💼 Careercow Mark Waid / William Mark Waid - Comics legend turned laughingstock, SJW lunatic, Dislikes Asians, Sued for Tortious Interference, King Baby, “The Strong Protect The Weak”

[mindlessobserver]

It's not just this stuff. It's also referring to cases as arising under Title 15. I do a lot work with statutes in Title 15, like Truth in Lending Act and Fair Debt Collection Practices Act. I have never heard of cases arising under the multiple statutes in Title 15, including the Sherman, Clayton, and Robinson-Patman acts as well as the Federal Trade Commission Act and the various statutes making up the Consumer Credit Protection Act all lumped together as Title 15 cases.

No, that would be overly broad. Trying to sue using just one part of Title 15 is hard enough, doing multiple things at once is impossible unless you have a huge law firm and even then you may trip. I just find these things fascinating and tend to drink as I read into them, so lots of things present as possible. I am presently studying the law, and have yet to take the bar exam. So to answer your question, no, I am not licensed in any state. I just enjoy autistically reading through federal statutes and case filings.

 

[damian]

Is everybody in the comic book industry a walking, living PR nightmare?

Looks like it, I have enough material to make new threads each week for a couple months. I'm pacing myself and waiting for the best moment to make them, like with Waid.

 

[RodgerDodger]

Is everybody in the comic book industry a walking, living PR nightmare?

Short answer Yes! Long answer Fuck Yes!

In the old days comics were colorful, imaginative and full of impossible beings and monsters. Things that never could exist in nature. They were written by remarkably dull boring and stable middle class white Jewish and Italian family men living in Brooklyn.

These days comics are dull, boring, unimaginative flat and completely uninteresting. They are written by colorful creatures and impossible beings and monsters that do not exist in nature. These monsters mostly live in Brooklyn.

 

[thismanlies]

Looks like it, I have enough material to make new threads each week for a couple months. I'm pacing myself and waiting for the best moment to make them, like with Waid.

It sounds like you could make a sub forum for these people. Between Michelle Perez, Mark Waid, and Aubry Sitterson, I get the feeling that they're only the tip of an iceberg floating in a sea of autism.

 

[RodgerDodger]

It sounds like you could make a sub forum for these people. Between Michelle Perez, Mark Waid, and Aubry Sitterson, I get the feeling that they're only the tip of an iceberg floating in a sea of autism.

Those are just the violent ones. And even a small portion of that. The pool of batshit insane non violent offenders is much deeper.

 

[Slowboat to China]

Not to defend Ryall or Sitterson, but that's Leatherneck and the Drednoks.

Actually, that's Gung-Ho. I have no idea why he's going five-on-one with the Dreadnoks, though, and the cover tells me I don't want to know.

Short answer Yes! Long answer Fuck Yes!

In the old days comics were colorful, imaginative and full of impossible beings and monsters. Things that never could exist in nature. They were written by remarkably dull boring and stable middle class white Jewish and Italian family men living in Brooklyn.

These days comics are dull, boring, unimaginative flat and completely uninteresting. They are written by colorful creatures and impossible beings and monsters that do not exist in nature. These monsters mostly live in Brooklyn.

Amen. Here, have another Winner (or whatever it is we're using now). To write fantasy, it helps to be grounded in reality. If you live in a perpetual fantasy, you've got no roots to draw on, and the result is just a mess.

 

[Windows 98]

the virgin mark waid vs the chad yo boy zack.

amazing how the shittiest quality videos could summon thousands of angry tweets. honestly he holds his phone on his lap and coughs every two seconds, and this is the guy they're pissed at? cows never cease to amaze.

imagine mark choosing to represent himself and coming out troon to the jury.

 

[damian]

Found this searching through stuff (https://archive.li/8qFPS):

 

[Marche]

So glad I stopped reading comics when I did and can just watch them burn so hard. stuff like this is far better than any inevitable market crash.

 

[Hodor]

Go to see this dumbass get his own thread, hopefully at least a part of the other Big two (Marvel and DC for those that don't know what the term means) lolcows will have threads made about them, the comic book industry is full of lolcows ready to be m ilked.
Oh and i heard there's a posibility some of his better comics were ghostwrktten (or was tha Millar and Red)Son?

It's not ghostwriting, but there's rumors that Kingdom Come was more than a little influenced by Alan Moore's (in)famous Twilight of the Superheroes, which was already the stuff of industry legend by the time Kingdom was written and published.

