Comics Code Dead 316
tverbeek writes "After more than half a century of stifling the comic book industry, the Comics Code Authority is effectively dead. Created in response to Fredric Wertham's Seduction of the Innocent, one of the early think-of-the-children censorship campaigns, and Congressional hearings, the Code laid out a checklist of requirements and restrictions for comics to be distributed to newsstand vendors, effectively ensuring that in North America, only simplistic stories for children would be told using the medium of sequential art. It gradually lost many of its teeth, and an increasing number of publishers gave up on newsstand distribution and ignored the Code, but at the turn of the century the US's largest comics publishers still participated. Marvel quit it in 2001, in favor of self-applied ratings styled after the MPAA's and ESRB's. Last year Bongo (publishers of the Simpsons comics) quietly dropped out. Now DC and Archie, the last publishers willingly subjecting their books to approval, have announced that they're discontinuing their use of the CCA, with DC following Marvel's example, and Archie (which recently introduced an openly gay supporting character, something flatly forbidden by the original Code) carrying on under their own standards. The Code's cousins — the MPAA and ESRB ratings, the RIAA parental advisory, and the mishmash of warnings on TV shows — still live on, but at least North American comic publishers are no longer subject to external censorship."
Re:what? (Score:4, Funny)
But they ARE monsters!
Why, they are just as bad as left-handed people.
Re:what? (Score:2, Funny)
NOOOOoooooooo....I'm a left handed ginger!
(Really, I am)
At least you're not gay.
or ARE you?
*dun dun DUN*
Well it's about damn time. (Score:4, Funny)
Comics Code is NOT dead (Score:5, Funny)
Just wait until the next issue when they realize that Comics Code was *NOT* dead, but instead placed in suspended animation when his arch nemesis switched the translator module causing a brain cascade failure... And in all that time, Comics Code was in an alternate reality, getting stronger, leveling up....
Next issue.. Comics Code returns!
Re:True in theory (Score:5, Funny)
Cut him some slack, he just arrived from 1986.
Re:True in theory (Score:3, Funny)
Bedknobs and Broomsticks.
That's fucking disgusting. Get out of here with your pornographic filth.
Re:True in theory (Score:4, Funny)
Cut him some slack, he just arrived from 1986.
0-88mph takes 25 years in a DeLorean? Sounds about right...