I See Parker’s Peter
- Posted by Johanna on December 7, 2006 at 7:17 am
- Category: Comic News
In Spider-Man: Reign #1, there’s a particular panel that’s causing some retailer concern: it shows what appears to be Peter Parker sitting naked on the edge of a bed. The “dangly bits” are cartoony, but any suggestion of nudity in a superhero book is enough to get retailers in some sections of the US in deep trouble if sold to the wrong family.
Reportedly, this was one of those “it was fixed but the previous art got mistakenly sent to the printer” situations. Regardless, Marvel has made the issue returnable. It’ll be interesting to see whether this gets reprinted, and if so, whether this panel is changed.
Christopher Butcher has more thoughts, including a quick survey of nudity in recent comics. And Graeme McMillan reviews the comic itself as a Dark Knight Returns ripoff.
December 7, 2006 at 12:17 pm
They’ve clearly lost the plot over there at Marvel. Good god.
December 7, 2006 at 2:35 pm
Marvel has already announced plans to reprint in which the “error” will be removed, saying that they sold well on the regular print, plus this way retaiers who have a problem selling the current Full Monty version can get a “fixed” copy.
December 7, 2006 at 3:34 pm
“a shadow” SNORT.
December 8, 2006 at 9:24 pm
…A shadow of its former self?
Predicting “Penis-Free Variant” in the next few weeks.
December 9, 2006 at 1:45 pm
I think I was more distracted by how much of a Dark Knight rip-off this story is.