Amusing anecdote about comics syndicate "rules" and how silly it is when you get around them, via Scott Adams.
The problem is that there's an unwritten rule in newspaper comics that you can't show a gun being fired. I knew that, but my editor was new on the job and I thought it was the perfect time to try and slip one through. But his alert assistant thwarted my plan and brought it to the attention of an informal committee of executives to decide how to handle it. The group ruled that the gun could not be shown. The concept of a peace officer gunning down an unarmed suspect was okay, but I couldn't show the actual gun firing.
So rather than a gun ...
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