It depends on how stupid he has been. He has worked steadily, almost continually for the major publishers for the past 25 years. He has some creator owned properties such as Irredeemable and Uncorruptable. So in theory he should have ample resources and assets. Assuming he doesn’t lose them all in a lawsuit. Has any of his creator owned stuff ever been optioned by a film studio?

irredeemable got optioned for a movie by Fox.

 

[Pozzingmyfilthyneghole]

I suspect Mark Waid will neck himself soon. He's got no family, he's a friendless asshole without a job.
Time to get a bye-bye bag and helium from amazon.com

 

[RodgerDodger]

I suspect Mark Waid will neck himself soon. He's got no family, he's a friendless asshole without a job.
Time to get a bye-bye bag and helium from amazon.com

I don't think Waid is capable of doing anything that quietly.

 

[Jet Fuel Johnny]

It's nice to see the very people who gatekeep, trash other creators, and form mobs to vote brigade, review brigade, and harass creators they don't agree with starting to get their comeuppance.

Someone a while back in the thread mentioned how the newest crop of spergs seem to hold this opinion that if a writer writes something believable about an antagonist, they must hold those beliefs.

Sperging time on my end...

Spoiler

That is, completely and irrevocably true. From little tweets like "Every time a white writer writes a racist, I go hmmm...." with a GIF of a black woman drinking tea, to flat out "They can't write a Nazi unless they are a Nazi!" bullshit, this shit pollutes comics, tabletop RPG's, literature, screenwriting, and yes, even video games.

Ever wonder why your heroes are over-powered unrelatable caricatures and the antagonists are flatly written (or worse, in the right), it's because of three things...

These people have no actual life experience. They've never gone out and done anything. In the old days a writer usually went out and did shit. Went to war, got in bar fights, was a rodeo clown, drove an ambulance, got married and had kids and a messy divorce, drank themselves stupid and woke up with a suitcase full of guns and money. You know, lived life. Actors were the same way (Jimmy Stewart killed the shit out of some Nazis), so were comic book writers (the old legends did all kinds of shit), and the same with musicians (The Doors, Jimi Hendricks, all those people had a past) and poets.

Now, your "celebrated authors/writers/screenwriters/comic creators" do the "middle class upbrinding/college/job" shit, with a few dicking around on Tumblr for a few years before getting noticed.

So, because they have no experience, everything they create has this weird hollow feeling. Ever notice in modern novels everything takes place in a flat gray space, with no hint about the background, the terrain, any of that? Ever notice the backgrounds for the protagonists all bleed together? To be honest, a LOT of them don't have any imagination. That's why they take over established works, and the things they do create are often lifeless and boring caricatures.

Because of this, most of them can't imagine someone being able to write a racist without being a racist, writing a vile villain without believing as the villain does.

Because they themselves believe everythign the hero believes. The hero isn't a protagonist in the story, the hero is THEM, just inserted into the book to show everyone how right their chosen philosophy is. They have a checklist, from the 3 or 4 chapter story arc to the checklist of characters to the list of acceptable and unacceptable traits for characters.

You see it the most with: "Unless the protagonist perfectly emulates the reader, how can the reader identify with the protagonist" bullshit.

Holy shit, this is getting long, so I'll sum it up...

SJW tards fuck up fictional works because they have no life experience beyond their keyboard and their own social circle. They don't expose themselves to other ideas.

Which is why people like Mark Waid freak the fuck out whenever they can't control and shut down anyone they don't agree with.

They are right, and the other person is WRONG.

TL;DR: I should take up drinking agian.

 

[RodgerDodger]

It's not ghostwriting, but there's rumors that Kingdom Come was more than a little influenced by Alan Moore's (in)famous Twilight of the Superheroes, which was already the stuff of industry legend by the time Kingdom was written and published.


irredeemable got optioned for a movie by Fox.

Which hands it back to Disney... and Disney now HATES him. The Soap Opera just gets better and better. Best Reality show Disney has ever put out

It's not ghostwriting, but there's rumors that Kingdom Come was more than a little influenced by Alan Moore's (in)famous Twilight of the Superheroes, which was already the stuff of industry legend by the time Kingdom was written and published.


irredeemable got optioned for a movie by Fox.

