Neil Gaiman... and why do these things keep happening?

[@-Man-kk3pt]

Quote-"So all these years later Todd Mcfarlane was right about this Guy?"

[@Madbandit77]

Guess so...🤔

[@ComicsPerch]

Yep!

[@JihoSSJ5]

oh to be a fly on the wall in Todd's office right now...

[@lacolem1]

Todd’s looking downright prophetic these days, considering PAD’s unfortunate situation after years of Big 2 loyalty, and now Gaiman *allegedly* being a demon

[@Madbandit77]

@@lacolem1 Shame what's happened to Peter David because he's a great writer, but I guess he made too many bad decisions.

[@spheremode3271]

This has been a rude awakening for a lot of people because Gaiman acted all feminist and woke. People focus too much on celebrities branding themselves, not realizing it may actually not represent who they really are.

[@willadkins1354]

Like Joss Whedon, again

[@stephennootens916]

It is a reminder that some people hide the fact they are monsters by saying the right thing.

[@Madbandit77]

@ It's not that they say the right thing, but they say it TOO LOUDLY. When a guy says they're a male feminist, like Gaiman and Whedon, they're doing it to get laid.

[@santiagovazquezvilarino6791]

I agree but I don't like how it is being weaponized to attack "the other side" indiscriminately like that is gonna paint a good picture of anything.

[@HkFinn83]

@@stephennootens916 it’s beyond ‘saying the right thing’. Going out of your way to make the creepiest male feminist statements that are just open ‘branding’ is what it is. Unfortunately women don’t have any intuition for this kind of man

[@davea136]

Bill Waterson is who society claims it wants. Neil Gaiman is who society lavishly rewards. We learned it from you, Dad. We learned it from you.

[@elizaearhart4533]

I think this is interesting to me as somebody who only knew Gaiman for the longest time from his tumblr. I remember when I was in high school around 2016 that he said some stuff on his tumblr that just screamed out that “nice guy” trope and I told my friend right then that he just seemed odd to me. I picked up a couple of his books from the thrift bec I didn’t want to support him directly back then, and I played myself there, bec I read them recently and actually semi- enjoyed them (not amazing though. He comes off pretentious in his writing IMO). But it’s so interesting that even as a teenage girl in a very liberal setting that my vibes were correct. Now I just feel bad for my friend who practically worshipped the ground he walked on. (An unfortunate side note on that is that I was gonna make her a custom bind of her fav book Good Omens, but uh, yeah that gift got scrapped after hours of work and a year of planning once this all came out)

[@TsunamiWombat]

good omens was 90% pratchett

[@elizaearhart4533]

@@TsunamiWombat Yeah I’ve realized that now that I’ve read some more Gaiman books. I’ve been meaning to give Guards, Guards a try and hopefully that will be more of the parts of Good Omens that I liked!

[@turtleanton6539]

​@@elizaearhart4533guards guards is way better imo😊 gpod omens is good to😊

[@ChristineP223]

Did he sign that “I won’t -- my co-workers” pledge back in the day?

[@ComicsPerch]

He did

[@ChristineP223]

@@ComicsPerchGuess it didn’t apply to his household staff

[@SchweitzerMan]

​@ChristineP223 Well of course not. That applied to coworkers, not your own employees

[@kidicarus2215]

If you need to sign a statement like that, it's not worth the paper it's written on.

[@MatthewLoh-ru1mw]

Yes

[@clonegeek3317]

The scientology stuff with Gaiman is what I think needs to be talked about more and how the abused become abusers

[@alexdawson4571]

I couldn't agree more.

[@obi_dean]

Idk if scientology abused him or opened the doors/enabled to become the monster we see before us. Last I checked his parents were higher up members but I could be wrong. Neil is what they call a hush scientologist like will smith

[@dai19721]

do you think its true tho?

[@obi_dean]

@@dai19721 unfortunately yes. He is a hush scientologist like will smith

[@duxnihilo]

That's not fair. I was abused and know a lot of people that were abused. We've never abused anyone.

