Right, Cloak & Dagger. And Runaways? Damn, so much.

This is why I don't read comics, it's too overwhelming.

Damn, Luke Cage season 2 was really good but that last episode was super unsettling.

Disney has fired James Gunn from GoTG 3 because a right-wing blogger, the Pizzagate guy, dug up a bunch of old offensive tweets from Gunn and accused him of being a pedophile.

I know that sounds like a game of MadLibs, but it's not.

I've just been over on Twitter trying to sort it all out after I saw his name trending; the tweets are an utter garbage fire of grossness, and he epically deserves the firing, but ugh it feels not good to see all the sourcing for everything leading back to Breitbart and Cernovich.

HELL. The GOTG movies were hands down my favorites, and the weirdness and kindness and emotional generosity of them is what gets me with every rewatch. I can't square that with those fucking disgusting tweets (which he's admitted were all real and all his and half-assedly apologized for). I feel like an idiot for having difficulty grasping that 9-year-old Peter keening to the sky, the luminous "We are Groot" and Gamora and Nebula's tentative, fractured reconciliation all came from the same place as those... things.

the tweets are an utter garbage fire of grossness, and he epically deserves the firing, but ugh it feels not good to see all the sourcing for everything leading back to Breitbart and Cernovich.

Yeah, the TV critic I follow who was talking about it on Twitter said, like they didn't find these tweets when they hired him? Like it's any different than Rosanne having horrific shit in her Twitter feed, until she did something while employed by them that they couldn't ignore?

A comic artist I follow just said that, in fact, when Gunn was first hired by Disney he recalls some of his progressive peers saying, "Uh, no, he's said some fairly horrible stuff and you need to look a lot more closely before you sign him on," but they were ignored. And now it's all being framed as leftist pedophile-enabling hypocrisy, when it was lefties who raised the alarm years back.

I never had any idea of any of this; I had no idea on earth who he was before the first GOTG.

I don't know how to react to that. I assume he'll land on his feet because he's a white guy and some not-Disney outfit will be happy to have him make movies for them. GotG has such a particular voice, it seems doubtful that someone else will be able to pull it off, but maybe GotG3 can be different from the first 2 but as good or even better. Could go either way.

I'm not super happy about the thought that having said some fucked up shit 7+ years ago would be justification for getting fired today.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that it's stupid to fire him now, after X number of years he's been employed by them.

Whether he should have gotten the job in the first place, I don't know. I haven't seen specifically what he said.

Should people be given opportunities, after they (supposedly) learn from their mistakes? Sure, in theory. But yeah, my sympathy for poor white guys being denied opportunities is low.

It is all just super gross. And the false equivalencies being slung around are making me want to punch things. It's all a big chaotic sea of It happened to Roseanne so this is fair [??? he was fired for 7-year-old tweets he'd already repudiated six years ago; she was fired for a consistent pattern of tweets going up to barely an hour before they finally fired her], suck it up snowflakes, tick for tack [yes, that one is a verbatim quote], shut up pedo defenders, everyone else says things ten times as gross you're just mad because he was mean to your godking and on and on and on. It's a trash fire.

I keep thinking of David saying a few months ago, "I have come to the conclusion that middle-aged white men are really the source of all our problems. I hate them. I am one, and I hate us. We all just need to sit down and shut the fuck up forever from here on out."

Ugh. I was napping and missed all of this. Like JZ, I adore these movies. What a mess.