Cussing “Batman” issue hits mainstream media
“All-Star Batman & Robin” #10 hit the New York Times, New York Post, and FOXNews.com today. Check Newsarama for the full roundup.
The LA Times talks to Frank Miller for his take.
If you aren’t familiar with what happened, curse words in “All Star Batman & Robin” #10 were visible behind the black bars that were supposed to blot them out. DC discovered this after copies had been printed, but comics stores that get their comics early still got copies, and were asked to destroy them. Some decided to sell them instead, and as of yesterday they were selling for large sums on eBay.
My take on it is that it’s pretty much ridiculous, and the retailers selling them on eBay are giving kind of a black eye to comics retail, besides. But, I can’t really phrase it better than Tom Spurgeon at The Comics Reporter when he talks about how nuts this whole situation is.
“… printing a word and then putting a block over it is totally freaking weird beyond anything any of us has ever heard before and all other speculative threads should be stopped while we all sit around and marvel over the sublime goofiness of this practice. Is someone pulling our leg here? Because this sounds insane. Do they perhaps fully delineate Superman’s hogan and then draw his costume over it?”
– Matt Price
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It’s not a printing error. It’s an editorial one. In no way, shape, or form should that type of language been allowed in a Batman and Robin book.
Except it’s Frank Miller, so he gets away with it.
Comics take one step forward, two steps back.