NEWS: Wonder Woman and Superman With AIDS

CULTURE: Wonder Woman and Superman With AIDS

The AIDES Association, a French AIDS awareness network, has created some disturbing ads depicting "Wonder Woman" and "Superman" (PDF) stricken with AIDS. They include TV spots and posters.

Babelfish Translation:

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HOLY CRAP.

That superman picture is so my new desktop.

those are incredible!!!!

DAMN

actually it reminds me of this artist ( i don't think it was duane hanson) who made life size, hyper real statues of superheroes when they're old...

wow

That was my reaction as well.
Wow.

Time Warner is going to get down to some serious lawsuits for that one!

I think its some pretty powerful stuff as far as getting a message across -- the shock value of them is great.

People who see thath are going to say to themselves that's pretty messed up, think its kind of cool looking, wonder why they look so frail, etc ...

One way or another, the images will draw your attention to them if they're posted up somewhere.

disturbing. but then again, so is AIDS. hopefully they will have the itended effect of increasing awareness.

Did DC Comics sign off on this?

Yep... AOL/TW is gonna end up owning their ass.....

did the ppl responsible for the ad actually say that it was wonder women/superman? obviously its intended to look like them, but unless they expressly stated that it was them, they may be able to get away with it.

isn't wonderwoman and superman copyrighted by dc comics
they dont have to blatantly say it's superman/ wonderwoman to get sued, a likeness is enough.


[Edited on Jul 16, 2004 by fiendish]

I would say their premise is 50% implausible. Wonder Woman is from Earth and not immune to disease but is very stong, agile, and has quick reflexes. Superman is not from Earth and IS immune to disease, the only thing that would affect him is some form of radiation or the a part of his home planet...which doesn't make him weak just not stong.

Sorry, I guess I'm a nerd

Gotta love the french-so dramatic and I'll bet the'll just tell Time Warner to kiss thier sweet french ass too. Love the ads.

i mean, really, where exactly did they get this idea? why superman? batman wouyld make more sense. . .
dunno, seems really random.

it's obviously to get the idea that anybody, even the strongest or the most healthy, can be struck down by AIDS. It's not meant to be plausible, kind of like the idea that an alien coming down from another planet with superpowers will come to our planet to save us all.

and who's to say the image rights weren't agreed upon? it's an important message anywhere around the world.

that kind of campaign pays off for all the dirty and stupid ads that are made for selling us crap we don't need most of the time.

well done !

Superman is already parylyzed. I dont think he needs anymore shit.

wow. just...wow.