Is It Just Me?

[melchi]

Spawn is black, and he doesn't back down when someone messes with his community....

 

[CharlesEBrown]

Yep, he was a legend.

Such a legend that he expanded my knowledge of the character "Ultraman" (and probably watched it on the same channel I did as a kid), and had a character named after him shortly after his passing (Naomi McDuffie, of the comic book series and the CW television show Naomi)

Oh, and this tidbit:

Icon is a conservative Republican who holds conservative views on economic and social issues, which often put him in conflict with more liberal Milestone Comics superheroes, including his sidekick. Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas was an avowed fan of Icon, to the extent that he quoted the character on multiple occasions; upon learning of this, author Dwayne McDuffie, who in the blog post he wrote on the matter described himself as liberal, suffered writer's block out of fears that dialogue he wrote would be used in the service of conservatism.