WTF: Do you think Dusty the Delta Air Lion deserved such a grisly end in the child's in-flight magazine?

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This is Dusty, the Delta Air Lion. You might remember him from when you were a kid. What you might not know is that he's still around - or at least he was until the most recent issue of Horizons for Kids, Delta's official in-flight magazine for kids ages 3 - 12. It appears that Delta is retiring the character, but rather than quietly removing him from their marketing materials, they created a 12-page illustrated comic where Dusty is shot to death by trophy hunters after flying home (on Delta, of course) to visit his family in Nairobi.

As if that weren't bad enough, the last four pages are a grisly, detailed retelling of poor Dusty's trip to the taxidermist. The sad saga ends with a seemingly-out-of-nowhere admonition for the magazine's young readers to always follow safety instructions from their flight attendants. The final panel of the comic contains no dialogue - just a view of Dusty's head mounted over some billionaire's fireplace, his eyes glazed and his jaw slack.

So what do you think? Was this an appropriate way to end Dusty the Delta Air Lion's tenure as the face of the airline's youth outreach, or do you think the big sonofabitch had it a long time coming? Sound off in the comments below!
 
I think this is a great opportunity to teach children about disabilities. Dusty "lives" on, just in a different way. The billionaire's housekeeper is beyond lazy so, now his name even makes sense.
 
I think it's grrrrrreat!
If you are going to rip off Tony, you had better offer a better bowl of cereal. Especially at 40,000 feet.
 
Good news! Horizons for Kids caved to public pressure and brought Dusty back! Granted, he looks a little worse for the wear now, as the illustrators chose to portray him as a reanimated corpse. His terrifying desiccated visage and wordless high-pitched screaming now fill the pages of the childrens' magazine as Dusty tries in vain to satiate his relentless undead bloodlust.

However, not all passengers are happy with Dusty's new look. Terms used to describe the Air Lion's return include "grotesque", "nightmarish", and "oddly arousing". Still, we're just happy to see our flying four-legged jungle cat back in the sky. What do you think? Sound off in the comments below!

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Frosted Flakes, Iron Maiden's mascot. What will this Dusty cat rip off next?
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Your "summary" of the story left out the heavily substantiated allegations made against Dusty throughout his career, as well as his long-running connections to elements of the criminal underworld.
 
Male lions like Dusty regularly band together, inveigle their way into a female-dominated pride, and proceed to murder all the infants so that the females are more likely to have sex with them. This is an important first step in smashing the Leo-patriachy.
 
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