I'm going to poach a shitload of links from various comic subreddits, comments and articles to try and make this understandable. There is a TL;DR at the end so you can just be mad without context.

 

The story so far...

There is a growing issue of abuse in the comicbook industry and it doesn't appear to be getting published in a meaningful way. This has led to a lot of speculative journalism and long twitter rants that don't really hammer home any details.

Marvel has a brought on Nathan Edmondson to write the new Red Wolf arc. He's currently known for runs on Punisher, Black Widow, Grifter and other stuff. The other stuff being petty theft and being a homophobe. In light of this people are kind of mad.

 

The people tweeting in that article are:

• Laurenn McCubbin - Artist

• Ales Kot - Writer

• Nick Hanover - Journalist

 

Ales Kot has been very vocal about abusers coming forward to be named and shamed but at this time he refuses to give up a list of names. Twitter being twitter this has led to some twitter mobs forming and some people saying mean things on the internet. In response to this there has been wind of a newsletter circulating by Brian Wood. This newsletter is (allegedely) a bit of a plea that harassment should not be used as it could end in self harm by the person being targeted. Unfortunately for Brian Wood he is also known as the guy who made unwanted passes at Tess Fowler, artist, at a convention.

 

/r/comicbooks and other subreddits have been pretty calm about the whole thing. Sexism in comic books is an issue that pops up with consistency so at this point we're all just beating a dead horse.

Some Reddit related links as responses:

• /r/comicbooks on "Brian Wood's statement on accusations of sexual harassment"

• /r/comicbooks on Brian Wood's recent newsletter

 

TL;DR / Not clicking a million fucking links

New writer put on title is a former petty thief and potential homophobe. Industry reacts as a twitter war with a lot of speculative articles written. Comic veteran weighs in to tell people not to harass or twitter mob but comic veteran was the focus of a sexual harassment drama wave a few years ago.