miscoloring

One of the somewhat-clever plot points of the story is in fact diluted by a miscoloring error.

Bully Says: Comics Oughta Be Fun! 2008

Some writers have passed very lightly over them; others, stating plain facts with a formal accuracy, have used their skill to give to the picture an untruthful miscoloring; two or three, instinct with the spirit of Zola, have made their sketch with plain unsparing realism in color as well as in lines, and so have brought upon themselves abuse, and perhaps have deserved much of it, by reason of a lack of skill in doing an unwelcome thing, or rather by reason of overdoing it.

Abraham Lincoln Morse, John T 1899

G.I. Joe has some problems with characters going off-model, mostly involving errors in costuming and miscoloring (some

Toon Zone News 2009