Here’s the official statement from CEO David Steinberger about the ban: The book has since returned to ComiXology’s iOS stores. “Fiona and I could always edit the images in question, but everything we put into the book is there to advance our story, not (just) to shock or titillate, so we’re not changing shit.” “This is a drag, especially because our book has featured what I would consider much more graphic imagery in the past, but there you go,” Vaughan wrote in a statement to fans. Honestly, the image was so subtle that I read the book cover to cover twice before realizing where the gay sex scene pops up.
Also, the TV-headed guy is being held up by a dude who’s got peacock feathered wings and is screaming for a medic. The explicit content appears on the first page of the issue, in which character Prince Robot IV - who has a television screen for a head - is displaying an image of a man performing oral sex on another man. The digital comic book startup said it interpreted Apple’s terms of service incorrectly, which led them to removing Saga #12.
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Vaughan informed the world that issue #12 of his and Fiona Staples’ hit comic book series Saga was rejected by Apple due to explicit content and subsequently would not be available for sale within any of ComiXology’s iOS apps.ĬomiXology responded to a fury of criticism from fans that blamed Apple for removing the comic book, when in fact it was ComiXology itself that decided to pull the book from its iOS in-app stores.