[@JP-1990]

As much as I never enjoyed the "Dr. Who but IRL" persona he gave off, or his core fanbase of tumblr-addicted theater kids, it's deeply saddening that this happened if true. I've enjoyed a great many of his works, and considered him quite the trailblazer.

[@garou12]

what if u found out he shamelessly plagiarized and took credit for other women's work? how would that affect how u see him

[@JP-1990]

@garou12 It would be quite a bummer. But I'd need to make sure I have all the facts straight.

[@JDPetty0990]

They say the worst part of things like this is the hypocrisy, but I disagree... In all seriousness, I have only read Coraline (and enjoyed it). This was a case where the cult of personality surrounding Gaiman kind of turned me off from really getting into his work, and this news does not help motivate me. That said, despite the nature of these accusations, his stories should not be erased.

[@kostantza1]

I got into his stories way before I became aware of a cult of personality around him - if anything I only knew him through the themes he wrote about and the way he approached fantasy.The last few years had given me enough signals that he had jumped some sort of shark, personality- if not writing-wise. I am violently put off by people overexposing themselves - I know that at some point, when you speak too much, you'll say something stupid.Then, with the adaptations, he showed he didn't care for his own work's integrity, something he till then claimed to do. Then this....I've drifted away long before this, but though I don't intend to disavow his works that have shaped for me, I will need to have a reckoning with them at some point. I never worshipped him, but when you've devoted so much time to his work, you do feel profound disappointment. And his hypocrisy between what he wrote and how he acted is pathetic too.

[@adamfrey4920]

Val D'Orazio has a depressing but insightful longform tweet today. Essentially, comics is small, insular, and insecure, so they want to be good guys but only to the limited extent it benefits them.

[@DelRio1991]

I've never really been interested in Neil Gaiman's work. I prefer the books by his doppelganger, Neil Straightman

[@KClouisville]

The contrast between how comics "media" has handled this compared to how Ed Piskor's stuff was handled is pretty glaring....as is how the same morally righteous people who had their pitchforks out for him have pretty 200x tamer dealing with this Gaiman stuff....despite it being in another realm of severity.

[@Octavius_DelMonte]

I'm bittersweet that the writer/artist of my favorite manga/anime Yu-Gi-Oh went out trying to save others from drowning. Now compare the impact of Gaiman and Takahashi, both from a creative and social standpoint. Who wins? King of Games all day baby.

[@univeriseman8008]

Problem is his PR defended it by saying whatever he did was legal so they acknowledged he did sexual stuff. They are recorded of saying his actions were consent

[@Trustme77]

People can be into kinky things, and there's certain stuff I'll let people do to me that would not appeal to most others (not on the level of what Neil's accused of, mind you). The thing is that between stories like this and stories told by non-famous people too, it seems like the world of BDSM attracts a lot of abusers. Other people who are into kinky stuff too have told me, for example, "Be VERY sure you can trust somebody if they tie you up, because you'll be vulnerable to anything they feel like doing to you. If you're with somebody who cares about your feelings and is trying not to cause you distress, who'll stop as soon as you give the signal because that's what the two of you agreed on, then you're fine. But if you're with somebody who's going to do insane things to you that leave you a physical and emotional wreck, then they can claim you consented to that, they can point to how you've consented to other kinks, and it'll be your word against theirs." There are some real horrific people in this world who see that whole scene as a perfect cover to allow them to get away with whatever they want. There are also people who are the opposite, who are not abusers and who are like "I'm only going to do what you're comfortable with or curious about, and the instant you signal me that it's getting too intense for you, I'll stop," and they say that sincerely. The trick is figuring out which is which, and I don't believe anybody's able to do that from the very beginning. So I guess all I can think to add is "be careful"...and be careful who you trust even if you don't do anything kinky at all, too.

[@TemplesmithOfficial]

I do find the hypocrisy, especially in the media circles, quite facinating & enraging. Yeah the comics media, but definitely mainstream too, if you look at Maryln Manson's treatment on the same day, as Gaiman's, in The Guardian as well. & both those guys can sue if they want. So it's not just about that! ( The comic sites are easily cowed... if say, you're a former IDW president being sued by *the* "MeToo" lawyer, Gloria Allred, for something he did at IDW, only to pay off the victims, get NDA's and then threaten Bleeding Cool with a lawsuit if they don't remove any mention of his uh "issues". Lucky for him it was really only small enough to be in the comics sphere. Apart from the primary victims in all this, it's folks like Colleen Doran I feel really badly for. She just can't seem to win & doesn't deserve any of this. & I had no idea about the Gaiman stuff ( trying to sleep with everyone that moved ) until last year, since I'm not in the cool circles! All I got was the public persona.

