“This is the first I’ve heard of it. I have no idea how this awful thing happened. It’s just one of those terrible and glorious things that happen time to time in publishing.”
– Frank Miller’s reaction on the All-Star Batman & Robin #10 printing error and recall.
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What ever happened to $&!%$?
Good point, Luke. This feels like it was a fabricated “accident” to me.
just release the title under the MAX imprint and get over it, geez.
woops, that’s another company. one that found a way to release super-hero ADULT title.
anyway, as i said, get over it.
it’s not exactly offensive to me, i couldn’t care less. and any kid reading frank miller stories probably uses those words anyway. i’m just wondering why the words were there at all. why not just the redacted black bar or the $%#&$?
Having read some about the reason for the black box over the letters (ie why have the letters at all) what is clear to me is that whoever was working on the pages used RGB, which is fine on a screen, when they should have used CMYK. I can only imagine they gave it to someone new who didn’t have experience with the difference.