"Too Violent To Show" Parodies

Did you guys see the preview for the first issue of Ultimate Comic Avengers 3? It's by Mark Millar and Steve Dillon, and you will notice that in every page there's a black bar with a notice "Too Violent To Show" in red, like the one you see above. We don't know if the preview just had to hide some juicy bits, if the script called for this, if artist Steve Dillon was running late, or if this is some kind of protest on Millar's side for some reason. In any case, we here at TWC central loved the idea, and thought that more comics should use this technique. Don't think so? Hit the jump and I'll convince you.

Here's one of the original pages, in case you didn't bother to click the link to the preview.

But how would this technique work if we applied it to other Mark Millar comics? Say for example The Authority...

Or how about one of Millar's more popular works, Civil War?

Or perhaps something a bit more recent, like Old Man Logan?

You know, it's just not the same. Let's try it with some very memorable scenes from other comics. Watchmen, for example. (um, spoilers, I guess, if you haven't read the 20 year old book)

Or how about this other famous scene from Killing Joke?

Or perhaps from the pages of Sin City?

Or how about everyone's favorite scene from Justice League?

Perhaps it works better in the context of some more modern comics, like say, Astonishing X-Men.

 Or maybe something more serious like Powers?
 

That Thor guy is pretty popular nowadays, how about one of his comics?

Everyone loves a good team-up, right? How about this page from Marvel Team-Up?

Or how about those ever popular event comics, like Infinite Crisis?

Or the hyper-violent Blackest Night?

Mmm, not quite the same is it? I think this calls for a shift of tone. How about we try it for something like Runaways?

 Or we could go one step further and use it for Marvel Adventures: Avengers.

I think we are getting warmer to the perfect usage of this technique. You know what book would really benefit from this little banner? Shazam: The Monster Society of Evil.

There you go! Nothing like Captain Marvel inflicting righteous retribution upon talking crocodiles for doing things so unspeakably violent to little kids that the publisher could not even show it to you (and the little girl falling in love with him because of it)

What comic scenes do you think would have benefited from the "Too Violent To Show" banner? Let us know in the comments section, and you can even play along at home using the banner at the top of the page. Just copy and paste, and show us the results.

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