Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

[scratchie]

From http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2006/05/21/six_flags_embarks_on_a_new_adventure/ (emphasis mine):

... He's stepping aside to make room for the Marvel Comics Justice League[!]: Batman and Robin, the Flash, the Green Lantern, and Wonder Woman. ...Six Flags has been DC-branded for years. Either someone at their publicity department was asleep at the switch for that one, or "Globe correspondent" B.J. Roche is terminally clueless.

[DDM]

We know BJ Roche obviously has never read comic books recently...

[scratchie]

We know BJ Roche obviously has never read comic books recently...Like, in the last forty years.

[Rob Allen]

Reminds me of the time I read in the newspaper about the company that owned "Sabrina, the Teenage Witch" - Harvey Comics.

Sabrina has been an Archie Comics character since her creation in 1962.

[scratchie]

Reminds me of the time I read in the newspaper about the company that owned "Sabrina, the Teenage Witch" - Harvey Comics.This seems even worse, though. After all, these two companies have been "The Big Two" for the last forty years. It's like mixing up the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, whereas mixing up Harvey and Archie is more like confusing Steppenwolf with Deep Purple.

What's even worse is that this "reporter" is, as far as I can tell, just transcribing and paraphrasing a press release from the park's publicity department. I'm sure the publicist didn't use the name of DC's arch-rival when giving naming their signature characters, so it's like the reporter just pulled the name "Marvel Comics" out of his, um, ear or something.

[Agentum]

ooooooo, they made both companys angry in a very clever way.

[MDG]

Well, apparently the powerful comic geek lobby got to them because the page now says:

(Correction: Because of a reporting error, a story in Sunday's Business & Money section about Six Flags amusement parks incorrectly identified the publisher of comic book characters in the Justice League. DC Comics is the publisher.)

MDG

[dan bailey]

man, idiocy in reporters isn't exactly grounds for a news flash (my favorite after all these years may be the one who insisted that a candidate for office had referred to "a doggy-dog world"), but i'm somewhat surprised that somone on the copydesk didn't catch that. at my old paper in little rock, the night city editor had barely touched a comic since midway through the carter administration but he by god could match marvel & dc with their cornerstone characters, & the lateman showed every sign of being a full-blown comics geek (i never saw his torso attired in anything but a comics-character t-shirt).