Punisher Book Pulled in Singapore



This article about branches of Singapore's National Library pulling copies of Garth Ennis' The Punisher: Barracuda from its shelves after a parent complained manages to maintain an admirably semi-detached tone throughout. This may be because this seems like a simple shelving error rather than a giant scandal, or even one of those unfortunate events where a library wants to shelve something and a parent doesn't want them too. In fact, it seems like the library had no intention of shelving the book or any book like it. Further, it seems the error could have been avoided if someone had read the books, or at least paid attention to covers with explicit content warnings. So it seems to me more one of those "there it is" stories more than a "here it comes."
 
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