A quick tour through Saga's archive can be shocking. 'Based on our understanding of those policies, we believed that Saga #12 could not be made available in our app, and so we did not release it today.'ĬomiXology interpreted Apple's policies, then, as being unfriendly to gay pornographic imagery, but welcoming of all the hardcore scenes depicted in issues 1 through 11 of the series. 'As a partner of Apple, we have an obligation to respect its policies for apps and the books offered in apps,' he wrote. In ' Concluding the Saga #12 saga' (though this is far from over), David Steinberger confessed that it was his company that banned the comic and apologized to its creators. It would be a sad place to find itself-except that Apple, we now know, never even saw the comic.Īfter just about every digital-first publication, from Business Insider to The Atlantic denounced 'the foolishness of Apple's decision,' the founder of ComiXology, the platform through which Saga would have been distributed by Apple, released a statement that contradicted Vaughan's.
