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Ali T. Kokmen on Comics Is Strange
posted September 11, 2008
 

At http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/random_comics_news_story_round_up0911081/ , you'd commented about the recent issue with the visibile profanity in a recent DC Comics comic book, mentioning that folks should take a moment to contemplate "how printing a word and then putting a block over it is totally freaking weird beyond anything any of us has ever heard before."

Setting aside any discussion as to what the creators and publishers were trying to accomplish (or the seemingly botched execution thereof) and as, I suppose, a historical footnote, I'd just comment that the concept of printing a word with the intent to also render it illegible it print seems no intrinsically weirder than, say, tearing a cover corner of an entire print run of comics, then inserting the torn pieces back into the comics (not necessarily matching up the torn pieces from the actual issue they were torn from) as was legendarily done with an issue of RAW way back when.

As you say, comics is strange.