Sacramento Kings Make the Past New Again

Essentially claiming Sacramento as my "home" town means I get to suffer through each bizarre Kings personnel decision after another until they drive their talented (and mercurial) big man away.

But until then, they have updated their logo, and that gives us something to talk about that isn't Mad Vivek and his Love of the Big-Man.

Personally, I think this was a safe move. They chose the '80s shape with the later color scheme, mostly:

I like it. I do like the blue and red better, but that's me. You get the crown, you get the basketball, you get the legacy, as this was ultimately inspired by the old Rochester Royals logo from the '50s...

Well, that may be a stretch to make that claim. The shape is ultimately there, but it wasn't until Cincinnati that the old Kings logo I grew up with in Sac came about:

Then they moved to KC and became the Kings, seeing as how there already was a Royals team. But they spent their first two years split between KC and Omaha.

Can you imagine an NBA franchise in today's world split between two cities nearly two hundred miles apart?

Anyway, here's a cool alternate for next season:

DC Comics Updates Logo with Rebirth Launch

DC Comics has commenced a company-wide relaunch called Rebirth. The company claims to be returning to their roots with many of the characters that they changed in the last few company-wide shakeups over the last five to ten years, and fans seem happy? Maybe? I'm not exactly sure how fans feel.

I know that the DCU Rebirth issue kicking off the event sold very well and was generally well received. It has gone into multiple printings.

Anyway, the company updated their logo again, and here the fans seem underwhelmed. I think it will grow on fans until they grow to really like it, at which point, in four or five years, DC will change it again. Fans had just grown to like the "flipped-page" logo. Go figure.

Sometimes changes are necessary, sometimes they're forced.

Here's a graphic of the many DC Comics logos over the years. The one labeled 1976 is the one with which I have the most collecting experience: