Dear DC Comics, Please hire some proofreaders

1 February 2013 Rob Buckley TMINE 2 Comments

I’ll do it for you if you pay me. I mean, let’s start with this week’s Catwoman #16. How are we spelling ‘assault’ here?

Catwoman #16

Okay, that’s just a relatively minor problem compared to some of the other typos in this week’s comics. Let’s move on to Aquaman #16. I appreciate Mera and Arthur (aka Aquaman) are underwater, but I really don’t think that’s the effect you’re trying to achieve in spelling your main character’s name wrong.

Aruthur

And then lastly, we have this in this week’s Superman #16. As if to add further insult to the injury of her being described as merely Superman’s ‘current lover’ in the next panel (yet more rebellion by Superman’s writers? The suggestion that it’s not going to last?), veering away from current DC shorthand (“the living goddess Wonder Woman”), we have Wonder Woman described as ‘Prince Diana of the Amazons’.

Prince, FFS.

Diana, Prince of the Amazons

DC – I know comics are a somewhat juvenile medium, but that doesn’t mean you have to spell like teenagers, too. Hire some proofreaders – it’s not like there’s much text for them to read, so it should be relatively cheap.

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    I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.

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