Posted on 09/10/2008 1:16:05 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
We always knew Batgirl was a dirty, dirty girl, but we were shocked at just how dirty her mouth turned out to be in "All Star Batman And Robin The Boy Wonder" #10".
The comic was printed with black bars over offending curse words, but the ink was too light to actually cover the offensive language, meaning comic readers could see lines like these (but without the stars):
And more! Batgirl herself says
Pretty badass, but too much for the comic's readers. DC ordered the offending copies destroyed as opposed to sold. (Dear comic book collectors, get them!)
We're surprised that this panel from an early 50s Batman book wasn't censored.
Someone doesn't know how to read comics. Was the bad guys using the c word, not batgirl. Okay Batgirl did call them a**holes in the narrative.
But, but, everybody says it. I am sure there are four instances of it in speaking clips from Congressmen. So what is all the fuss about.
Not as bad as “Ward, you were awfully hard on the Beaver last night!”................
Instead of printing it, then printing it again to cover the offensive words, why not print it the first time without the words?
Why not write it without the bad words, and when the author puts them in, someone says, we don’t publish stuff like what you wrote, do it again without the unnecessary foul language?
It would be simpler.
“but the ink was too light to actually cover the offensive language”
Um, they use computers now to “letter” comic books and there are plenty of # * ! @ keystrokes. So why did the writer (or artist) believe that these words would go into print for a general audience comic book?
I suspect this is a publicity stunt. Fell just weeks short of banned book week.
Back in the “olden days” when words weren’t hijacked by the alternative lifestyle people or the prurient, a “boner” meant, man, I really did something stupid.
You do realize that comic books today are not kiddie fair? A cheap comic book is $3 a pop. Most folks who are reading them are males in their 20s and thirties, not kids like it used to be. They have priced themselves out of that market.
What I don’t understand is: if the comic book is for adults why black out the ‘bad words’ in the first place? And, alternatively, if the comic book is for “all ages” why include them in the script if they were going to get censored after the fact?
That’s hysterical!
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