[@ianhowe338]

I still like Tori Amos. Not so much her recent stuff. But all those 1990s albums slap. I wonder if she’s going to weigh in at some point?

[@BlackMath69]

she has made a statement

[@kendershot]

Wait, the guy who wrote about weird and creepy shit was into creepy and weird shit?

[@stephennootens916]

To be fair not everyone who writes weird and creep shit turn out be into weird and creepy. I mean Lovecraft wrote weird shit and he was just a xenophobia who thought sex was disgusting.

[@WeirdTale]

Thing is that horror writers that write far worse shit than he has are far better people IRL but aren't as famous. Either fame got to his head and he went mad with hedonism. Or a ton of famous people are artificially propped up into fame form the start that either have such depraved weaknesses or are influenced and manipulated into falling deep into depravity to have blackmail at the ready to control them to say and do certain things when they need to.

[@stephennootens916]

@WeirdTale this is largely true. The worst thing you cab say about the most famous horror writer is that he is a recovering addict. Odd side note as someone trying to broaden my horror reading there are a good deal of women writers in the genre once you get pass the two or so big names.

[@kostantza1]

@@stephennootens916 We should strive to introduce people to Tanith Lee.Let something marginally good come from this.

[@Trustme77]

I never read Gaiman's stuff, so this is easier for me to handle than a big fan of his would. I did read Watchmen, however, and now I'm hoping that Alan Moore has nothing to hide, because I AM a fan of Alan Moore, who has also written weird and creepy shit.

[@tonygriego6382]

Absolutely nothing more trustworthy than a male feminist

[@kestrel1234]

Will Death be portrayed as a goth girl again?

[@MichaelWaisJr]

🤞

[@ObscureDraws]

No one cares if you are a creepy weirdo if you are hot and popular. If you shift over and become washed up, they care.

[@Madbandit77]

"shift over"?

[@MrCarlosj0]

One thing i learned from this Neil Gaiman situation: Never go a2m unless you clean it first.

[@JJTWrites]

😂

[@Trustme77]

I cannot foresee a day or any circumstances in which this will ever be BAD advice. 😅

[@solomonallen3524]

1st Peter David and now Neil gaiman...Todd mcfarlane is somewhere laughing 😂😅

[@Trustme77]

I'm not going to get into specifics--least if I don't want to waste a whole lot of time arguing with people over David's positions--but Peter David has said things that made me lose respect for him as a person, and he has expressed approval for certain real world events that made me lose respect for him as a person. I haven't read anything he wrote either online or published in years, but I remember back when I still bothered to read his opinions he would look down his nose at fans, and he would be extremely self-righteous even when defending things that I considered indefensible. Basically I see him like this: take Mark Waid and dial him back about 50%. Imagine this Mark Waid who's still full of rage but not as much rage, who's got bad opinions but is somewhat less obnoxious about telling you that he's right and you're wrong (or worse) if you disagree, and you've got Peter David.

[@MatthewLoh-ru1mw]

​@@Trustme77why? What did he say??

[@Trustme77]

@@MatthewLoh-ru1mw I'm surely an idiot for answering this, but okay, I guess I'm an idiot... Ask Noam Chomsky to tell you his opinion on Israel and the Gaza Strip, if you ever get a chance to do so. Noam Chomsky's opinion is one I agree with. Ask Peter David to tell you HIS opinion on Israel and the Gaza Strip, if you ever get a chance to do so. Unless he has changed his world view a LOT in the years since I stopped following him, his opinion will be the complete opposite of Noam Chomsky's. And I could not possibly disagree with him more on that.

[@MatthewLoh-ru1mw]

@Trustme77 what, he sides with Israel or something or like that?

