Slog - Comments on Robin Plasters on the Makeup Like a Trollop http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/robin_plasters_on_the_makeup_like_a_trol Funnybook 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.... Copyright 2008 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 15:51:43 -0800 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:40:24 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Gloria By God, I hope you've seen this then:

http://sigma7.livejournal.com/642085.html

]]> Gloria http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/robin_plasters_on_the_makeup_like_a_trol#c1133898 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/robin_plasters_on_the_makeup_like_a_trol#c1133898 Books Tue, 09 Sep 2008 15:54:12 -0800 Comment by EmilyP That never stops being funny.

]]> EmilyP http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/robin_plasters_on_the_makeup_like_a_trol#c1133921 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/robin_plasters_on_the_makeup_like_a_trol#c1133921 Books Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:01:21 -0800 Comment by cochise. can't read it. next.

]]> cochise. http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/robin_plasters_on_the_makeup_like_a_trol#c1133926 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/robin_plasters_on_the_makeup_like_a_trol#c1133926 Books Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:04:19 -0800 Comment by Ivan Cockrum "I'm the Juggernaut, bitch!"

]]> Ivan Cockrum http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/robin_plasters_on_the_makeup_like_a_trol#c1133927 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/robin_plasters_on_the_makeup_like_a_trol#c1133927 Books Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:05:20 -0800 Comment by UNPAID BLOGGER 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.

]]> UNPAID BLOGGER http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/robin_plasters_on_the_makeup_like_a_trol#c1133949 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/robin_plasters_on_the_makeup_like_a_trol#c1133949 Books Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:14:40 -0800 Comment by Balt-O-Matt And then the goddamn Batman had his way with Robin. . .

]]> Balt-O-Matt http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/robin_plasters_on_the_makeup_like_a_trol#c1133969 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/robin_plasters_on_the_makeup_like_a_trol#c1133969 Books Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:25:44 -0800 Comment by chuchu According to Heidi McDonald at THE BEAT, Miller requested that the do it that way.

]]> chuchu http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/robin_plasters_on_the_makeup_like_a_trol#c1133984 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/robin_plasters_on_the_makeup_like_a_trol#c1133984 Books Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:32:46 -0800 Comment by chuchu Clarification: in response to #5. Not #6.

]]> chuchu http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/robin_plasters_on_the_makeup_like_a_trol#c1133987 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/robin_plasters_on_the_makeup_like_a_trol#c1133987 Books Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:34:11 -0800 Comment by UNPAID BLOGGER 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...

]]> UNPAID BLOGGER http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/robin_plasters_on_the_makeup_like_a_trol#c1133993 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/robin_plasters_on_the_makeup_like_a_trol#c1133993 Books Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:36:34 -0800 Comment by chuchu 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/

]]> chuchu http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/robin_plasters_on_the_makeup_like_a_trol#c1134004 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/robin_plasters_on_the_makeup_like_a_trol#c1134004 Books Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:40:24 -0800