Comments | tuiredan: Censored by THE MAN

tuiredan

Censored by THE MAN

Sep 18, 2006 07:16

Right. Well. Background information. For those who don't read it, Issue 3 of Az. was about Wood Nymphs, and accordingly dealt with sex. When I say "dealt with" that's really a lie. It didn't deal with it at all. It just used it as a punchline mostly, and not in a particularly insightful in that way. Fast forward a couple of years and I've ( Read more... )

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_gertrude_ September 18 2006, 05:21:42 UTC

.....The tits stay, but the innuendo doesn't?

Nope. That's lost me.

tuiredan September 18 2006, 06:32:08 UTC

The tits stay, with the exception of the one page with the furry in bondage gear...that particular squirrel now has to wear a bikini top.

nerienda September 18 2006, 07:04:56 UTC

I'm more worried that they banned the innuendo but left the nudity. Don't they realise that kids often don't get the words but do get the pictures??

tuiredan September 18 2006, 23:22:11 UTC

I don't think the kids are the concern. I think the worry is paranoid parents. Seemed rather silly to me, given how many parents will actually read a comic book to check its suitability.
Complaints always seem to be about odd things in the artwork anyway. People will read an entire issue of full frontal nudity but then complain about a bare arse somewhere else. I can only assume people look at ryan's artwork and think it's too 'cute' to be offended.