Re: [scifinoir2] DC Screws McDuffie and Buries Milestone

2009-09-04 Thread Milton Davis
company. --- On Fri, 9/4/09, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: From: Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] DC Screws McDuffie and Buries Milestone To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, September 4, 2009, 4:36 AM   I'm too depressed to comment. I

RE: [scifinoir2] DC Screws McDuffie and Buries Milestone

2009-09-04 Thread Martin Baxter
: Re: [scifinoir2] DC Screws McDuffie and Buries Milestone I'm too depressed to comment. I was with Milestone from the first issues of Hardware, Static (Don't Start None, and there won't be None!), Blood Syndicate, then later, My Name is Holocaust

RE: [scifinoir2] DC Screws McDuffie and Buries Milestone

2009-09-04 Thread Martin Baxter
: [scifinoir2] DC Screws McDuffie and Buries Milestone DC performed the classic big corporation maneuver when confronted with competition; offer the competitor a lot of money and promises then squelch them. The problem with most black comic book artists

Re: [scifinoir2] DC Screws McDuffie and Buries Milestone

2009-09-03 Thread Milton Davis
DC performed the classic big corporation maneuver when confronted with competition; offer the competitor a lot of money and promises then squelch them. The problem with most black comic book artists (and comic book artists in general) is that all they really want to do is work for DC or Marvel.

Re: [scifinoir2] DC Screws McDuffie and Buries Milestone

2009-09-03 Thread Mark Ellis
The only reason DC acquired the Archie/MLJ super-heroes and THUNDER Agents is so they can't be used elsewhere. They had gotten wind of Dynamite's interest in both properties. MarkEllisInk.com Site of best-selling author Mark (James Axler) Ellis --- On Thu, 9/3/09, ravenadal

Re: [scifinoir2] DC Screws McDuffie and Buries Milestone

2009-09-03 Thread Keith Johnson
I'm too depressed to comment. I was with Milestone from the first issues of Hardware, Static (Don't Start None, and there won't be None!), Blood Syndicate, then later, My Name is Holocaust, Shadow Cabinet, Xombi. Great stuff, great to see black people in major roles in comics. Hell, great to