you're toast

[realthog]

PC publishers ban dragon from breathing fire in children's book . . . because it's too dangerous 

runs the headline over a Daily Mail article by Kurt Bayer and James Tapper. The Mail isn't a newspaper to which I ever pay much attention (a friend directed me towards this piece), because, well, it's sort of the printed equivalent of Faux News. In this instance, though, it does seem -- unless the artist/author concerned is flat-out lying, which is improbable -- to have a point.

For the full story, rush to http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=494755&in_page_id=1770, but don't tell them I sent you.

Comments

Dragon Fire

[pds-lit.livejournal.com]

What? Were the itty-bitty publisher's scared of a small roly-poly cartoon dragon breathing fire? Right. As if I in my younger years jumped off a cliff because the Coyote did.

Re: Dragon Fire

[realthog.livejournal.com]

I'm reminded of those little parodic moments in the old Batman tv series, when Batman & Robin would be walking up the side of a building, or something equally impossible, and one of them would turn to the cameras and say, "Don't try this at home, kids."

Like all those child readers are going to rush out, find a dragon, and burn themselves on it . . .