PULP FICTION (HA HA I BET NO ONE USED THAT PUN YET, RIGHT?)

So the Ridiculous News that DC Comics pulped an issue of All-Star Batman because it accidentally printed naughty words in such a way that people could >gasp< read them, has led Rich Johnston (comics' own hard-hitting gossip columnist) to uncover two other recent instances of books being pulped. One was a Superman comic which showed Clark Kent drinking a beer (...seriously?) and another portrayed a fictional female GOP candidate's whose image was deemed a little too close for legal comfort to Condoleeza Rice. And of course, we all remember Paul Levitz's past Adventures In Putting His Own Books In The Shredder (One of Alan Moore's books for a completely stupid reason, a book with a Kyle Baker story for a mostly stupid reason).

I don't know about anyone else, and I certainly don't know what actually goes on behind the closed doors of DC Comics, but right now I'm just enjoying the idea that DC's editors apparently are sequestered in a room at the end of the printing press assembly line. There, after the writers and artists and colorists and letterers and digital layout guys have put the comic together with no oversight whatsoever, the printed comics are delivered to them, and they flip them open with some horrible trepidation. And then one of them sees the word "cunt", or a beer bottle in Superman's hand, and just flips the fuck out. "Goddamnit," he screams, "destroy them all! Why oh why do we all sit at the end of the printing press and look at these things AFTER they're printed? ISN'T THERE A BETTER WAY?"

Just the fact that DC is becoming the company specializing in creating product that they then have to destroy themselves...cracks me the fuck up. Oh, whoops, forgot the black bar on that "fuck". PULP THE INTERNET!




OFFICIAL DC EDITORIAL GUIDELINES

Bloody corpse of Robin
PUBLISH THAT SUCKER!

Robin saying "Fuck"
KILLITKILLITKILLIT!

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