WILL DRAW FOR COFFEE

David Wynne is a cartoonist from South East London, now living in Hove. He also works as a carer for adults with learning difficulties. He does not take private commissions at present, but is available for commercial work like gig posters, album covers, and of course comics. Email [email protected] for prices. He is the co-creator of the webcomic SPACESCAPE! which you should definitely read (follow the tumblr- spacescapecomic.tumblr.com) as well as the award-winning (for whatever that's worth) all-ages superhero comic Hypergirl, published by Markosia (look it up on comixology!), and the creator of cult (ish) sci-fi hero Ideasman, who you can read more about at ideasmancomic.tumblr.com.He likes Batman, loud music, and food; plays the guitar a bit, and probably drinks more than he should.

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Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men, Episode 192 – Meet the N-Men

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In which Alan Davis’s Excalibur is a spiritual sibling to The Muppet Show; Captain Britain gets a Captain Britain lesson; Opal Luna Saturnyne has no time for your nonsense; Meggan and Rachel take a brief detour into a Hammer film; Earth-148 is extra heroic; no member of Excalibur will ever use a bathroom in peace; Cerise joins the team; Technet embraces the future; and the end of the world is nigh.

X-PLAINED:

Pixie’s powers and parentage

Several eccentricities of Jay’s apartment

Excalibur #45-47

Earth-148 (Ee’rath)

Comics pacing vs. podcast pacing

Technet (more) (again)

Amelia Witherspoon and several references related thereto

The N-Men

How to Captain Britain

The multiversal significance of the lighthouse

A portentous chess game

A particularly aggressive retcon

The return of the Neuri

The real Meggan

Necrom

A heroic death

The true curse of Excalibur

Some very specific citations

A reunion

Kylun (Colin McKay)

A blessed event

Cerise

Whether Rogue can control Cyclops’s powers

Laura Kinney’s upcoming reversion to X-23

NEXT EPISODE: Bishop joins the X-Men!

ENTIRELY IRRELEVANT UPDATE: The wall on which Jay was attempting to mount a desk turned out to be plaster over sheetrock. Office plans are being revised accordingly.

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Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men, Episode 185 – Becoming Wolverine (feat. Tom Taylor)

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In which All-New Wolverine and X-Men Red writer Tom Taylor joins us to talk friendship, heroism, pelican statues, and how to build on legacy without being bogged down by it.

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The epic awesomeness of Gabrielle Kinney

All-New Wolverine

The evolution of Best Wolverine

Character-first story

Family

X-Men Red

Finding Jean Grey’s voice

Gentle (Nezhno Abidemi)

Transcending the Silver Age

Laura Kinney in Logan

Wolverine-style brain surgery

Editing down to the bones

Tom’s comfort reads

Secret origins of Tom Taylor

Writing like a street performer

Koalas vs. reavers

NEXT EPISODE: The Boringest Rasputin

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Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men, Episode 182 – Lunch With Technet

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In which Alan Davis spins dangling plot threads into gold; comics artists are storytellers; Technet is a feature, not a bug; Brian Braddock’s issues reach their boiling point; if you’re going to learn about Earth from TV, you should probably stick with PBS; and our Lila Cheney t-shirts are officially canon!

X-PLAINED:

An unlikely alliance

Jay & Miles at Emerald City Comic Con

Alan Davis’s return to Excalibur

Excalibur #42-45

Breakfast with Excalibur

Hard-Boiled Henry

Horatio Cringebottom

Bert

Earth-148 (Ee’arth)

Kylun (Colin McKay)

Unlikely houseguests

A romance

A fracas

The trial of Captain Britain

Multiversal moral relativity

Micromax ([name])

Lunch with Technet

Why public television funding is important

How Shadowcat’s phasing interacts with extreme temperatures

Our opinions on X-Men: Gold Annual #1

NEXT EPISODE: Omega Red!

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Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men, Episode 178 – Giant-Size Special #6

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In which we enter a new era of X-Men; Magneto reluctantly returns to villainy; Jay tries to like X-Men volume 2; when in doubt, you should open your story with a space fight; Nick Fury has so many pouches; experimenting on babies unsurprisingly backfires; psychic powers are pink; Claremont deserved better; Producer Matt makes his on-air debut; and you (yes, you!) are once again the recipients of a Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau Award for Excellence in X-Cellence.

