Broken Tail

Holy crap, three posts in one month?!?!? Yeah, what can I say. This is something that sometimes happens to us letterers (well, it happens to me sometimes), but it's usualy caught at some point before the book is printed or otherwise published. To this letterer's (and editors, etc) credit, the lost balloon tail is white on stormtrooper armor, so it's not that easy to spot.

  

(From Star Wars: Purge - The Tyrant's First 2 of 2, letterer Michael Heisler.)

This is a job for... MacGyver!

The first typo was, well, passable off as a typo. The second one? Sorry, not even MacGyver can save you now, Mr. Zlotoff

(From MacGyver: Fugitive Gauntlet 03 of 05, writer Lee David Zlotoff.)

"Mutanism"? WHAT?

I guess, since he's a geneticist, you can call Charles Xavier a "biophysicist". But "mutanism"? Someone should tell writer Simon Spurrier (X-Men Legacy V2 #2) that's not a word.

Great, let's just call Emporer Palpatine and Rouge now.

Wow, I'm back! Don't get used to it, there are not going to be regular posts on this blog for the foreseeable future. However, I just read something that made me come out of the shadows. Please, look at this, from Superman Beyond #10 (a digital first book put out by DC that chronicles Superman's adventures in the Batman Beyond future):

"Luther"? Really? This is Lex Luthor we're talking about. Superman's archenemy. Perhaps writer JT Krul has heard about him... now, as a letterer, even if we do copy/paste from a script (I mean how we use the script, not how we do our actual work) I sometimes correct small spelling mistakes I see. I understand how, perhaps being overworked, letterer Saida Temofonte didn't spot that either.

Yes, MS Word suggests "Luther" as a spelling correction to "Luthor", I don't know how it works in the scriptwriting software Krul uses. But I can't believe Sarah Litt (assistant editor), Kwanza Johnson & Ben Abernathy (editors) didn't catch it either when they read the script or finished issue. Or any of the proofreaders DC might have.

Really, "Luther"?