New Amalgam comics omnibus omits 2 stories by the awful Gerard Jones
Bounding Into Comics reports a new omnibus collecting Amalgam stories drawing from both Marvel and DC's cast of characters will not include at least 2 stories that were written by convicted child porn collecter Gerard Jones:
Anyway, I'm not especially interested in the Amalgam output, one more reason I can't feel particularly sorry to see some of Jones' resume won't be reprinted as a result of his offenses. His portfolio was worthless, and only served as a precursor to the badness yet to come a decade after he'd foisted it upon comicdom, no thanks to some pretentious editors, of course. And what he did with Obsidian in the pages of Justice League was also inexcusable, and will take ages to repair.
In an understandable yet unfortunate-for-completionists move, Marvel and DC have reportedly moved to omit a pair of one-shots penned by former comic book writer and current convicted pedophile Gerard Jones from their upcoming Amalgam Comics omnibus. [...]Did Jones "redefine" Green Lantern? Tragically, did he ever, and was it a stratospheric embarrassment and atrocity, along with several other examples of comics he'd written for both DC and Marvel. As I'd pointed out a few years ago in the research, Jones was one of the earliest writers who really took far-left politics and propaganda to extremes in mainstream comics, and his approach was quite insufferable. As a result, it won't age well, and it's not hard to see why it may have fared poorly in sales. What he did with Guy Gardner was also repellent, and if that material is never reprinted again, it won't be a loss.
While neither DC nor Marvel have yet to offer any official word as to why the two titles will be omitted from the omnibus, it’s not hard to guess that the decision more or less had to do with the fact that Jones, as noted above, is a convicted sex offender.
Perhaps best known as the author responsible for redefining both Hal Jordan and Guy Gardner’s characters in the 1990s with his work on such titles as Green Lantern Vol. 3, Green Lantern: Emerald Dawn Vol. 1, and Guy Gardner: Reborn Vol. 1 and his co-creation of the Ultraverse character Prime (as well as, strangely enough, for having provided the original translations for Viz Media’s English-language release of the Dragon Ball/Z manga), Jones’ disgusting predilections were first discovered in 2017 when, much to their horror, YouTube discovered that he had been uploading what appeared to be outright child pornography to a private channel.
Anyway, I'm not especially interested in the Amalgam output, one more reason I can't feel particularly sorry to see some of Jones' resume won't be reprinted as a result of his offenses. His portfolio was worthless, and only served as a precursor to the badness yet to come a decade after he'd foisted it upon comicdom, no thanks to some pretentious editors, of course. And what he did with Obsidian in the pages of Justice League was also inexcusable, and will take ages to repair.
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