According to Newsarama's report, Wayne told retailers from the ComicsPRO trade organization that,

...DC will be instituting a new review period for all of its books between printing and shipping to retailers in order to thoroughly check for and prevent such errors from happening again in the future.

Doesn't that just mean that someone's actually going to perform a quality control check on the final printed comics? Isn't that something that you would have assumed was already being done (or not, considering)? That's not the only (admittedly, with the benefit of hindsight) no-brainer that's been announced a policy change as a result of the recent mistake:

Additionally, Wayne said that, in the case of blocking objectionable words with black bars, DC will no longer print the curse word underneath the black bar, opting to now make the bar roughly the length of the letters that the word would have been.

So now you have it - The chance of seeing Superman telling Jimmy Olsen to turn that motherfucking signal watch off before he gets a headache, cocksucking retard, just became that much more remote. Sadly.

DC Responds to All Star Batman & Robin #10 Flap [Newsarama]

Earlier this week, comic retailers were notified that all copies of All Star Batman And Robin that they receive in this week's shipments were to be destroyed instead of placed on sale. No futher explanation was forthcoming - until someone got a hold of a copy, and discovered that a problem with self-censorship had accidentally created a comic too dirty to be sold. But just how dirty can a Batman comic be?

Comic Book Resources' Rich Johnston explained the problem with the latest issue of Sin City creator Frank Miller's controversial Batman series:

Certain examples of obscene language in the book were, as has happened in the title before, blacked out, sometimes with little bits of the letters sticking out to give a clue as to what they may have been.

Except in the printing process, the lettering was of a richer black that the bars, rendering the blacking out pointless.

He also provided examples of the dialogue that was suddenly legible, including this from the teenaged Batgirl:

Text every friend you've got, shitheads— Sell your poison somewhere else. This arcade belongs to the fucking Batgirl.

(For fans of the "c" word, don't worry; that makes appearances as well.)

It's hard to work out what the biggest surprise is in this situation: That they actually put in all those words in the first place as opposed to some placeholders, or that the faulty comics somehow passed the quality control in DC and made it all the way to stores before someone noticed what had gone wrong? The real question now, of course, isn't either of those, but how expensive these defective copies will end up on eBay.

Wash Your Mouth Out With Batsoap [Comic Book Resources]