Auspicious Timing - Video Interview with Jim Shooter at CBR
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Auspicious Timing - Video Interview with Jim Shooter at CBR
This was recorded at San Diego Comic-Con this year.
Maybe they haven't gotten the memo yet about the lawsuit:
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page ... _id=171459
Maybe they haven't gotten the memo yet about the lawsuit:
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page ... _id=171459
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Thanks for the link!Dr. Solar wrote:This was recorded at San Diego Comic-Con this year.
Maybe they haven't gotten the memo yet about the lawsuit:
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page ... _id=171459
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Some interesting things from the video... particularly the timing of the deal between Dark Horse and Classic Media. Jim said that Dark Horse got the rights "just this week." And the quote "A handshake with Mike Richardson is better than a contract with anybody else" is interesting in light of the events as described by VEI's lawsuit.
Great interview, though.
Great interview, though.
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every picture I've ever seen of him looks like he has horrible acne...which is just an observation, not a knock on the man...Daniel Jackson wrote:Jim didn't look like he was in the best of health in that video. His face had a lot of red blotches on it.
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They were filming outside, so maybe that just makes things look more noticeable. After reading what Jay Jay said about him being sick, I just wondered if maybe he had some ongoing problems.myron wrote:every picture I've ever seen of him looks like he has horrible acne...which is just an observation, not a knock on the man...Daniel Jackson wrote:Jim didn't look like he was in the best of health in that video. His face had a lot of red blotches on it.
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Heath wrote:And the quote "A handshake with Mike Richardson is better than a contract with anybody else"

http://www.illustratedmedia.com/

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whoa...richardson must be tall to be at eye level with jimvikingspawn wrote:Heath wrote:And the quote "A handshake with Mike Richardson is better than a contract with anybody else"
http://www.illustratedmedia.com/
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Maybe he's standing an orange crate.....myron wrote:whoa...richardson must be tall to be at eye level with jimvikingspawn wrote:Heath wrote:And the quote "A handshake with Mike Richardson is better than a contract with anybody else"
http://www.illustratedmedia.com/
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What's interesting about this interview is Jim says something to the effect that he had a lot of ideas from back in the Valiant days that he never got to implement and he would love to dig them up. Could Valiant claim ideas in his 'head' as "intellectual property"?? Obviously it's a stretch, but if years down the road when Dark Horse has established Magnus or Turok or Solar in a new universe and Jim says "I had this idea in my head back in the Valiant days", could VEI come back and sue and say, that idea is Valiant property??
Opens up a whole nother can of worms
Opens up a whole nother can of worms
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I don't think so, that's a stretch.Crow331 wrote:What's interesting about this interview is Jim says something to the effect that he had a lot of ideas from back in the Valiant days that he never got to implement and he would love to dig them up. Could Valiant claim ideas in his 'head' as "intellectual property"?? Obviously it's a stretch, but if years down the road when Dark Horse has established Magnus or Turok or Solar in a new universe and Jim says "I had this idea in my head back in the Valiant days", could VEI come back and sue and say, that idea is Valiant property??
Opens up a whole nother can of worms
I see that in this interview Jim validated the time frame that was described in the lawsuit and also verified that the rights to the characters for new stories were available.
Also in the lawsuit it says he resigned on the 16th and was in SD for the announcement on the 25th (I was there).
Should be interesting at the least.