QUANTUM & WOODY IN JULY!!!

[caniac]

We need to merge this thread with the "Forbidden Planet" one

Quotey and Charty together forever!

[hawkeyeps]

We need to merge this thread with the "Forbidden Planet" one

Quotey and Charty together forever!

They could have their own private section....FIGHT CLUB!

[myron]

We need to merge this thread with the "Forbidden Planet" one

Quotey and Charty together forever!

They could have their own private section....FIGHT CLUB!

there is no fight club...

[tarheelmarine]

I was in the minority that was not into Q&W the first time around.

Same here.

I am excited for everyone else here that is looking forward to it. Anyone have an idea what the pre-order numbers look like? I know I am passing on it, but I am curious to see how many other non-valiantfans.com members are going to pick it up.

[KXXX]

I heard that in this one they're gay with each other... and the goat. Pass it on.

[ireactions]

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 by extension, the very contracts themselves) are not enforceable for a very simple reason: the US Government has specific laws WRT assets (including IP) and how they are handled under bankruptcy. Civil contracts CANNOT ever supersede federal law and therefore become null and void. So regardless of whether someone had contracts with Acclaim or not, the second Acclaim filed for bankruptcy all claims against Acclaims asset became subject to existing federal law, and any contract that contained language counter to federal law became void.

termination on bankruptcy -- that as far as I recall wasn't in the Acclaim contracts anyway. The termination and reversion clauses in them were not bankruptcy-linked.

Terminations and reversions that aren't triggered by bankruptcy are different kinds of clauses, and since they're conditions under which the material was purchased, they survive bankruptcy.

Think about it: If bankruptcy simply voided contracts, the publisher wouldn't own anything after bankruptcy, because the contract that gave the publisher any ownership in the first place would have been voided. Bankruptcy doesn't simply void contracts. It does trump termination-on-bankruptcy clauses (and various others), but not all other clauses. The conditions of the purchase (which can include royalties, termination options, assurances of credit, guaranteed shares of licensing moneys and so on) remain the conditions even if the rights and obligations of the company are purchased by someone else.

... contracts are versatile things. There is no one standard work-for-hire deal -- even work-for-hire at Marvel is slightly different from work-for-hire at DC, and there are times that work-for-hire at Marvel is slightly different from other work-for-hire at Marvel.

If anyone tells you all deals of one sort or another are the same, take it with a grain of salt.

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 they're bound by those same strings, as surely as DC is bound by the ASTRO CITY contract I signed with Wildstorm. They bought both assets and obligations. And I say that as someone who signed Acclaim contracts, and went over them carefully at the time.

[MarkRoseHFX]

sup Quotey

[caniac]

Give it up holy *SQUEE* man

[lorddunlow]

sup Quotey

[hawkeyeps]

Le sigh

[manga4life]

Star Wars Episode VII: The Idiot Strikes Back

[KXXX]

Dude can't you see I'm trying to de-rail this thread?

[BugsySig]

Dude can't you see I'm trying to de-rail this thread?

Where's Chiclo when you need him

[kevinbastos]

I was thinking of adding to discussion and advancing debate.

Instead, I will anonymously quote someone 2, 3, or 847 times.

Hooray!

[KXXX]

'Need' is such a strong word.

[KXXX]

I was thinking of adding to discussion and advancing debate.

Instead, I will anonymously quote someone 2, 3, or 847 times.

Hooray!

Bull$#!t

[caniac]

I too was also trying to derail this thread.

[caniac]

*SQUEE* Just Thor....

Just caniac!!!

[myron]

this thread is AWESOME!!!! in a craptacular, train wreck, morbid curiosity kind of way...

hey PSU...watch it with the 'sconi comments there eh...we're not quite that far nort'...not like minnesota eh?


it always amazes me how lawyerspeak messes things up sooooo badly...


thanks to everyone for the waste of time drudging through this mess...

[lorddunlow]

it always amazes me how lawyerspeak messes things up sooooo badly...

One of my favorite episodes of Farscape is when they land on the planet ruled by lawyers. Everything is definitely messed up on that planet.

[Burrito Boy]

I was thinking of adding to discussion and advancing debate.

Instead, I will anonymously quote someone 2, 3, or 847 times.

Hooray!

Bull$#!t

[Shadowman99]

I was thinking of adding to discussion and advancing debate.

Instead, I will anonymously quote someone 2, 3, or 847 times.

Hooray!

Bull$#!t

[BugsySig]

I'm currently just scanning each new post to this thread for jokes. Otherwise, I'm ignoring it all.

Hey Dunlow, what's the only thing worse than a Canadian?

A French-Canadian

[KXXX]

I'm currently just scanning each new post to this thread for jokes. Otherwise, I'm ignoring it all.

Hey Dunlow, what's the only thing worse than a Canadian?

A French-Canadian

Bull$#!t

[lorddunlow]

I'm currently just scanning each new post to this thread for jokes. Otherwise, I'm ignoring it all.

Hey Dunlow, what's the only thing worse than a Canadian?

A French-Canadian