"God" isn't even his name, more of a job title. It'd be like expecting my driver's license to say "Office Temp, Jr."

Paul, I know you think your job is to give attention to attention whores, but...don't you have to draw the line somewhere?

@1 - Actually, I believe this loon thinks that GD was short for Goddamn. Because, when being hit by mortar fire, Superman is always careful to initialize his profanity.

If you want to know why Christianity is a faith NOT to believe in, this is the very place. Is God really soooo insecure that you have to go to Hell for something like this? This really is equivalent to murder and theft?

Maybe Kim in Portland can explain it to me, but this is a God I can't respect.

Am I reading that right? He thinks that the Superman creators were Christian? Cuz they were two Jews from Cleveland.

Paul, I double dare you to call this guy anonymously and ask him if he has any Preacher back issues or trades. If he says yes, he's the fucking king of the hypocrites.

From Grant Morrison himself:
“It should go without saying that the offending panel and caption, a mere ‘GD’, is a sound effect grunt – to suggest Superman’s breath being forced through gritted teeth – much like ‘DHH’, ‘GNUHH’ or the many others used throughout this book and in general in the comics business. It’s not in any way representative of God or a curse.”

I can't even believe this is a controversy.

Ironically, people who I'm willing to bet take restrictions on using the Lord's name in vain far, far more seriously than does anyone this loon knows well have no problem with referring to God as "GD".
By this, of course, I mean Orthodox Jews, who can be positively insane about misuse of the Lord's name (though God alone knows what a fundie southerner like this proprietor thinks about Jews). It's completely normal for Orthodox Jews to write "G-D" when they mean "God", even though this isn't strictly necessary as "God" (1) is not a name and (2) is in English. Heck, strictly Orthodox Jews save and later ritually bury scraps of paper containing what might be considered to be any one of many names of God, rather than risk impiously destroying them (a longstanding habit that has on occasion later been very useful for archaeologists).

Great Rao. Shouldn't this guy have been more upset when Superman has called upon heathen dieties that aren't YHWH? What a Moran.

@5 I know! It should've been "G-D". Can't forget the dash, right venomlash?

@3 - So I take it Superman should have said something like "Aw, fiddlesticks!"

"God damn it" is not a curse or taking the lord's name in vane, it's a prayer.

God damn it = Dear lord, please damn this to hell. Thanks.

See, so... uhm, yeah.

@8 Off subject, but there was a This American Life (I think? Some other similar program maybe.) episode about this.

I can't think of a more appropriate time to call out to the all-mighty then when caught in an explosion. If not then, when???

I once saw someone on the DragonFable bug report forum complaining about the use of "OMG" in game dialogue making the game less family-friendly.

To his credit, he also refuses to carry books that use the word "kinGDom," has surgically removed his amyGDala and he's never traveled to oGDen. And you know he's never asking about any country's GDP. Gotta stay consistent yo.

I bet he doesn't carry Battle Pope, either.
http://www.comicvine.com/battle-pope-bat…

@16 - I will now forever think of the GDP as the God Damn Product.

And have you ever watched Eureka? The company on that show, General Dynamics or whatever, is always referred to as GD, so when they talk about "GD projects" or "GD headquarters" or "GD employees", I snicker every time.

oh apparenlty all is well in his little iditot-dom. From his Fb:
"Thank you Grant Morrison. The boycott is lifted. Once again my apologies to Grant for the unwarranted name calling. Thank you to those who supported my stance. To those who didn't... I respect your opinions. To those who only posted to bash Christians and people with opinions different from yours... grow up and get a life."

Matt,

Help you with what? I think you know this guy is being silly and cutting his own profits. I agree. In all my reading I have never come across "GD" to understand why his knickers have become twisted.

The Bible describes God or G-d as being omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient so I can't comprehend why someone would feel the need to "defend" God by rejecting a comic book. Nor do I have any ability to know what God does or does not think, want, wish.... If one goes to the Bible on can find scripture that proclaims what God requires and what God hates.

Micah 6:8
He has showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.

Proverbs 6:16-19
There are six things that the LORD hates, seven that are detestable to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are quick to rush into evil, a false witness who pours out lies and a man who stirs up dissension among brothers.

Matthew 22: 36-40
"Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?" Jesus replied: "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."

Those are all from the NIV version, and there are some who believe only the King James version is correct. They may and are welcome to disagree. Then again there are some Christians who don't believe God to be a supernatural being that pronounces judgement, or can be supplicated into action on a believers behalf. Those type of Christians tend to think God is the force that creates the universe, and is still creating it. And others believe everything is God breathed, even if they cherry pick which things they follow. I imagine you would get a different answer, because the term Christian is broad and diverse. Of course many would tell you that their definition of what it means to be a Christian is the "correct" one. Speaking of those types, John Shore had the silly response to the demand that he relinquish the word Christian. He said, "I refuse to relinquish the name 'Christian' to people who can't tell the message of Christ from the sound of their own farts."

In short, Matt, I can't help you. I'm inclined to think that the answer lies within you and it will be correct for you. And it is only my suggestion, but I think the honorable response to the answer is to live it fully with integrity and to treat others as you would wish them to treat you. In the end isn't that what you want to be known for, having lived your life with integrity and being known for your compassion and kindness to others? That is my hope anyway.

Take care.

Thanks for that, Kim.

christian comic book store owners exist? and sell something other than chick tracts? I'm stunned.

I can see why a Christian would have trouble differentiating a comic book fiction (or even understanding it) from fact. I mean, come on, he's living his life based on a ancient fictionalized account of history.

Um...guys...Superman is an alien from planet Krypton. God is pretty moot at this point.

Unless Superman worships "the New Gods," Krypton seems to have done away with religion millenia ago.

What a baby.