People keep pointing to Kingdom Come as Waids. But that one really isn't. The story was created, established and defined by Alex Ross, the artist. It was HIS Magnum Opus. It even included his father as a insert character/audience narator. And this isn't anything secret. It's actually documented openly in some of the extra materials either in a version of KC or in an Alex Ross DC art book. Waid was assigned to Kingdom Come to help Ross smooth out his story. To do the dialogue and such. Even Waid openly admitted back then that he was a hired gun brought in to help with Alex's story. He did a good job with it. But really the draw for Kingdom Come is the amazing visual storytelling. Not that much of the dialog sticks with you. Contrast that with Millers Dark Knight where the art is serviceable but the lines of dialogue burn trails across your mind.

Waid's never been one of the great poets or literary producers of the industry. He has just been a steady dependable producer of good enjoyable stories for most of his career. At least up until 5 or 6 years ago. After which he went to shit. (When did Twitter become a thing?)

It's nice to see the very people who gatekeep, trash other creators, and form mobs to vote brigade, review brigade, and harass creators they don't agree with starting to get their comeuppance.

Someone a while back in the thread mentioned how the newest crop of spergs seem to hold this opinion that if a writer writes something believable about an antagonist, they must hold those beliefs.

Sperging time on my end...

Spoiler

That is, completely and irrevocably true. From little tweets like "Every time a white writer writes a racist, I go hmmm...." with a GIF of a black woman drinking tea, to flat out "They can't write a Nazi unless they are a Nazi!" bullshit, this shit pollutes comics, tabletop RPG's, literature, screenwriting, and yes, even video games.

Ever wonder why your heroes are over-powered unrelatable caricatures and the antagonists are flatly written (or worse, in the right), it's because of three things...

These people have no actual life experience. They've never gone out and done anything. In the old days a writer usually went out and did shit. Went to war, got in bar fights, was a rodeo clown, drove an ambulance, got married and had kids and a messy divorce, drank themselves stupid and woke up with a suitcase full of guns and money. You know, lived life. Actors were the same way (Jimmy Stewart killed the shit out of some Nazis), so were comic book writers (the old legends did all kinds of shit), and the same with musicians (The Doors, Jimi Hendricks, all those people had a past) and poets.

Now, your "celebrated authors/writers/screenwriters/comic creators" do the "middle class upbrinding/college/job" shit, with a few dicking around on Tumblr for a few years before getting noticed.

So, because they have no experience, everything they create has this weird hollow feeling. Ever notice in modern novels everything takes place in a flat gray space, with no hint about the background, the terrain, any of that? Ever notice the backgrounds for the protagonists all bleed together? To be honest, a LOT of them don't have any imagination. That's why they take over established works, and the things they do create are often lifeless and boring caricatures.

Because of this, most of them can't imagine someone being able to write a racist without being a racist, writing a vile villain without believing as the villain does.

Because they themselves believe everythign the hero believes. The hero isn't a protagonist in the story, the hero is THEM, just inserted into the book to show everyone how right their chosen philosophy is. They have a checklist, from the 3 or 4 chapter story arc to the checklist of characters to the list of acceptable and unacceptable traits for characters.

You see it the most with: "Unless the protagonist perfectly emulates the reader, how can the reader identify with the protagonist" bullshit.

Holy shit, this is getting long, so I'll sum it up...

SJW tards fuck up fictional works because they have no life experience beyond their keyboard and their own social circle. They don't expose themselves to other ideas.

Which is why people like Mark Waid freak the fuck out whenever they can't control and shut down anyone they don't agree with.

They are right, and the other person is WRONG.

TL;DR: I should take up drinking agian.

That's the strange thing about Waid. He isn't one of these clueless newbs with no life experience. He's been doing this since the 80's or 90's. He has a deep body of work and much of it is objectively good. And then somewhere a few years back he just went mad.

 

[Jet Fuel Johnny]

That's the strange thing about Waid. He isn't one of these clueless newbs with no life experience. He's been doing this since the 80's or 90's. He has a deep body of work and much of it is objectively good. And then somewhere a few years back he just went mad.

I think he's ALWAYS been a shithead.

Spoiler

That stuff with the wreath should have gotten him an ass kicking at least, black listing and ostracised at best. He was probably one of those "When the Revolution comes you'll be first against the wall..." type guys. He probably had all the "right" friends, lived in the right neighborhood, and subscribed the right ethics and morality. He was probably insuffereable as shit too. As he got more and more popular, he began throwing his weight around more and more, and people didn't want to do anything to stifle his creativity or whatever, and let him act like a spoiled fucking toddler. Just because that particular spoiled toddler could do decent work if you patted his head and gave him a better cookie than everyone else or whatever it was his inflating ego wanted.

