kirkjt

January 7, 2011 3:36 pm I love creative people.  I love talented people who make things that others enjoy consuming.  However, why is "creator's rights" such an issue in the comic book world?  How many of you work for a place either creating software, designing products, selling solutions etc. and retain no ongoing rights to that prduct?  If I want to own the rights to everything I do then I need to go out on my own, find my own financing and take all the risks.  If I want to work at a Fortune 500 company and do that same thing then my risks are minimal but also I do not retain the rights to any of it.

That is the corporate world, the end.  Alan Moore, you should have written Watchmen as an Indie comic and retained your rights.  There is a good chance it would have sold 5,000 copies and never gotten the exposure it did, but it would be all yours.  However, you didn't so deal with it.  Someone else owns it, they financed it, you did the work for hire and they own it.

 

October 5, 2010 11:21 am It's amazing how our personal situations impact our perceptions.  I didn;t own Superman II on VHS but it was on HEAVY ROTATION on HBO as I was like 10 or 11 years old and I must have watched that film 100 times.  I have a huge sweet spot for it and feel for it like you do Superman III which I really didn;t enjoy.

August 26, 2010 9:45 am Definitely the 1970's, I had a few Batman Family issues that are from my original "bought as a kid" comics and it was mid to late 70's.

July 14, 2010 10:35 am I can't believe that you've never watch The Big Bang Theory.  It is one of the best comedies on TV right now.  Very well written and even though many of us are part of the joke it never makes fun of the lifestyle in a bad way.

June 29, 2010 11:48 am

What about females?  Wonder Woman?  Batgirl?

 Zatanna!?!?

February 18, 2010 1:42 pm My favorite was actually

Stand Soul Survivors #4 (OF 5)

August 31, 2009 11:32 am i am very glad that i stopped buying Marvel titles, but kept buying the stock.

August 11, 2009 5:21 pm

I was in Chicago and Rob stayed at the same hotel as I did.  He ate  dinner at the table behind me, I said "hi" to him and he said 'hi" back.  I told my 8 year old son who he was and he thought it was cool that he made comics and was sitting at the table behind us.  I told him that he doesn't draw feet well and he wasn't my favorite creator, but that I respected his success.

In the end I personally don't think anyone owes anyone an apology for what they create, you can like it or not that's your call.  In the end my son thinking he was cool because he got to draw Marvel comics was enough for me.  I have no ill will towards him.

May 13, 2009 1:14 pm I just turned 40 and I still have one, we'll see.  I think I may not have a 'pull list' because it may all be trades or digital by then ...

February 5, 2009 4:20 pm

I find it interesting that Marvel and DC love stopping established books and relaunching them as #1s.  They think it increases sales, and it may for a few issues.  However, this is what made it easier for me to dump books.  I used to buy Amazing Spider-Man just because I had bought it for the prior 200 issues or so.  Then they restarted the numbers and it was an easy jumping off point (they have since reinstated the old numbers but I was already gone). 

I used to have a harder time dropping books but those changes made it easier.

That being said I'll always buy Green Lantern even if it's drawn in crayon and written by Charlie from Flowers for Algernon.