Remember Chuck Wendig? He’s the Marvel-Star Wars author we told you about last week who went on an unhinged rant at President Donald Trump and the entire GOP.
A rant that has now cost him his job:
#StarWars comic book writer Chuck Wendig says Marvel has fired him over his Twitter behavior https://t.co/Ep2ECpLtTF
— Aaron Couch (@AaronCouch) October 12, 2018
Wendig later tweeted about it, saying Marvel fired him for being “not civil”:
So, here’s a thing that has happened – I just got fired from Marvel. Taken off issues 4 and 5 of SHADOW OF VADER, and taken off an as-yet-unannounced SW book.
This might be a long thread, so apologies in advance.
— Chuck Wendig (@ChuckWendig) October 12, 2018
Today I got the call. I’m fired. Because of the negativity and vulgarity that my tweets bring. Seriously, that’s what Mark, the editor said. It was too much politics, too much vulgarity, too much negativity on my part.
— Chuck Wendig (@ChuckWendig) October 12, 2018
Basically, because I was not civil.
— Chuck Wendig (@ChuckWendig) October 12, 2018
Ya think? When you piss off about half of America, that *might* have consequences. This is what he wrote last week:
Fuck Trump. But he’s just the ugly fake-gold mask they’ve put on this thing. Fuck all the GOP, fuck that blubbering, bristling frat boy judge, fuck McConnell, Ryan, Grassley, Collins, every last one of them. Fuck them for how they’ve shamed victims and helped dismantle democracy.
— Chuck Wendig (@ChuckWendig) October 6, 2018
And he told the “callous f*cknecks, you prolapsed a**holes” to “eat s*it”:
Here is why he was fired, so you can see for yourself. pic.twitter.com/15ISA69WAo
— Mark Kern (@Grummz) October 12, 2018
Wendig then compared his firing to James Gunn, who was fired by Marvel over old tweets joking about child rape:
But it does set a troubling precedent. One we’ve seen already – James Gunn, Jessica White, and so on – of folks fired because they riled up the wasp’s nest of asterisk-gate.
— Chuck Wendig (@ChuckWendig) October 12, 2018
And it seems odd to be mad that I’m mad about politics when – well, look around. Climate change, kids in cages, sexual harassers at the topmost tiers of power, and so on. A call for civility as the PA GOP candidate threatens Tom Wolf with a golf cleat stomping. I dunno, man.
— Chuck Wendig (@ChuckWendig) October 12, 2018
I know it hands Comicsgate a big win. It will embolden them. But they won — I’m out of Marvel and, I guess for now, at least, out of any kind of Star Wars. Do your victory lap, I guess. (Just please leave me out of it.)
— Chuck Wendig (@ChuckWendig) October 12, 2018
Meh.
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