[@garou12]

@@Trustme77 having met peter david it doesn't bother me he has rightwing views. because he treated me like a person.

[@agent_meister477]

Who cares what Bleedin' Cool has to say about anything? An insult from a fool is no insult at all.

[@MatthewLoh-ru1mw]

They have not said anything about this whole Gaiman stuff until now

[@Gordon-n2x]

I hate to see Warren Ellis get dragged into this conversation, although the comparisons are probably inevitable. The difference is there’s a strong argument that Ellis didn’t do anything wrong, whereas it looks more and more clear that Gaiman did do something wrong, the question is what exactly was was wrong about it, and was any of it illegal?

[@lacolem1]

Iirc, everything involving Ellis was consensual. But the comics media was quick to destroy him

[@marigoann2755]

I had no idea how people actually saw him in the 90's, which is fascinating and surprisingly a bit sobering to learn. Used to be a huge fan for a super brief period of time, so it's interesting to hear what others outside of this bubble thought about him.

[@matthewmilan6979]

If we could get Jim Lee, Brevoort, Geppi and Gaiman together in a tub we could solve all the problems of the comic book industry. Rub-a-dub-dub!

[@miless544]

Gaiman contends it was all consensual. He needs to hire Jian Ghomeshi's lawyer.

[@BrettCaton]

The trouble is that he pushed "Believe All Women". So he was personally fine with pushing other men under the bus, but as soon as his turn comes, suddenly he wants due process instead.

[@silverheart4049]

All the signs were there, sure, but he's talented and clearly very charming to many people. Same old story, unfortunately. I don't think we'll ever quash this kind of thing.

[@alexdawson4571]

I don't think so either. And it's something that I think people will need to come to terms with; that even bad people can make good art, and you shouldn't feel ashamed for liking someone's work because you didn't know.

[@HkFinn83]

@@alexdawson4571you should feel ashamed for calling Neil gaiman books art though

[@WeirdTale]

​@@HkFinn83 No. Plenty of hso work is overrated, but American God's and Sandman were genuinely good. It's just that he was over marketed on vibes. Kinda fucked now that urban fantasy fans have to live with the guilt of enabling this guy even if it was without their knowledge.

[@HkFinn83]

@ read American gods, it’s sub Stephen King level garbage.

[@InfamyOrDeath-__-]

“Gaiman did nothing wrong!!”…. Watches videos about it…. Eh never mind.

[@PhantomHarlock78]

You know those videos you made about comic book villains being lame? I see a lot of folks connecting Sandman villains and violence with Gaiman personal life. This can make writers dumb down even more edge stuff in comics.

[@WeirdTale]

Yeah, this is a problem. Writers limiting themselves because of connecting to actual celebrity criminal behavior is something that does happen.

[@jamesmcclure3907]

I haven’t been too impressed with Netflix’ SANDMAN tv series, so I’m betting we can expect that to stop be produced (if it wasn’t already)…that said, it’s metaphorically telling that Gaiman himself voices the decaying vulture in “a dream of cats” episode…to a broken hearted female…that is struggling to find their way.

[@kostantza1]

His American Gods series was an affront to his own book - the very first scene butchered and outright mocked one of my most favourite and impactful scenes in his book. I gave up on him for good then. He always emphasized the internal rationale and meaning of his works that he wouldn't have compromised, allegedly. From what I've seen Sandman is more of the same.There is no genuine whimsy for me anymore - it's all corporate mascarading as the works I loved. My sympathies to anyone who's a fan, but I won't be sad if it gets cancelled. Only nice thing was Charles Dance as Roderick Burgess for me.

[@MatthewLoh-ru1mw]

It will be cancelled

[@leonevelake]

​@@kostantza1 It wasn't great but the casting for Mr Wensday was amazing

[@joellim7521]

"you don't bite the hand that feeds you".. except if Gaiman asks you too.. given the context.. haha

[@davidgantenbein9362]

I wonder, do people help him to cover up just because he is famous … or do they secretly envy him for what he got allegedly away with before?

[@alexdawson4571]

I think it depends on the person. Both definitely happen, though.

