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Shadowman99 wrote:

Kurt Busiek wrote: Bull$#!t

Oh dear, I can see that this Kurt Busiek quote is going to become an on-going joke...

This is what I was going for, yes.

Grendel:War Child #1. In the back Wagner is explaining why it took so long to follow up the Comico series. In doing so he inserted an explanation from an industry vet (at the time) who explained a funny set of circumstances. When creators add reversion clauses to their contracts those clauses (and ...

I don't see why manga4life and Bugsy or anyone should be upset to see things they wrote in public shared here. It's their words, why would the sight of things they proudly said in public be embarrassing or upsetting or cause them any trouble?

manga4life says he has won every debate on these matters ...

I also do not understand the hostility against ireactions. From the start, I was hoping that the thread would be about the Quantum and Woody book and not the Priest and Bright issue. But posts after posts kept on discussing the CBR arguments in this thread. It's a literal invitation for somebody ...

No, no. It's a link to a short story similar to KXXX's idea.

I'm getting an idea for a comic book duo. One hunts vacuum salesmen and viciously kills them using a spork, while the other comes up with awesome nicknames for haters and sings to them... also with a spork. We'll call it 'Alligator *SQUEE* House."

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article ...

His keyboard must be broken, all he knows how to do is copy and paste and suck on the nuts of a washed up writer who's best work is behind him. The difference between the Valiant/Acclaim situation and the DC/Wildstorm situation is that Wildstorm was dissolved within an existing company and DC ...

Valiant didn't buy these characters from Acclaim.....they bought them from auction. Legally, mind you. Without the red tape.

VEI owes those of us who worked for Acclaim whatever the contracts say they owe. If they bought the assets, and the assets come with contractual strings attached, then ...

Sorry Manga4Life, but I read that entire thread and watched you get schooled by Kurt Busiek on the complex legality of the comics industry, only for you to embarrass yourself and the rest of this board by shouting "trollolololol" from up on your anti-Creator's Rights soapbox. I love comics, but you ...

Ireactions is so embarrassed and humiliated about being wrong
wrong [rawng, rong] adjective
1. not in accordance with what is morally right or good: a wrong deed.
2. deviating from truth or fact; erroneous: a wrong answer.
3. not correct in action, judgment, opinion, method, etc., as a person; in ...

Wish to apologize for any distress caused. Wished to counter claims that Valiant has no obligation to contracts signed by Acclaim due to bankruptcy.

Want Valiant, Priest and Bright to come to mutually satisfying and beneficial agreement over QUANTUM AND WOODY. James Asmus and Tom Fowler very ...

http://www.comicon.com/ubb/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=157896" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

“We had a right to reversion agreement that was signed by Steve Massarsky, and we had negotiated that before we went out with the book in the first place,” Priest told Newsarama ...

my statement above is based on the assumption that it is his words you are twisting.
Have not altered quotes save in areas with square brackets to indicate own clarifications. Would be pointless. Original thread is online for anyone to verify.

http://forums.comicbookresources.com/showthread.php ...

magnusr wrote:It should also be made clear that ireactions has used the expression "it is true" about something that Priest has denied

Reference unclear. Please link to comment. Will gladly apologize for inaccuracies. If "it is true" used incorrectly, then apologies.

[ireactions] even insults Busiek by twisting his words).

Direct link to Kurt Busiek's response to bugsy: http://forums.comicbookresources.com/showthread.php?448506-EXCLUSIVE-Asmus-amp-Fowler-Resurrect-quot-Quantum-and-Woody-quot&p=16830527&viewfull=1#post16830527" onclick="window.open(this.href ...

Why does Busiek care? VEI is never going to use his version of Ninjak and that's all he did for Acclaim. Unless he is just sticking up for Mark, how did he even get involved in the conversation.

The idea that bankruptcy erases all obligations simply isn't true. I don't know to what extent the ...

if Kevin is correct about what Priest and Bright were told about their attempted buyback, that Acclaim's reasoning made no sense. If they didn't run the contract by someone they should have and still signed it, that doesn't invalidate the contract. Unless there was a clause to that effect, which ...

Thank you for posting that, ireactions. manga4life and BugsySig raise some excellent points in that post stream. Kurt Busiek must be smoking some crystal communism or something because he doesn't seem to get this whole work-for-hire thing.

Royalties and work-for-hire are different things, with ...

I like Kurt, but he has no more knowledge of Priest & Brights contracts than you or I do. What I do know is he agreed that reversion rights clauses terminate on bankruptcy.
It does trump termination-on-bankruptcy clauses (and various others)
That was my entire argument, you moron. That's what ...

I just wanted to share some selected quotes from the thread at the Comic Book Resources forum.

http://forums.comicbookresources.com/printthread.php?t=448506&pp=40&page=1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

When a creator makes a character for a comic book company that character (or ...