As of now, the Amazon listings for Justice League: Breakdowns and Green Lantern: Hal Jordan Vol. 2 have both been made “unavailable for sale”, and can no longer be directly searched for on the site. They have also been dropped from the Edelweiss site.
The first one was going to collect the “Breakdowns” crossover that ended the Giffen era of the Justice League books, including seven Justice League Europe issues scripted by comic book writer Gerard Jones.
The second one was set to collect the first 12 issues of the 1990 Green Lantern series written by Gerard Jones.
I understand that this is down to the arrest of Gerard Jones on child pornography and related charges, to which he is pleading not guilty.
His work also appears in the just-released Green Lantern Vol 1 which had already hit distribution
It remains to be seen whether The Flash by Mark Waid Vol. 2, which is set to include 3 Green Lantern issues written by Jones (#30-31 and #40) due to crossovers, will have its contents changed.
I did want those GL collections, but I'm not surprised they got cancelled
Joshua White
I have no idea who Gerard Jones is and I know nothing about this situation but isn't this completely fucked up considering he was arrested on SUSPICION of child pornography offences and has not yet stood trial?
Charles Mitchell
DC's cancelled shit for less, even if Jones is declared innocent there's still be a stigma
Jayden Morris
Thanks for nothing, Jones.
I guess the same will go for the rest of his comics? Boris the Bear, Wonder Man, etc.
Wyatt Ward
I can already see the headlines: >DC Comics funds pedophile's trial bills
Jonathan Hughes
Like Marvel was ever going to do a Wonder Man collection anyway
Ryan Rivera
So wait he isn't even guilty yet?
Like does DC expect him to be found guilty? Or are they just stopping any affiliation at the drop of a hat.
Julian Long
Not even if he appeared in a movie or TV series?
Benjamin Phillips
When it's a matter of Think Uf Da Chillumnz, you're guilty until proven innocent by a complete landslide of evidence in your favour and probably not really even after that.
Aiden Wilson
damn, damn, damn, damn. FUCK. We're never gonna get complete JLI huh.
Asher Garcia
>The Shadow Strikes! will never be reprinted I hope the writer is raped everyday at jail.
Oliver Perez
Gerard Jones, Micah Ian Wright...what other DC writers were a burst pimple?
Joshua Barnes
Even if he's guilty, why do the comic books collections have to suffer?
John Cox
John Byrne, of course. And Chris Claremont.
DC has many enemies. If DC reprinted those books, even if the money went to victims of child abuse, they would accuse them of supporting a pedo.
Logan Robinson
>This just in, DC Comics is supporting a Pedophile It's a lose-lose situation. There is no winning choice.
Brandon Carter
>John Byrne, of course. And Chris Claremont. What crimes did they commit?
Easton Sanchez
hurting Sup Forumsmblr's feelings
Tyler Price
Read their comics and you will see.
Jaxon Ross
Can someone explain the context behind the child pornography thing?
Hudson Adams
kill yourself
Sebastian Morales
> Michael Bodley of the San Francisco Chronicle reported that Gerard Jones was arrested by police on suspicion of possessing more than 600 child pornography files, and uploading graphic videos to YouTube. And according to police, that he was booked into jail on suspicion of possession of child pornography, production of child pornography, sending harmful material to a minor and distribution of child pornography. The report states the uploaded videos depict a child performing sexual acts on an adult. And police state other videos showed adults performing sexual acts on children as young as one year old. The report also states that police are investigating the possibility that Jones traveled to London to have sex with a minor.
>uploading graphic videos to YouTube >YouTube Why are criminals so clumsy nowadays?
Elijah Sanchez
I wonder if this will affect the releases of Dragon Ball Full Color in North America, as they use his old translations.
Kevin Edwards
They always can make new translations.
Isaiah Bennett
>This just in, DC Comics is supporting a Pedophile When USA had become a communist country? I always thought that USA was for capitalists?
Nathan Jackson
Even if he somehow is found innocent he'll never live a normal life ever again.
Now someone post those "out of context" GL panels from issues he wrote.
Robert Price
I guess there won't be digital rips either?
Hudson Fisher
The accusation alone can destroy your career. It's the reason women who want to get back at men accuse them of rape even if they're innocent, the noteriety from the accusation will cost them almost everything and if they're really unlucky, maybe even jail time.
Owen Long
At their core, the USA are not communists nor capitalists... they're puritans. Which is the worst thing of all.
Yeah, they had appeared years before this happened. I guess CMX will delete them?
Jordan Allen
Pedos are bad for business
Justin Johnson
>Sup Forums is bad for business The nerve of this user.
Henry Cook
only if you don't know how to market it I mean, comic books are for children, and pedos like children. 2+2=4
Ryan Thomas
thought they found pictures already
Easton Foster
"Today, Michael Bodley of the San Francisco Chronicle reported that Gerard Jones was arrested by police on suspicion of possessing more than 600 child pornography files, and uploading graphic videos to YouTube. And according to police, that he was booked into jail on suspicion of possession of child pornography, production of child pornography, sending harmful material to a minor and distribution of child pornography. The report states the uploaded videos depict a child performing sexual acts on an adult. And police state other videos showed adults performing sexual acts on children as young as one year old. The report also states that police are investigating the possibility that Jones traveled to London to have sex with a minor."
