It's definitely not white-washing for the movie, if this is from the Hawk and Dove series that I think it's from. That series came out over thirteen years ago, and it's extremely unlikely anyone was thinking Waller would ever end up in a movie back then. So, unless this isn't from that series, there's not a movie connection at all.
Looking at it, and man, does it make me queasy to see this, my first thought was, "colorist mistake." It happens all the time. Part of the reason is where coloring happens on the assembly line of comics...it's one of the very last steps before an issue goes to print, so if the issue is hot on the schedule, if the writer got late, so the penciller got late, so the inker got late, it's the colorist who has to stay up all night and jam the issue out to get it done in time for print. That means two things, less time for editors to get reference to colorists, and less time for the color work to be checked by all involved. I rarely get to check color before an issue goes to print even when a book is on time. And not all colorists are careful to read the script. Great colorists do, as a rule.
But looking at that page, I strongly suspect the artist is partially to blame here. Drawing the hair like that, so completely unlike Waller's traditional looks...I suspect that the colorist simply didn't get that that was supposed to be Waller. That looks like white people hair, and the colorist probably just made an assumption. It could be a lot of people sharing culpability, the writer could have been late, the editor could have been irresponsible...it's really hard to lay blame on one person without knowing for sure.
But the one thing that I feel fairly confident in saying is that unless the book came in SO hot that it couldn't be fixed in time, the editor definitely should have caught that glaring error. Comics are produces by numerous hands under constant deadline pressure, but this is a pretty painful example of what can happen when there isn't someone checking over every final page before print.
And of course, there's a whole other discussion that needs to keep taking place that somehow these things always always seem to default towards a Caucasian state, rather than any other ethnicity.
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Looking at it, and man, does it make me queasy to see this, my first thought was, "colorist mistake." It happens all the time. Part of the reason is where coloring happens on the assembly line of comics...it's one of the very last steps before an issue goes to print, so if the issue is hot on the schedule, if the writer got late, so the penciller got late, so the inker got late, it's the colorist who has to stay up all night and jam the issue out to get it done in time for print. That means two things, less time for editors to get reference to colorists, and less time for the color work to be checked by all involved. I rarely get to check color before an issue goes to print even when a book is on time. And not all colorists are careful to read the script. Great colorists do, as a rule.
But looking at that page, I strongly suspect the artist is partially to blame here. Drawing the hair like that, so completely unlike Waller's traditional looks...I suspect that the colorist simply didn't get that that was supposed to be Waller. That looks like white people hair, and the colorist probably just made an assumption. It could be a lot of people sharing culpability, the writer could have been late, the editor could have been irresponsible...it's really hard to lay blame on one person without knowing for sure.
But the one thing that I feel fairly confident in saying is that unless the book came in SO hot that it couldn't be fixed in time, the editor definitely should have caught that glaring error. Comics are produces by numerous hands under constant deadline pressure, but this is a pretty painful example of what can happen when there isn't someone checking over every final page before print.
And of course, there's a whole other discussion that needs to keep taking place that somehow these things always always seem to default towards a Caucasian state, rather than any other ethnicity.