[@Distortion0]

I'd be interested in hearing your ideas around how we fix this. Like if the answer is people just need to be brave enough to put their livelihoods on the line at any moment then I don't think it's ever going to be fixed.

[@superjlk_9538]

People on the fringe of society make art. Sometimes those people on the fringe are messed up a little bit. Mundane and boring people don’t make good art. You have to be creative and a little weird. It’s just unfortunate that some people are creeps.

[@FlameForgedSoul]

Well said.

[@HkFinn83]

You’re talking like he’s Oscar Wilde. He’s a pop writer. Just a classic ‘nice guy’ who got success and access to women later in life. This is what happens.

[@folly6682]

Its true success does excuse bad behavior in a lot of places. The thing is that most of these people aren't successful (successful for comics, but not in absolute terms). The few who are successful aren't in a position to bring anyone else along with them. So why tolerate the bad behavior?

[@puxtbuck6731]

Maybe I’m just sexually repressed or something but the argument that he did or didn’t do wrong is just stupid because they’re not disputing these things happened. They’re saying it was consensual which we will probably never truly know 100% if it was. Regardless, the dude is a creep

[@tommyfishhouse8050]

It's Marion Zimmer Bradley all over again. Remember her? She was this darling of a science fiction/fantasyauthor that everyone loved that was put on a pedestal as an example of progressive virtue. Turns our she was the worst child predator, and tons of people in the publishing industry covered for her because they were worried about the message it would send if their symbol of progressive virtue got exposed to be a monster. If Gaiman is guilty and this isn't another Vic Mignogna/Johnny Depp situation. He needs to pay for it absolutely. But we also need to take a look at the system and the people who covered for him for all these years, and make sure they suffer some kind of consequence too.

[@Trustme77]

Holy crap, seriously? I have one of the "Sword And Sorceress" anthologies she put together lying around somewhere. All I knew was that she had passed years ago, and this is the first I'm hearing of any of this. Jesus... We always have to consider the possibility of false accusations such as those against Depp and (while I don't know as much about this one, it does sound like the case from what I have heard) against Mignogna, I agree. Everybody is supposed to be innocent until proven guilty beyond reasonable doubt in a court of law, and yet so many people these days just assume guilt. Not as in "I believe this person is guilty as sin, but they have a right to a trial and a defense, and if they were proven innocent I would acknowledge that." I mean as in "This person is guilty as sin, and in a better world they wouldn't even get a trial! If they go to trial and get a verdict of not guilty then shame on the judge and jury!"

[@TsunamiWombat]

What happened to "lets watch neutrally and let this go to court"? Literally in your last video?? "Please do not bring it up in the comments"? What should happen is a fair due process???? SIXTEEN HOURS AGO???? edit: oh great, he admitted to doing the stuff. fantastic. faaaantastic. nevermind. i'm tired boss.

[@ComicsPerch]

Yeah, that’s why this one is different. There are still allegations that aren’t concluded, but in this case there is a lot more that isn’t speculation now.

[@user-jz5cf9ob5h]

Loved his work on Miracleman

[@mayhemltd]

So, if this seems to have been an open secret, how come no one was saying anything? That seems cowardly. (My apologies. I'm actually listening and you answered my question).

[@krishall2086]

Anything ever referred to as ‘the new rock and roll’ expects groupies to be part of the deal.

[@luciferfernandez7094]

Sorry, me never being around comic book conventions I never heard anything but praise for the guy - maybe save Todd Mcfarlane for obvious reasons - Gaiman’s “mastery” is new to me. Your comment on “journalists” is spot on!

[@davariusjessup3943]

Another artistic professional with skeletons in their closet? Who doesn't have them at this point?

[@theeternalgus9119]

I'm too poor to afford a closet.

[@TheGuyInTheCheapSeats]

It's always nice to see Perch get off his fence. And I completely agree with his reasons behind Warren Ellis's downfall. As for Gaiman, I never really understood the hype. I read a few things he wrote, and he struck me as more clever than good.

[@WeirdTale]

Yeah I agree. Sandman and American God's where his only good shit. Everything else is over hyped.

