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Re: Comics Code Authority

Posted By: MACK!
Date: SUN, 6/3/01, 4:01 a.m.

In Response To: Comics Code Authority (Jim Burdo)

: David, you've probably heard that Marvel Comics is
: dropping out of the Comics Code. As a creator, do you
: have any opinion on this?

My opinion is that is sounds like a great idea.

When you were either writing
: or drawing Daredevil, did you feel constrained by it?

In my DD run, I think that Kingpin used the work "bastard" in one of his rants. Marvel said that the code might have a problem with that word and that I should maybe change the word. I didn't change it and the code didn't seem care or to notice.

However When Bendis used the word in one of his DD issues the code fined Marvel for it.

I guess that Marvel just got sick of being arbitrarily fined and decided to just not deal with the code at all. I'm sure it saves them a lot of hassle, time and money.
And I can't think of anyway that the code was actually helping.

: (I noticed you duplicated the property of Elektra's
: sais that they can go through people but not clothes.

Pretty much the only referenced of Elektra in my run are direct flashbacks that Ben has of his experience with her.
So I just wanted those scenes to stay consistent with his history.

: Frank Miller always thought that was funny when he
: drew it. Aren't sais blunt, anyway?)

The sais that I've seen are blunt at the end. I've never seen a "needle tipped" sai in real life and I remember thinking about that when I saw some in comics that way.

: Jim B

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