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Listening to iFanboy, Connor mention that James Robinson had the President Bush meet with the new Kryptoians. Problem is, DC not in the real universe and President Bush isn't the president there.

What exactly is an editors responsibilities at DC?

Skyhawke wrote:Listening to iFanboy, Connor mention that James Robinson had the President Bush meet with the new Kryptoians. Problem is, DC not in the real universe and President Bush isn't the president there.

What exactly is an editors responsibilities at DC?

Interesting. I haven't gotten that issue yet.

Apparently some of the editors at DC are not reading the other comics publishing in the same narrative universe as the ones they are editing...

This is absolutely ridiculous.

Koete wrote:This is absolutely ridiculous.

Damn. This is like an English pop quiz. I wonder how bad I did:

1: "striken" should be replaced by "struck"
2: "that" should have been "than"
3: the periods should be commas and the word "And" should not have been capitalized.
4: "all action-adventure" should be "all-action adventure" (I'll be honest and say I'm not 100% sure about this one.)

For those mistakes to have seen print, they had to get past the letterer, the assistant editor and the editor at the very least.

How common are these kinds of mistakes?

I think they occur from time to time, but in nowhere near this number in the same volume. The other recent occurrence that comes to mind is the misspelled title on the spine of the last Powers TPB.

Koete wrote:I think they occur from time to time, but in nowhere near this number in the same volume. The other recent occurrence that comes to mind is the misspelled title on the spine of the last Powers TPB.

I heard about that. I can kind of understand this sort of thing from a smaller publisher but Marvel and DC are big enough shops that they ought to have someone on staff looking over everything that can't not notice these things.

Wow, I just noticed another error. Look at the sentence above the three stars at the bottom.

These editors are the equivalent of office supervisors? The errors documented remind me of a battle I have often with including "That the..." in an official document to be mailed. WTF!!??!?

A moron may speak by saying "That the..." but only an "office supervisor" would have you change a letter to include "that the..."

Why didn't DC have Clark Kent proof read? Just asking.

Marvel's editor must be either the Sentry or the Void, get rid of either everything in the 616 will be back to normal. Including a Green Hulk with purple pants.

Koete wrote:Wow, I just noticed another error. Look at the sentence above the three stars at the bottom.

It was funny last month when it was the Marvel Previews catalog, but this is just sad.

Wow, I just noticed another error. Look at the sentence above the three stars at the bottom.

Just wow. All of the errors, IMO, seem to fall well within the area I would believe the purpose of even having an editor to be.

I certainly understand that mistakes and errors do happen, but when it is jarring enough to take me out of the story, that is when I become frustrated.

In Immortal Iron Fist #19 there's a panel with Danny and Misty riding together in a limo holding hands and somehow the colors got switched confusted. Misty's hand is white and Danny's hand is black.

Made me go "Wait a minute...".

Batman #684, (story)page seven. Commissioner Gordon and Bullock are leaving Gordon's office when the phone rings. Bullock asks Gordon if he wants him to get it, with Gordon responding that he'll take it. Nothing really out of the ordinary...except that there's no "Ring! Ring!" sound effect.

I've noticed a few books where the word balloons are pointing to the wrong characters. Seen this seems like at least once a month in the last 3 or 4 months.

Some of the Shadowline books have obvious misspellings, missing words, etc. I guess I give them more of break because they are indie and probably don't really pay editors.

Atomic Robo: Dogs of War #5. Page 4. "Material" misspelled as "materiel".

Koete wrote:Atomic Robo: Dogs of War #5. Page 4. "Material" misspelled as "materiel".

Ha! I saw that the other day as well.