hey brandon, you started in on Brian Wood for his latest newsletter on twitter, and I was curious how much you know about all these terrible human beings that apparently work in the comics industry that no one will say anything about? Wood, Kot, and De Cam

I would suspect that the reason they aren’t throwing around names is because the awful stuff they’re talking about is either from 2nd hand stories or something told to them in confidence. 

As much as I’m not a fan of the dude, I get what Wood was saying in that the internet culture can sometimes dog pile onto people without much idea that everyone fucks up but what you do after that is what should be important. (although I’m not exactly rushing to jump to the defence of Wood or Edmondson-) 

Personally I don’t see people getting mad on the internet as reallly hurting most established people’s comic careers.(& if it drove them to suicide-as Wood was saying, I’d assume there was a lot more going on than just internet anger)  And that’s not to say that there isn’t some gross harassment that happens online- but I don’t think that’s what the conversation here is about.

 I don’t really know what the end game of throwing out vague “there are bad men in comics” is. Maybe it’s to let women know to watch their backs around some people? I guess that would be good. I don’t really know the context that Alex or Ales were speaking in.