Quote: Snapman said: Also keep in mind, Dave, which comics contain implied or explicit rape scenes:
Watchmen Killing Joke (according to some people) Authority
They weren't significant parts of the story and, granted, they were aimed at a mature audience, but they WERE mainstream superhero comics and available to most comic buyers like Identity Crisis. This is nothing new.
1. Killing Joke wasn't obvious, if indeed it occurred.
2. Authority was censored: the scenes with the Commander undoing his fly and then doing up his fly were removed.
3. And then there is Watchmen. There are a variety of excuses, I suppose: Watchmen did not have a graphic, prolonged rape scene in the same way as Dr Light's rape of Sue Dibney was prolonged; Watchmen was not really mainstream because it did not have DC's main characters in it - the main hook for teenaged readers; Watchmen has so many other redeeming features anyone is inclined to forgive Alan Moore for it. But yes, I concede, there was Watchmen.