X-PLAINED:

Loa

The 1991 relaunch of X-Men

X-Men vol. 2 #1-3

Chris Claremont’s departure from Marvel

X-Men vs. Uncanny X-Men

Blue Team

Gold Team

Why Magneto is emblematic of Claremont’s vision for the X-Men

Why there are so many copies of X-Men #1

How comics sales are counted

Our very different perspectives on X-Men #1

A space fight

Revision vs. reversion

What may or may not be in Nick Fury’s pouches

Daring loungewear worn well

Fabian Cortez

Flatscans

Disproportionate escalation

The Acolytes

Delgado, kind of, maybe

Several notable absences

The Magneto Protocols

That one time Magneto got turned into a baby

Some dubious science

A semi-invisible plane

Code Silver

Further miracles of magnetism

Producer Matt Hunter

Chiptunes

Podcasting about video games

The Fourth Annual Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau Awards for Excellence at X-Cellence

Best X-Toon holiday episodes

NEXT EPISODE: Havok gets a job!

Special thanks to Cordelia for her help on the episode opening!

It’s Christmas Eve, and Jay is very tired and has very little Internet, so the visual companion to this episode will be up later this week. Happy Holidays!

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[unsworn]

UNSWORN: THE BLOODY BLACK BULL part 14

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[davidwynne]

Forgot to reblog this yesterday.

No comic coming today though. Will double up tomorrow.

[tessfowler-deactivated20240203]

Amoeba finds.

[davidwynne]

I’ve got this one. That cover is amazing.

In the last few years I’ve really come to hate the Comics Journal and what it stands for on an editorial level... but some of the issues, especially these later book-sized ones, are really nice objects.

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Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men, Episode 174 – Ed Piskor’s Grand Design

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In which Jay sits down with cartoonist Ed Piskor to talk about the upcoming X-Men: Grand Design!

NEXT EPISODE: X-Men: Gal Pals!

The visual companion to this episode can be found in X-Men: Grand Design #1, available from your local comics shop this December!

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[davidwynne]

I drew the wrong bloody X-Men cover.

[unsworn]

UNSWORN: THE BLOODY BLACK BULL part 13

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Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men, Episode 173 – The Muir Island Saga, Part 2

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In which Abs-lantis will not be denied; “slightly traumatized” is basically the default state of Xavier’s original students; we pick up the slack for Nicieza; Banshee and Moira MacTaggert probably have an active and varied love life; Xavier miscounts the X-Men; we look back over the Claremont/Simonson era of the X-Universe; and Jay makes a case for the re-resurrection of Jean Grey.

X-PLAINED:

X-Men: Red

Namor’s beard

The conclusion of the Muir Island Saga

Uncanny X-Men #280

X-Factor #70.

Cool orange spacesuits that make you immune to telepathy

Off-brand Magneto hats

Literary terrors of our childhoods

Agents DeMarco & Heacock (R.I.P.)

Casual use of nuclear weaponry

The cavalry

The end of the Shadow King

The most dysfunctional timeline

Uncanny X-Men #200-278

The case for an eclectic X-Universe

X-Campus

Resurrections, and when they do and don’t work

NEXT EPISODE: Ed Piskor’s Grand Design

The visual companion to this episode will be up later this week, by which point Jay’s lungs will hopefully be working again. Yay?

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[postcardsfromspace]

INTERNET! WE MADE YOU A PODCAST! THIS WEEK IT IS FAIRLY REFLECTIVE!

[unsworn]

UNSWORN: THE BLOODY BLACK BULL part 12

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[unsworn]

UNSWORN: THE BLOODY BLACK BULL part 11

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[unsworn]

UNSWORN: THE BLOODY BLACK BULL part 10

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UNSWORN: THE BLOODY BLACK BULL part 9

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[unsworn]

UNSWORN: THE BLOODY BLACK BULL part 8

BACK AGAIN! Sorry for the unscheduled break. Life stuff. Won’t happen again any time soon, although, fair warning, tomorrow’s strip will be a few hours late.

 In other news, I bought a website for this comic, it’s taking me a little while to get that up and running, but that’s a thing. Should be a going concern before christmas.

