I loved that the Image guys turned into a worse tyrants than brass at the companies they hated so much. Mcfarlane is a piece of work.
The issue that Gaiman wrote was one of the few early issues of Spawn that was actually readable and entertaining. Angela and Medieval Spawn added a lot to the backstory of that series. To thinly recreate the characters in order to avoid paying Gaiman is a weasel move. --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, "Kelwyn" <ravena...@...> wrote: > > http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/lifestyle/biff-zap-pow-comic-book-heavyweights-clash-again-over-spawn-copyrights-in-federal-court-96259334.html > > Sci-fi writer Neil Gaiman and former Spider-Man artist Todd McFarlane's > attorneys have been sparring for years over Gaiman's claims to a handful of > characters created for McFarlane's classic Spawn series, which features a > murdered CIA agent who becomes a demon. > > Now Gaiman insists McFarlane owes him for three more characters a demon > named Dark Ages Spawn and two avenging angels in thong bikinis. A federal > judge in Madison has scheduled a Monday hearing to listen to both sides' > arguments. >
