Books Robin Plasters on the Makeup Like a Trollop
posted by September 9 at 15:51 PM
onFunnybook Babylon has broken the story that DC comics tried to recall a comic book, All Star Batman & Robin the Boy Wonder # 10, because the black bars that were printed over swears in word balloons were see-through. This means you could see words like “fucking” and “dickwad” and this one, which a criminal says about Batgirl:
This is the same Batman comic book that had the following panel, which has become quite the joke in the comics community:
Goddamn right.
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By God, I hope you've seen this then:
http://sigma7.livejournal.com/642085.html
That never stops being funny.
can't read it. next.
"I'm the Juggernaut, bitch!"
Why the hell would they actually print the words in the first place? Why not just print the black bar?
Seems to me they were tempting fate, and fate bit them in the ass.
And then the goddamn Batman had his way with Robin. . .
According to Heidi McDonald at THE BEAT, Miller requested that the do it that way.
Clarification: in response to #5. Not #6.
So has no one over there at DC heard of a proof run? Those usually come in handy for spotting mistakes before you start mass production...
Here's Heidi's update with Nat Gertler's speculation on the production error:
http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/09/09/all-star-batmans-bad-language/
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