He done, son. He done.
Daniel Myers
"Use our wonderfull comics to stop small children from crying while you abuse them sexually!" PROFIT!
Leo Rodriguez
>Mentioning any defense of accused means you're a pedo
What is this, McCarthyism?
William Hall
How's everything in Thailand, user?
Joshua White
>The report also states that police are investigating the possibility that Jones traveled to London to have sex with a minor.
Well shit, that is terrible. You have to wonder how this kind of shit happens. You spend years writing stories about super-heroes and then you decide that having sex with a one-year old his hot.
Lucas Nguyen
I doubt it
Dominic Scott
Well, they should. Although DC surely will have the comics taken down from CMX too?
John Davis
Wait till he dies
Camden Taylor
>Well, they should
For what purpose? Tons of perfectly good comics taken down because he became a kiddie-diddler 30 years later?
Julian Cox
Read the OP, pedo. Anyone selling Jones books wil be accused of supporting him.
Nathan Campbell
Meanwhile, the Justice League Europe/International is still not availiable digitally
Matthew Brooks
These will cost a fortune in a few years
Jaxson Murphy
I guess those retarded politicians in Finland claiming Dragon Ball normalizes pedophilia were right after all.
Luis Price
What's a burst pimple?
Nicholas Hernandez
>What's a burst pimple?
Shit, forgot the post id
Zachary Rogers
They cost a fortune now.
Jacob Cooper
Whyyy? Can't they just take his name off the books and release them? Will we EVER own all of JLI in trades?
Anthony Gutierrez
>You have to wonder how this kind of shit happens.
Brain damage and brain tumors, assuming he wasn't always a pedo.
Nolan Reyes
I doubt it. They can find a loophole so they don't have to credit him or put his byline in fine print. they're not going to spend the money to have them translated again if they have good translations ready.
Chase Anderson
A reminder that he wrote this.
Liam Reyes
Not surprising. A company will treat a a former employee like they never existed if there's even a hint of suspicion that they committed a crime. As far as the WWE's concerned, Chris Benoit never worked for them.
Charles Scott
I fucking wish we were Puritans, at least then we'd be consistent.
Besides, I wasn't interested in fucking breakdowns, I want the Griffen volumes continued. Not skipped over.
Aiden Johnson
To add on to this, it makes me happy I can pirate comics. Getting official reprints with his name on them probably wont happen from this point on.
Grayson Ramirez
Giffen did write Breakdowns though.
Zachary Martinez
Maybe they could tell those stories again but with a different writer?
Robert Williams
This might be weird to you but a lit of people don't like the idea of someone fucking children. Even hardcore criminals hate pedophiles with a passion so fuck off with your edge
Colton Ward
>Even hardcore criminals hate pedophiles with a passion Welp, Jones won't last much in prison.
Elijah Wood
Yeah, but it wasn't the best stuff. What made JlI so good was the one-offs. The Cat issues. The Guy/Ice relationship. Spending five issues taking the piss at Captain America.
Josiah Roberts
No, in America you can have a drivers license after dozens of DUI's. You can run a scheme that defrauds millions and pay a fine. Its the most bizarre fucking double standard.
People can lose their business for not serving a gay couple, but somehow the government can't stop people from owning assault rifles.
Still, it could be worse. At least he wasn't having dogfights.
Lincoln Torres
NAMbLA pls
Justin Adams
At least he isn't Jared '5.6 terabytes of child porn' Fogle
Austin Russell
The best solution? Some kind scanner make high quality scans of his books. They did that with Miracleman some years ago and the results were excellent.
Andrew Johnson
Don't get that, but okay. Honestly I'm still floored by the one year old. How do you...with a baby? I know he's from San Fran but damn.
Julian Nelson
yeah, pretty much this. The press is always looking for anything they can use to rake DC over the coals, and this would give them a lot of ammo.
Christian Butler
What if the "child pornography files" were stock photos? I'm pretty sure every anatomy book I've ever seen has at least one drawing of a baby dick.
Colton Wilson
You probably don't need 600 photos of children doing sexual acts for artistic reference, user.
Cameron King
I'm on Sup Forums since 2013 when I was 15. The first month I was here I almost quit because I got paranoid when I saw a POV shot of a guy standing over what I suspect is his own baby with his dick out, and the baby was holding on to it. I reported it immediately and it got removed soon, but you can see what kind of place Sup Forums was even 4 years ago. The funny thing is that I am a lolicon and regularly fapped to lolis and pictures of children even then, but that picture weirded me out. Who wants to see babys or one year olds be raped? That's just weird. I've tried toddler loli porn, but I can't seem to ever find it even remotely hot. So yeah, Gerard Jones has shit taste in kiddie porn.
Christian Ross
Edgy, kid.
Michael Harris
He'll most likely end up in a sensitive needs area or put in isolation because wardens know putting a pedo in genpop is a death sentence