Target Inadvisably Mocks Home-Made Halloween Costumes

Target‘s name is something of a self-fulfilling prophecy these days.  Just to make sure that everyone has beef with them, the retailer has levied a snide, mocking blow at, of all people, moms who take the time to make charming homemade costumes for their kids instead of buying a cheap licensed knock off at some big box store.

The rebuttals have been swift and unmerciful, from Slate, who points out that the materials to make this costume, if bought at Target, would net the company more than buying the official costume, and from Wired (and Youtube commenters) who point out that Tony Stark hand made his own costume under more trying circumstances.

We would like to humbly add that among the more famous superheroes with homemade costumes is the first one of them all, and that, indeed, Ma Kent did the sewing for him.

(via Wired.)

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Susana Polo thought she'd get her Creative Writing degree from Oberlin, work a crap job, and fake it until she made it into comics. Instead she stumbled into a great job: founding and running this very website (she's Editor at Large now, very fancy). She's spoken at events like Geek Girl Con, New York Comic Con, and Comic Book City Con, wants to get a Batwoman tattoo and write a graphic novel, and one of her canine teeth is in backwards.

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