This week’s episode of CW’S Supernatural featured a Lying Cat T-Shirt worn by “Charlie,” played by Felicia Day, who calls SAGA the “best comic EVER?!”
You can pre-order your very own Lying Cat T-shirt, with new art by Fiona Staples, at comic book stores everywhere!
Needless to say, the past 24 hours following the availability of SAGA #12 digitally have been quite exhausting. We’re pleased to see the issues related to this have been resolved by our digital comics partner Comixology and Apple. Earlier today, SAGA writer Brian K. Vaughan issued the following statement:
“I wanted to apologize to everyone for this entire SAGA #12 kerfuffle. Yesterday, I was mistakenly led to believe that this issue was solely with Apple, but it’s now clear that it was only ever Comixology too conservatively interpreting Apple’s rules. I’m truly sorry. I never thought either company was being homophobic, only weirdly inconsistent about what kind of adult material was permissible. I’m grateful that the situation was cleared up so quickly, and I’m delighted I can go back to reading smutty comics on my Retina Display iPad.
—Brian K. Vaughan”
Sometimes good things come from challenging situations…
We’re pleased to update everyone that SAGA #12, written by Brian K. Vaughan and art by Fiona Staples, is now available in the Image Comics iOS application and available for purchase and your reading enjoyment.
Additionally, SEX #1, the hit new comic from writer Joe Casey and art by Piotr Kowalski, which was released in March and previously unavailable to iOS users, is also now available for you purchase and enjoy in the privacy of your home, or anywhere your iPad takes you.
And as if that wasn’t enough, one of our favorite mini-series from back in 2007, XXXOMBIES, written by Rick Remender with art by Kieron Dwyer and covers by Tony Moore, is also now available for purchase and your sick, sick reading enjoyment.
All three series as well hundreds of others can be purchased in the Image Comics digital comics web store or in the Image Comics iOS application.
We look forward to releasing more mature material to the iOS platform in the weeks to come.
It’s been quite the past 24 hours in the world of SAGA. As many of you probably heard yesterday, SAGA #12 was rejected by Apple from appearing in the Image Comics iOS app. Many other folks helped spread the word too.
So here we are on Wednesday, new comic book day, and you may be wondering, where can you get your hands on a copy of SAGA #12?
We hope that despite this little bump in the road for SAGA #12 digitally, you can find and enjoy the issue, it’s another great one from series creators Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples.
As has hopefully been clear from the first page of our first issue, SAGA is a series for the proverbial “mature reader.” Unfortunately, because of two postage stamp-sized images of gay sex, Apple is banning tomorrow’s SAGA #12 from being sold through any iOS apps. 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. 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.
Apologies to everyone who reads our series on iPads or iPhones, but here are your alternatives for Wednesday:
1) Head over to you friendly neighborhood comics shop and pick up a physical copy of our issue that you can have and hold forever.
2) While you’re at it, don’t forget to support the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, which helps protect retailers who are brave enough to carry work that some in their communities might consider offensive. You can find signed copies of Saga at the CBLDF site right now.
3) Download the issue directly through sites like https://comics.imagecomics.com or on your non-Apple smartphone or tablet.
4) If all else fails, you might be able to find SAGA #12 in Apple’s iBookstore, which apparently sometimes allows more adult material to be sold than through its apps. Crazy, right?
Anyway, special thanks to Eric Stephenson and everyone at Image for supporting our decision, and for always being so supportive of creators. Sorry again to readers for the inconvenience, but I hope everyone will be able to find an issue that Fiona and I are particularly proud of. And after you do, please check out PanelSyndicate.com, the new digital comics site I own with artist Marcos Martin, which remains 100% uncensored by corporate overlords.
Your pal,
Brian
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Image Comics adds: If you download the file, you can then sync it to your iOS device.
Image is publishing your fan art for one of our comics on Fridays!
This week’s title: SAGA by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples.
Issue #12, out this week, marks the end of the second arc of this phenomenally popular space opera. The series will be taking a break until August. (Don’t worry, though in the subsequent months there will be a trade and a secret project that will be revealed in the letters column of #12).
Submit your art on our Tumblr submission page by Friday, April 12, and be sure to use the hashtags #Image Fan Art Friday and #Saga!
Last week in panels: SAGA #11
SPOILER!
“What? It’s not even a big deal. I totally meant to do that.”
Your cat does it after falling off the couch. Lying Cat does it after being blown into the vacuum of space.
Some more solace for you, our SAGA faithful.
Here they are! The Image Comics titles that were in stores this week! Which did you read? And what did you think?
If you’re not viewing this post on Tumblr, click here to see all five images.
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Saga faithful, we understand. Here’s a little reassurance for you at this difficult time.
Make your own Lying Cat meme! Designer extraordinaire Tim Daniel provided Image with these ready-to-go templates!
