{"id":458,"date":"2012-02-09T00:55:02","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T07:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aberrantpress.com\/blog\/?p=458"},"modified":"2012-02-09T00:55:02","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T07:55:02","slug":"this-is-quickly-becoming-my-year-of-comics-rebellion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aberrantpress.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/09\/this-is-quickly-becoming-my-year-of-comics-rebellion\/","title":{"rendered":"This is Quickly Becoming My Year of Comics Rebellion&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been spending the last week writing a slew of posts about what is going on with DC Comics and the Before Watchmen books they are publishing. Before I could get around to finalizing and posting those, <a href=\"http:\/\/ohdannyboy.blogspot.com.au\/2012\/02\/gary-friedrich-enterprises-llc-et-al-v.html\" title=\"Goddamn it...\" target=\"_blank\">this happened.<\/a> Click that link. It will detail how Marvel Comics not only legally won the rights to a character they didn&#8217;t create, but that the creator now has to pay them $17,000 in legal fees. <\/p>\n<p>This post I had put on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.savagedragon.com\/\" title=\"Erik's site\" target=\"_blank\">Erik Larsen&#8217;s<\/a> link to the story sums up my feelings (edited slightly for this blog):<\/p>\n<p>While legally their right to seek payback on their legal fees, I&#8217;d say that $17,000 for full legal ownership of a character they have made millions off of would have been enough of a bargain. Dick move, sirs. As someone who typically spends about $3,000 a year on comics, I just did the math and have decided to spend $17,000 less on Marvel Comics over the next eight years (even though this will initially hurt current creators more than the company). I think others should do likewise&#8230; Can we do a benefit book for him or something? A Kickstarter campaign?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been spending the last week writing a slew of posts about what is going on with DC Comics and the Before Watchmen books they are publishing. Before I could get around to finalizing and posting those, this happened. Click that link. It will detail how Marvel Comics not only legally won the rights to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,14,113,120,119,118,23,115,117,116,13,114,121],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aberrantpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aberrantpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aberrantpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aberrantpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aberrantpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/aberrantpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":464,"href":"https:\/\/aberrantpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions\/464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aberrantpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aberrantpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aberrantpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}