Then some sperg with a shitty camera-phone comes along and does what is positively not allowed: Mock his industry.

Once that happened, he journeyed out onto social media, surrounded by his peers (who believed, like him, that they could do no wrong and nobody dared reign them in), and ran face first into internet culture. Since he couldn't automatically shut people down, shut everyone up, and make everyone act the way he wanted to by throwing fits, his temper tantrums got bigger and bigger, until they matched his ego.

Which is why he thought he could get away with the shit he pulled. Because nobody has really told him no in years.

I'll bet right now he still thinks he's going to come out on top, because to him, he always has. He's smarter, more talented, cannier, and more moral than all his opponents. He probably thinks he's made enough connections and virtue signalled hard enough that even the gunslingers working for the House of Mouse can't touch him if he just virtue signals the right way, or has people who agree with him continue his work.

He's no different than Scalzi, Martin, or Joss Wedon.

TD;RL: Mark Waid is a fat toddler who's never been refused anything he wanted except for the love of a woman and a family legacy.

 

[AnOminous]

No, that would be overly broad. Trying to sue using just one part of Title 15 is hard enough, doing multiple things at once is impossible unless you have a huge law firm and even then you may trip.

The current action isn't a lawsuit as such. It's a complaint to the FTC, and it's up to the FTC whether it does anything about this. If it does, then that might be an administrative action or the FTC might file a lawsuit in an actual federal court. Title 15 is full of all kinds of things and various chapters do things like create administrative agencies (like the FTC) related to commerce, create private causes of action for things like trademark infringement (Lanham Act). A lot of times, these acts (also including the Lanham Act) have provisions that aren't in Title 15 at all, but are instead scattered elsewhere through the U.S. Code.

What's currently happening in the FTC (created under Title 15) would probably be handled under administrative law, which isn't even governed directly by the U.S. Code but by the Code of Federal Regulations (which has its own Title 15).

So it's mildly misleading to call them Title 15 actions, as such. If D&C wants to go forward with any action if the FTC doesn't do anything (and he might have to exhaust his administrative remedies before the FTC before doing this), he'd probably be suing under a variety of statutes, quite possibly including a combination of federal and state causes of action (including statutory and common law claims), as well as injunctive relief of some sort.

What that would look like would depend on how broadly counsel thinks this is worth going after. It could range from picking one or two particularly strong causes of action to a monstrously complicated kitchen sink complaint.

I'd think somewhere in the middle is more likely, although it's entirely possible his lawyer will tell him it's just not worth pursuing at all.

That issue, unlike the rest of this, is really idiot simple. Does Waid have enough to pay a judgment? If not, can anyone else be held responsible vicariously for his actions, or did anyone actually tell him to do this or conspire to do it with him, or deliberately turn a blind eye to it? Waid being a dick for months on social media didn't break the law by itself, and they have apparently at least tried to shut him up very soon after he overtly broke the law? If the answer to both is no, it's not worth bothering no matter how good the claims.

I suspect Mark Waid will neck himself soon. He's got no family, he's a friendless asshole without a job.
Time to get a bye-bye bag and helium from amazon.com

>he's a social justice warrior
>on the internet
>he fights about comics
>he does it for free
>he takes his "job" very seriously
>he does it because it is the only amount of power & control he will ever have in his pathetic life
>he terrorizes publishers into dropping comics he doesn't like because whenever he gets triggered he has a PTSD attack
>he threatens people he doesn't like if they go to a comic con because they interfere with the large backlog of underage dangerhair girls he has to m'lady
>he will never have a real job
>he will never read an actual book without pictures
>he will never be mentally healthy
>he will never know how to write anything besides capeshit
>he will never have a girlfriend
>he will never have any friends

 

[Ponderous Pillock]

"Mark...Please see me in my office."
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Like he'd use "Mark" it'd be "Misssssssster Waid.... not that I wish to imply you have been sleeping on. The. Job...."

Just looked him up.....Jesus christ

Look at those eyes. He looks like the head of HR in Hell.

Sucks to be Mark if his bullshit antics turn that warm un-smile into a frown.

those are the eyes of a man who would sue a preschool for copyright infringement. And win.