[@luciferfernandez7094]

I agree with Gaiman being clever - most people forget two names that got Gaiman into comics: Alan Moore opened the door, and Gaiman walked through it in hand with Dave Mckean, which is something akin Steven Spielberg being a combo with John Williams. Then he got into book publishing in hands with Terry Prachett and since them he only regurgitated Sandman until he got into movie screenwriting in hand with Roger Avary… and such the story goes.

[@leonevelake]

He at least was clever and good... But never as clever as he thought he was. That's said 90% of sandman is fantastic. American gods is one of my favorite books and the movie version of Stardust is great.

[@clonegeek3317]

One thing comics should learn from Manga is that the people making it act like actual adults

[@kidicarus2215]

Eesh.. I'm not sure about this. I just think that we're not exposed to some of the things that go on behind the scenes in manga. And, no, I don't want to know. Knowing about the dude behind Kenshin is enough. I don't want to go digging for any more dirt.

[@Beelzeboogie]

*ahem* Rurouni Kenshin

[@bryanrickard7712]

Man, I wasn’t expecting this video until mid June. Perch has really been on top of the news this week.

[@clonegeek3317]

What a strange week for comics

[@yourarchnemesis8453]

Finally, Master Perch made a video on this topic.

[@garou12]

perch what do u mean his behavior was already being whispered about in the 90s within the comic industry

[@RP-ve7bl]

It won't be long until only Mark Millar and Rob Liefeld are deemed acceptable as comics creators...

[@solomonallen3524]

Marc silvestri and Todd mcfarlane is somewhere laughing 😂😅

[@todd8398]

Thanks to inflation, rage-dollars don't go as far as they used to.

[@stephennootens916]

I think the only thing of his I read was Good Omens which he co wrote with Terry Pratchett.

[@valeriemcdonald440]

I love Terry Pratchett. I've always felt like I should read Good Omens for Terry Pratchett's contribution. Now I feel like the pressure's off lol

[@alexdawson4571]

The only major thing I'd like to read from Gaiman, if I'm being honest is Sandman? Aside from that, I've never been big into his work.

[@patrickmoreau7592]

Good comments Perch Neil is a creep even if the lowest allegations are true. That being said, some of the accusations don’t add up. Stay tune I guess.

[@Trustme77]

I feel like Rich Johnston, if he actually is friends with Neil (like a select number of people) and if he doesn't want to believe that any of this is true (like tons and tons of people who enjoy comics, and I'm feeling very lucky I never got around to reading any of this guy's stuff), should write something like this: "I've heard the allegations against Neil Gaiman. I'm going to leave it to others to report on that, and I encourage you to read their coverage. I'm choosing not to cover it myself. That's because in the legal system where somebody is brought to trial and it happens that the judge is good friends with them, or related to them, or a business partner, something in that vein, the judge will recuse themselves. They won't hear the case, because they'll say that they aren't sure that they can be impartial given their relationship with the defendant. They'll say that even if they did manage to be impartial, it would be bad optics, and people would always wonder whether the judge went too easy now and then. I'm sad to say that I don't know if I can be impartial after having spent so much time talking to Neil over the years, and even if I were there would still be questions about my coverage, too. So I'm going to stick to things I know that I can report on fairly and without bias. All that I'll say is that I really hope he's not guilty. Thanks everyone." Of course, if he wrote that after a career full of pronouncing people he DIDN'T like as definitely guilty and not recusing himself in their cases, people would point out his hypocrisy. But even so, that might still be better than him being like "let's not jump to conclusions, innocent until proven guilty, that's not what I usually say but in this case I like his politics so I'm giving him as much benefit of the doubt as I can..." Edit: About hypocrisy among creators, I noticed that too. Like, the people who wrote lots of these stories played a part in shaping my morality as a child. They showed me that Spider-Man, or Batman, or whichever hero it was with an exception here and there, didn't kill bad guys. It would be wrong of them to do what the Punisher does, the stories said to me. They also wrote stories showing how whenever the villain would take hostages or hide behind innocent bystanders, the hero would never even THINK of doing anything that could harm the bystanders, because that would be wrong as well. They would talk about how wrong that was IRL, not just in comics. But later, as an adult, I would look at what the same people were saying on the internet, and they were saying the opposite! They were actually saying that some people deserve killing, and that some people deserve killing so much that it's okay to take out a whole lot of innocent bystanders along with them. Or they would always write about how Magneto was wrong with his ends justify the means approach, but fast forward to now and you have all of these people IRL saying that the ends do justify the means, especially against the orange man. I wish that all of them would have the kind of boy scout mentality, a.k.a. "a conscience", that Steve Rogers had from the Silver Age on...but if they can't be like Captain America, I would like it if they were consistent at least.

