DC postpones release of Batman Incorporated #3 following shootings

'I personally think it's silly. Not many fans would have gotten the issue and said, 'well, in light of recent events this shouldn't have been published!' It's like DC is taking the blame for something that's really not their problem, and it bothers me greatly.'

It's not 'taking the blame,' it's being sensitive to a national incident. It's a delay of one month to not shove it in peoples' faces.

This is the first Batman comic to hit the stands since the Aurora incident, it's absolutely not in DC's best interests to have people potentially coming in to stores to try Batman because of the new film and having their first experience involve an incident similar to the one that just happened in the theater.

We know as long term comic book fans that it's just an unfortunate coincidence, but after the Limbaugh garbage, we know that's not how the media thinks. It would come off as insensitive and in poor taste and it's smart of DC to curtail that possibility by moving it.

'Understandable that they'd want to appear sensitive to recent events. I just hope that DC will not make any move to censor or alter any books. I think it would only act as an admission that fiction really does influence crazy behavior. Once start to work under that kind of mind set, it begins a slippery slope towards creators and editors second guessing every element of their stories ' a catastrophic move in the long run.'

That's not the case at all, it's simply a move to avoid bad press and in an industry that's floundering, you avoid bad press like the plague.

This isn't exactly unprecedented. Sony had to entirely yank a Spider-Man teaser way back when because of the 9/11 attacks. One of the first trailers for the film had Spider-Man catching a helicopter between the WTC towers and it was yanked because of the 9/11 attacks.