Interestingly the suing of the daycares (or threatening to) was long before Braverman's involvement in the House of Mouse. He is very much an Bob Iger-faction man (and thus by extension, Roy C Disney) and is part of the cleanup crew which came in and fixed the mess Eisner left the company in back in 2003. Disney's far more "light touch" attitude to fans copyright infringing seems to largely be down to his direction.

That being said, it's not all fun and games, Braverman is a former employee of what is now WilmerHale, and was named partner in said firm's D.C Office after being there for just 7 years, which considering how WilmerHale doesn't such much have a hiring policy as an outright lawyer-based battle royale says this is a man in the same league as the Rothschilds in terms of "Do not piss off."

 

[Arctic]

What gets me is that this is a 56 year old man acting like a fucking 12 year old on the Internet. Every single social media account he has is full of temper tantrums that wouldn't look out of place from someone a third of his age. I know quite a few older people with social media accounts, and they mostly stay quiet, content with sharing stupid pictures and jokes. But this dude flies off the handle at every perceived slight.

Not to mention, this dude's supposed to be a professional (keyword: supposed). Professionals shouldn't act like this, but then again, it does say a lot that he's not the only dumbass at Marvel pulling this shit.

He's far from the only one from his generation to do this though. Boomers and Twitter are like Indians and alcohol: They never developed the culture to deal with the emotional response that it generates in them.

 

[Someone in a Tree]

It's nice to see the very people who gatekeep, trash other creators, and form mobs to vote brigade, review brigade, and harass creators they don't agree with starting to get their comeuppance.

Someone a while back in the thread mentioned how the newest crop of spergs seem to hold this opinion that if a writer writes something believable about an antagonist, they must hold those beliefs.

Sperging time on my end...

Spoiler

That is, completely and irrevocably true. From little tweets like "Every time a white writer writes a racist, I go hmmm...." with a GIF of a black woman drinking tea, to flat out "They can't write a Nazi unless they are a Nazi!" bullshit, this shit pollutes comics, tabletop RPG's, literature, screenwriting, and yes, even video games.

Ever wonder why your heroes are over-powered unrelatable caricatures and the antagonists are flatly written (or worse, in the right), it's because of three things...

These people have no actual life experience. They've never gone out and done anything. In the old days a writer usually went out and did shit. Went to war, got in bar fights, was a rodeo clown, drove an ambulance, got married and had kids and a messy divorce, drank themselves stupid and woke up with a suitcase full of guns and money. You know, lived life. Actors were the same way (Jimmy Stewart killed the shit out of some Nazis), so were comic book writers (the old legends did all kinds of shit), and the same with musicians (The Doors, Jimi Hendricks, all those people had a past) and poets.

Now, your "celebrated authors/writers/screenwriters/comic creators" do the "middle class upbrinding/college/job" shit, with a few dicking around on Tumblr for a few years before getting noticed.

So, because they have no experience, everything they create has this weird hollow feeling. Ever notice in modern novels everything takes place in a flat gray space, with no hint about the background, the terrain, any of that? Ever notice the backgrounds for the protagonists all bleed together? To be honest, a LOT of them don't have any imagination. That's why they take over established works, and the things they do create are often lifeless and boring caricatures.

Because of this, most of them can't imagine someone being able to write a racist without being a racist, writing a vile villain without believing as the villain does.

Because they themselves believe everythign the hero believes. The hero isn't a protagonist in the story, the hero is THEM, just inserted into the book to show everyone how right their chosen philosophy is. They have a checklist, from the 3 or 4 chapter story arc to the checklist of characters to the list of acceptable and unacceptable traits for characters.

You see it the most with: "Unless the protagonist perfectly emulates the reader, how can the reader identify with the protagonist" bullshit.

Holy shit, this is getting long, so I'll sum it up...

SJW tards fuck up fictional works because they have no life experience beyond their keyboard and their own social circle. They don't expose themselves to other ideas.

Which is why people like Mark Waid freak the fuck out whenever they can't control and shut down anyone they don't agree with.

They are right, and the other person is WRONG.

TL;DR: I should take up drinking agian.

Some of these people must think Randy Newman is the worst person on the planet.

 

[Oh Long Johnson]

Now, I don't know shit about shit but it seems to me the real meat of any FTC action or lolsuit armageddon will come from who this idiot talked to, emailed and tweeted at before and after making his call to the publisher. Industry contacts is bad but coworkers is bad times a million. One guy being an idiot is understandable. One guy roping in half your office to commit actions relating to unfair trade practices against some schmuck will get the hammer.