[@adamfrey4920]

The thing is, if Rich is stepping out, then one of Bleeding Cool's other writers needs to cover it. Bleeding Cool running too cover on Donny Cates (a former staffer of theirs) tells me all I need to know.

[@Trustme77]

@@adamfrey4920 Interesting. It's been a long time since I read Bleeding Cool regularly, but it sounds like I haven't really missed much.

[@Trustme77]

@@adamfrey4920 Interesting. I guess I really haven't been missing out on much since I stopped regularly reading it.

[@furwerkstudio2057]

I remember him on the Anti,-gravity room and I remember him talking about bading Delirium on Tori Amos which at the time bring young and a different time thought it was like how creators based characters on actors, people they know and do on.... It's very with unnerving to go back to that interview, like Dave Sim interview....

[@ComicsOdyssey]

Rage dollar. That’s a great idiom!

[@AL-ws5yi]

I never liked Gaiman tbh.

[@VeritatisQ]

What did Macfarlane say about Gaiman in the past? Any links?

[@aYT-hs6kj]

We are never getting Miracleman: The Dark Age now are we?

[@lacolem1]

Bleeding Cool is still silent, as far as I see

[@adamfrey4920]

They also haven't said anything about the British rape scandal. They weigh in on every American event but he's dead fucking silent on that one. As I understand it, Labour is heavily involved in the scandal and Rich votes that way.

[@CRUCIFi777]

Our flesh remembers, it’s a biblical concept so I’ll spare you the details unless you’d like to know more; I’d love it if you did.

[@TheSpecsShow]

No thank you; the Bible is even more overrated than Gaiman

[@ascorvinus]

I disagree that CBR, Bleeding Cool, et al, will approach this with circumspection. As soon as they’re sure they won’t get any blowback, they’ll go for Neil like they went for Ed Piskor. Not because they see him as an enemy, but just because their first love is hurting people, whether they deserve it or not.

[@adamfrey4920]

To their limited credit, BC largely stayed away from Ed Piskor, although their coverage of his suicide was markedly sterile. The speculation is that this is because Rich desperately wants to get into Alex deCampi's bed.

[@MatthewLoh-ru1mw]

@@adamfrey4920 he and BC are also not covering this Gaiman stuff either and crickets about it

[@garou12]

i mentioned this at wes' channel and it's been deleted twice. a friend of tanith lee posted on facebook that gaimen lifted whole passages from her book for sandman and that he's plagiarized other writers as well. sooo this might be something u might wanna discuss.

[@leonevelake]

Im gonna pretend to be one of the " i never liked his stuff" guys I loved sandman ( except for the game of you) and american gods. But even back when i read sandman there were some bits that made me think " why did he think that was the way it would happen" I mean its dangerous to assume someone writing a nasty scene is nasty... but the logic was odd to me a few times. Makes it hard not to believe somw of this stuff.

[@josephpantolon]

Neal Adams never issues like this…

[@1001johny]

So my while my twitter feed has alot of postive and fun things on the timeline, im seeing things like this about Gaimen, and a few twitter folks trying to pin John Byrne as a Pedophile.

[@jqapp]

Are these Tory and Neal interviews still out there.

