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The Game Of Thrones Preview That Went Far Too Far

Published Fri, 25 Apr 2014 22:00:20 -0500

Earlier this week, Bleeding Cool ran an extended preview of this weeks issue of the Game Of Thrones comic adaptation from Dynamite. We had to remove some pages, for a graphic rape scene however, an example of which is censored below.

Not every website did the same though, it seems.

Oh hey @CBR that Game of Thrones preview you posted has a graphic rape scene in it complete with dick. http://t.co/PWHLpjZxJz Just FYI.

— Janelle Asselin (@gimpnelly) April 25, 2014

@gimpnelly @CBR What. The. Fuck. — Graeme (@graemem) April 25, 2014

@gimpnelly I'm not sure what's worse: that CBR ran it or that Dynamite OFFERED it — JAME$ LEA$K (@Leask) April 25, 2014

@gimpnelly I'm not sure what's worse: that CBR ran it or that Dynamite OFFERED it

— JAME$ LEA$K (@Leask) April 25, 2014

@gimpnelly @CBR Like, not even a NSFW? Come on. — Jill Pantozzi (@JillPantozzi) April 25, 2014

@gimpnelly Is it possible as a matter of routine they just send out the first five pages of any given issue? — Layman (@themightylayman) April 25, 2014

@themightylayman it is (many publishers do) but if you know there's a graphic scene that early on maybe pick something else?

— Janelle Asselin (@gimpnelly) April 25, 2014

CBR did reply, stating they were amending the preview.

@gimpnelly Hey Janelle, thank you for pointing that out. We're deleting the final two pages right now.

— Comic Book Resources (@CBR) April 25, 2014

@gimpnelly We are. It was part of a batch upload & that should have been caught. We publish mature material, but that's too far. Apologies.

— Comic Book Resources (@CBR) April 25, 2014

Dynamite's Nick Barrucci tells us,

I and the staff of Dynamite Entertainment apologizes; while the Game of Thrones source material is mature and we are faithful to that material, we should have been more careful in how we released that content for previews. We have learned from this unfortunate error, and will work to avoid future such incidents.

It's also an example of the standard automation of comic book previews. Publishers send them out automatically. Websites run them automatically. This is not the first time this has happened, and the page is still viewable at other sites. It may, however, be one of the few times that enough of a fuss has been generated to change something.

And maybe things may change, going on.

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