B, thanks for explaining the reason why I'd slip Gaiman the chainsaws... And rave, you're a brave man for venturing into the Moonie Times to find this article. My hat comes off to you again.
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 10:18 AM, B Smith <daikaij...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > 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 <scifinoir2%40yahoogroups.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. > > > > > -- "If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script?" -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