[@reubennichols644]

Oh - Boy // Oh - Boy . Neil Gaiman ? ? I Am Sooooo - Looking Forward To See - - ing What ' s Going On With Neil Gaiman In Real Time . Here - I - Go U

[@commonsense5199]

2025 is not having a good start. It is not just comics. It is also novel and movies too. I have Neil Gaiman’s American Gods and Anasai Boys. Those books are critically acclaimed. American gods had a TV adaptation. The famous stop motion Coraline movie. It was based on Neil Gaiman’s book. Dark Horse making comic adaptation of his novels, including Norse Mythology. If Neil Gaiman is popular, people would be blinded of the weird stuff he say and or done because he is popular. And Popular people would be with side what majority audience’s view on social media thoughts as you talk about Liberals and left leaning just to keep their popularity and tries to hide in plan sight. You mentioned Hollywood as well. There people from who are just weird. I like Zachary Levi mostly he played Shazam. But I seen video where he becoming more and more odd, after Shazam 2 flopped. 5:20 is that equivalent to ghost writers?. 5:43 Nothing. Last time you talk about Maggs when she tried make Connor Kent trans. *Which is a terrible idea.* all that was in 2023. I remember Maggs wrote comics of Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon. *That is not an achievement.* 17:32 / 18:47 I gave you a new email of a similar topic.

[@chart6454]

Why is being friends with Tori Amos odd?

[@ComicsPerch]

It wasn’t the friendship, it was the way he discussed it, talked about how his wife should act more like her, etc

[@shengcer]

Guess dark age won’t happen after all… I know silver age did not sell well, but still you’d hope a name like Gaiman would guarantee the trilogy will be finished, well ain’t it the right timing?

[@coinopanimator]

5:04 “Rage Grifters” like that.

[@peterdickinson4599]

Adding to the trial by media?

[@brandonjames673]

Kneel Gaiman

[@UelCarter]

Anyone who took photos with Dave Sim published in Cerebus is questionable

[@clonegeek3317]

If I recorded an elevator pitc for a comic and sent it to you on email could you give feedback via a video?

[@Tacom4ster]

I blame late stage capitalism

[@bobbyologun1517]

14:29 big facts

[@user-lw7jp2vg9c]

#heforshe

[@pubaapex2827]

my only problem with this is that if we are honest warren Elise is no different than Gaiman if we are being honest

[@pubaapex2827]

but that is just my opinion but if you gate keep than provide only one solution I would call it exploitation

[@andrewrowland6086]

I don't kink shame anyone. More people are freakier than they'd ever lead you to believe and will deny it if confronted. What gets me, is what always gets me and that's the issue of consent. Consent is an ongoing process, that's why people in "the lifestyle" have safewords and safe signals ( should a party be gagged). Some of the allegations against Gaiman sound a bit like buyer's remorse. Things weren't as fun as they thought or they became embarrassed when other people found out what they did. Other allegations are really disturbing, because they seem non-consensual and abusive from the jump. Plus, there's the issue of lying to his wife about being monogamous after she became pregnant. All this rhetoric about him being "creepy" is bull hockey though. Perch you're creepy a bunch ( what's with the Riley Reid fixation bud? She's retired) and it's probably nothing sinister. Factually though, it seems Neil may have some consent comprehension problems on par with the US president elect, which for most of us, would be considered criminal.

[@ComicsPerch]

The Riley bit is a bit, it’s literally the only name I can remember in that industry unless I go back to Jenna Jameson.

[@G.D.G.]

Agreed. No need to kinkshame.

[@charliedogg7683]

Love Gaiman's work, will keep buying and reading it.

[@AlucardNoir]

It takes two to tango as they say. Some of the accusations seem to be outright rape while at least another seems to be woman who thinks she was taken advantage of because she never explicitly said yes. She also never said no, and she realizes that herself. As for why this keeps happening... I dunno, biology?

[@Madbandit77]

But there's a sense of moral boundaries that needs to be acknowledged. Granted, a grown woman should maintain her sexual well-being, but that doesn't mean the guy shouldn't be held accountable if he takes sexual advantage of that grown woman. If we left things to "biology", we might as well make sexual assault legal.

[@ComicsPerch]

Everyone has personal accountability. Saying the woman has no accountability is wrong, but that doesn’t bypass the man either. With the reputation several of these guys have, you should keep your distance for your own sanity. But that’s not free license to hunt for them men.

[@hennebux]

Lame

[@seminolewind158]

Those of a certain level liked Gaiman. I never fell for that Garbo!