The Goshdarn Batman
Have you read about this? All-Star Batman and Robin #10 was supposed to ship this week, but DC apparently recalled it before it could hit the stands. Why was it recalled, you might ask? Because it dropped the f-bomb.
The word was supposed to be masked by a dark black box, but when it hit the printers, somebody apparently didn’t have the tone dark enough, so you could still see what was written underneath. DC doesn’t mind a Batman who kills cops and kidnaps children, but when it comes to Batgirl saying the word, “fuck,” the line is drawn in the sand.
It’s unfortunate for DC, since ASSBAR is regularly one of their best selling comics. When the last issue shipped in February, it sold nearly 94,000 copies and came in ranked at number six for the month. So DC wasted a lot of copies, and now they’re going to have to fix the glitch and re-release it later this month.
Talk about a fuck up.
Oh, by the way, in case you’re a collector or just incredibly impatient, these things are going like hotcakes over on eBay.
I could be wrong but I read it was “cunt” and not “fuck”
Turns out it was both, actually.
I’m pretty sure this is a scheme to sell more. I mean, why would you pay to print a word in black and then pay extra to cover it? It just doesn’t make sense.
The latest Lying in the Gutters has a lot of updates — the language wasn’t the only thing sanitized in that issue, ASSBAR wasn’t the only book recalled, and evidence suggests this was not done intentionally.