Interesting article suggesting that the skull image has lost it's edge and is now the happy face of the 2000s: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/27/fashi ... ted=1&8dpc
There was a booth at SDCC that had alot of what appeared (from afar) to be day of the dead realted items. masks and what not...So I stroll over to look. ALL the skulls looked "happy"...smiling happy skulls BLOW.