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[davidwynne]

Just realised I haven’t reblogged the comic in a while... lots of strips incoming

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172 – The Muir Island Saga, Part 1

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In which you are probably more familiar with this show than Jay and Miles are; Paul Smith makes good art; the Shadow King is so extra that his narration has its own narration; Evil Sexy Moira is a fashion queen; there are absolutely no circumstances in which it is appropriate to use the phrase “fist-o-rama”; Legion gets possessed; and we know absolutely nothing about Pokémon.

X-PLAINED:

Universes where people are other people

What Miles thought of Thor: Ragnorok (spoiler-free)

The Muir Island Saga (Part 1)

Uncanny X-Men #278-279

X-Factor #69

Teflon continuity

Our (lack of) favorite episodes of Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

The Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men wiki

An alternate timeline

Corpse telepathy

A diabolical plan, sort of

Topicality

Theft

Sci-Fi Warlord Moira MacTaggert

Improbable aerodynamics

The greatest thing

The death of Peter Nicholas

The uncanny genital valley

Interesting ways to expand Cyclops’s powers

X-Pokémon

NEXT EPISODE: The Muir Island Saga concludes!

ART CHALLENGE: Send us your horrifying X-Pokémon! (Note: We were not kidding when we said that we know absolutely nothing about Pokémon, which means that we will probably believe anything you tell us about canon. Have fun!)

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[iandsharman]

The story first broke at Bleeding Cool, with artist Tess Fowler alleging an unnamed, but well known creator had sexually harassed her at SDCC 2007. This creator “feign[ed] interest in my pursuit of a comic career,” and asked her up to his room. She declined the offer. He later insulted her work and person on Facebook.

This article was posted almost exactly four years ago. At the time Brian Wood was writing for Dark Horse comics. He is still writing for Dark Horse comics.

In the post from this blog that the article links to Tess Fowler refers to George Perez as being one of the good guys. I’m sure that when she wrote the tweets I was quoting she sincerely believed that. I had no reason to doubt it at the time either. However, since then multiple friends have told me that they were groped at a convention by George Perez.

Why haven’t them come forward with these accusations publicly? Well, accusations of sexual assault can, indeed, end careers and damage lives, but it’s rarely the lives and careers of the harassers that are destroyed.

You just have to look at the recent revelations regarding Eddie Berganza to see that. None of the women he harassed are working at DC any longer, and yet he has been repeatedly promoted since his actions were first reported, And even now has only been suspended pending a review of the allegations against him.

And, of course, Tess Fowler herself was effectively used by Rat Queens writer Kurtis Weibe, as being someone who had spoken out about sexual harassment in the comics industry, to keep the book going while people had time to forget that the series’ original artist, Roc Upchurch, had been arrested on charges of domestic abuse. When she asked if Upchurch would return to the book she was explicitly told that would not happen. It did.

Meanwhile, as I said before, Brian Wood is still writing for Dark Horse.

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At DC Comics, An Editor Rose Through The Ranks Even After Being Accused Of Sexual Harassment

At least two female employees at the publishing giant DC Comics accused a top editor of trying to forcibly kiss or grope them. He was promoted anyway. Two years later, he was accused of doing it again

I am so, so proud to have been part of this, alongside BuzzFeed’s Jessica Testa and Tyler Kingkade; and all the brave, amazing comics pros who spoke up.

This is the sum of about three years of groundwork; and even then, it wouldn’t have been possible without BuzzFeed’s support.

Which brings up an important thing that I think a lot of folks miss in the furor of breaking accounts: Reporting harassment stories right is hard. Yeah, you can post prurient blind items; but making something stick, and making sure it has the potential to have the impact it should? That takes a lot of work; and it takes a platform and really good editorial and legal oversight.

The sea change of the last few weeks is huge: for the first time, the news outlets that have the resources to run this stuff care about it. I tried to pitch this for years, and got told over and over that it was too niche, or that maybe could it be an op-ed, or–you get the idea.

BuzzFeed ran this through the news desk. Not entertainment desk. Not arts. News.

And that?

That matters so much.

(My e-mail address isn’t visible on the post because of a glitch. If you want to get in touch, or have tips about similar stories, you can reach me at jay(dot)edidin(at)gmail(dot)com.)

[davidwynne]

Particularly proud of my friend today.