong than the way any comics creators were treated, especially those who came out of the Golden and Silver Age? Worse than Jack Kirby, who couldn?t even get his art back in his failing years? Worse than Siegel and Shuster?"

My involvement with the so-called B5 novels from Mongoose has been mis-stated and misrepresented, and the conduct of pillaging my scripts and posts without my knowledge or permission is dubious at best, dishonorable at worst.

They are licensed B5 fan fiction, nothing more, nothing less. And lots of folks like that stuff, and that's all to the good.

But do not say that they are "100% canon."

And I have no desire to become involved with these novels, and will not endorse them. It ain't the money, it ain't the Deal...I am for rent, but I am not for sale, because I have an obligation to the viewers of this show to be consistent and to always work for the utmost quality in our storytelling within the framework of a consistent universe.

If you want to create a pocket universe, feel free. But it's got nothing to do with the B5 universe insofar as I am concerned.

And leave my scripts and my notes out of it. I do not approve their use.

1) Soldiers between Eclipso's Black Diamond and a Demon Knights dragon are the from the Terracotta Army:

2) The bone chandelier hung in the center of the panel is from Sedlec Ossuary (Church of Bone)

3) The markings around the door are a variation of components of The Great Seal

In the background, directly between 7 and 10 (and next to the ear of the demon head thing in the right-foreground) is a red lantern battery

Just above the Spear of Destiny is what appears to be the Coronation Chair from Westminster Abbey, complete with the Stone of Scone.

Vertigo is alive and well and an important part of DC Entertainment?s mission. ?*There have been no changes to Vertigo?s structure, its team or its priority within the company.

2007 marked the graphic invasion of the peeling trompe l'oeil sticker. These graphic devices, usually referred to as violators, held a revered spot in the packaging industry and usually held copy such as "new and improved" or "30% more detergent." Often as simple as a laid-back shape on a round background, these designs gave the appearance of a sticker with poor adhesion. Used on web interfaces and print, alike the proliferation of these violators reached saturation levels by 2010.

The old faux tactile effect, which had completely run its course, is reincarnated now as a reveal. The effect is incorporated into identities set to unveil or expose an inner value or underlying trait. The rendered shadow implying that the peeling back of layers is occurring in real time gives you an immediate peek behind the scenes. DC Comics uses a family of solutions, each pulling back the curtain on a graphic representing a different super hero.

For me, Superman has the same problems we do, but on a Paul Bunyan scale. If Superman walks the dog, he walks it around the asteroid belt because it can fly in space. When Superman?s relatives visit, they come from the 31st century and bring some hellish monster conqueror from the future. But it?s still a story about your relatives visiting.

Gayness is built into Batman. I?m not using gay in the pejorative sense, but Batman is very, very gay. There?s just no denying it. Obviously as a fictional character he?s intended to be heterosexual, but the basis of the whole concept is utterly gay. I think that?s why people like it. All these women fancy him and they all wear fetish clothes and jump around rooftops to get to him. He doesn?t care?he?s more interested in hanging out with the old guy and the kid.

When Marston died in 1947, they got rid of the pervy elements, and instantly sales plummeted. Wonder Woman should be the most sexually attractive, intelligent, potent woman you can imagine. Instead she became this weird cross between the Virgin Mary and Mary Tyler Moore that didn?t even appeal to girls.

Okay, we?ve had all these varied versions of the Joker. Let?s say it?s the same person who just changes his head every day. I rationalized that by saying he?s supersane, the first man of the 21st century who?s dealing with this overload of information by changing his entire personality. I quite like him, because he?s a pop star?he?s like Bowie.