Wanderer posted:

Did Berganza have incriminating photos of a major stockholder or something? Him being a creep has been an open secret for long enough that even I'd heard of it. I don't see how this took this long.

jivjov posted:

I 100% cop to being completely uninformed on the particulars of this guy's history

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Basically, it “could have been worse” with me and the only reason it wasn’t was because I had good self preservation skills. However, WHENEVER I saw Eddie over the years (usually at San Diego Comic-Con in the lobby of some hotel where everyone was gathered), he was wildly inappropriate with me. And keep in mind at the time I was quite young – maybe around 20 when I met him? (I’m 28 now).

Some notable moments:

– Rubbing his penis against me while we were both standing at the bar (from behind me)

– Always grabbing/smacking/making weird comments about my rear end/the size of it

– Asking extremely invasive questions about my sexual experience and preferences

– Making inappropriate comments about my physical appearance, how I would be “in bed” etc

– Once when I was sitting at the Hyatt complaining that my feet hurt after a day of walking the con, he yanked my feet into his lap and took my shoes off and started giving me a foot massage. I was very awkward and uncomfortable and asked him to stop and he didn’t.

– He was constantly saying “let’s talk about your writing career” because I wanted to write for comics so badly. He consistently told me he could get me a job writing at DC, and when I would try to talk about it he would always attempt to get me to his hotel room/somewhere private. IE “Let’s go up to my hotel room and discuss it, I have nice whiskey up there.” I never went with him which is why it never went beyond this, but I would email him to follow up EVERY time I saw him and he would say “I don’t have an opening for a writer right now, but maybe if you met up with me…” The implication was very clear.

– He would try to get me drunk, always handing me drinks. Luckily I’m 5’10” and Scottish so my blood is made of whiskey.

– If I hugged him hello or goodbye, he would kiss my neck, whisper weird things about how good I felt etc

He was just generally creepy and forever sexually overt with me. I told many people about it and women said “me, too” and men said “well, that’s just how Eddie is, just ignore him and don’t go to his hotel room with him.” I felt like I had to be around him because all of my peers always were, which caused me to be re-victimized by him over and over. At the time, I was writing for a myriad of big comics websites (ifanboy was my primary employer) so I was deeply entrenched in the industry. I wanted desperately to write comics but I can genuinely say that Eddie’s behavior made me abandon that dream as I did not want to work in an industry where I would have to sleep with someone to get a writing job.

Schneider Heim posted:

but to pretend that you're Asian to, I dunno, like seriously what was this guy thinking?

Schneider Heim posted:

Why didn't they just hire Japanese writers, they already have a translator dude

Yvonmukluk posted:

I wonder what spurred Axel getting the boot. I don't recall him getting embroiled in any particular controversy.

Archyduke posted:

DC Murderverse posted:

I read through the entire linked thread and it’s kinda heartening to see a forum that actually bans people for awful “bitches be lyin’” logic beyond SA. One dude on page 7 really goes all out and he’s popped within a page.

Teenage Fansub posted:

I was just looking through the DC 2017 Holiday special and it looks like Max Landis' story has been removed from the digital version.
Unless I'm imagining things, look out for a BC article for Christmas

e: Bingo: https://www.bleedingcool.com/2017/12/25/dc-comics-remove-max-landis-superman-story-holiday-special-2017/
Though apparently it was already pulled by the time it went to print three weeks ago, well before Bright?

Lurdiak posted:

DC used to gently caress up

site posted:

I'm not going to hope for anything that way I'm not disappointed when nothing happens

Teenage Fansub posted:

Update on Gerard Jones (comics writer, including a major run on Green Lantern) who is being tried for possession and distribution of child pornography and contacting a minor for sex.
https://www.bleedingcool.com/2018/03/31/gerard-jones-guilty-child-pornography/ (caution: contains description of child abuse and a super gross email address)

He's changed his plea to guilty and has letters of support against incarceration "from Rev. Dr. Paul Fromberg of the St. Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church, the Rev. John Kirkley of St. James Episcopal Church, as well as members of the community, businessmen, teachers, veterans, and writers, including comic creators Will Jacobs, Mark Badger, James Hudnall, and Mike W. Barr."