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Riddle me this, Batman - If you’re going to write a scene full of curse words that you know will have to be edited out later, why would you bother to write them?  Why not use use #$&^$ or S— or some other means of implying the cussage without actually writing it?  Until this past week, most people would probably have told you that it doesn’t matter whether you write the cuss words out or not, as long as they are covered up in the end.  How wrong most people were.

In case you’ve been on Thanagar or Tamaran for the last week, Al-Star Batman #10 included some not-so-covered up curses that caused DC to recall the issues as soon as they were sent out.  It certainly has people talking, and not just comic book geeks like yours truly.  The censor oversight has caught on in the mainstream media.  So, riddle me this, Batman: is a screw up that brings heightened interest to the industry really a screw up?

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