Wednesday, December 01, 2010

CBR Review: Wolverine: The Best There Is #1

I recently reviewed Wolverine: The Best There Is #1 for CBR and, in the process, wrote the following sentences: "The cover to Wolverine: The Best There Is #1 has a big warning: 'Parental Advisory! Not for kids!' with ‘not’ underlined. An early preview for this issue has almost two pages completely censored for being ‘too violent.’ And, yet, there’s something desperate and sad about the attempts to convince people that this Wolverine title is ‘extreme’ and ‘disturbing’ when so many measures are taken inside to keep it tame enough, because, obviously, a Wolverine comic can’t be too ‘mature.’ I mean, they even censor the word ‘ass.’ How ‘unsuitable’ can a comic that censors the word ‘ass’ be?"

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