![]() We love that this is part of the legal record. Go ahead, guess which founder of Image gets called out almost immediately once they get going about the company’s early days:Īnd when Image started, they were getting a lot of stick from fans and from the comics press for being illiterate garbage, which is probably a polite way of putting the things they were saying about the comics, chiefly those written by Rob Liefeld.Īlso, McFarlane called himself “The Todd-Meister” back in the ’90s. Not that McFarlane is the only one who comes in for a beating. ![]() ![]() …later I remember somebody coming up to me in the DC offices showing me Spider-Man #1, which Todd drew and which people thought was very funny because the writing demonstrated that the person writing it had never written anything before. The testimony, once you get through the niceties, starts off with this: ![]() Needless to say, there’s little love lost between Gaiman and McFarlane. Posted by the Aussie comics blog 20th Century Danny Boy, the testimony is something to behold. ![]() But we do finally have Neil Gaiman’s testimony in the case, and hoo boy, he didn’t hold back. It’s a pretty bizarre and elaborate case, and we’ve never gotten the full story. You might remember a little while back that Todd McFarlane lost a rather large court judgement to Neil Gaiman, which coincidentally freed up the rights to the seminal ’80s comic Miracleman and got Marvel the reprint rights. ![]()
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