Damn. When it rains, it pours. Here's a great story (thanks, Richard from UNL!) about a parent reacting to finding a comic with implied nudity in it not by calling the store where the comic was purchased, but by immediately calling a news crew.
You gotta read the story linked to in the title of this post. It even has video! From the article:
"I seen the naked lady and I got mad." Ten year old Sheldyn Conley loves comic books but knew something was wrong when he opened "The Spectre." He says, "I just turned the page and I seen the naked ladies so I handed it to a grownup and said, 'Look at this.'"
While the parent may have been right to have worried about the nature of the comic in question, which she bought for her 10 yo son and wouldn't have been able to preview without taking it out of its packaging, why not go to the store rather than the local media, right? That's what the news crew did, and the manager of the store where the comic was purchased pulled the comics and said she'd alert her bosses about the problem.
Kudos to the kid for seeing something he didn't know how to deal with and seeking out adult guidance on the issue, though.
Side note: my oldest son is 4; my youngest is 2 and hasn't been weened yet. Their response to seeing the "naked lady," who had her "naughty bits" covered by steam, would not have been anger, rest assured. But, they are their father's sons. ;)
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