Waid been getting his ass kissed for so long, that he got intoxicated by his own farts and thought that he was untouchable. Too bad judges don't give a fuck about who wrote Kingdom Come, and care more about tiny dicked tyrants who commit perjury and tort interference.
To be fair, after the fail and AIDS that was "The Kingdom", DC and Alex Ross basically have stated up front that Waid was actually only on Kingdom Come to write dialogue based off of Ross' detailed script outline that Ross and Ross alone had written, along with a couple of super minor things (Waid threw a huge temper tantrum to force Ross to include Martian Manhunter into the plot, as Ross hates Martian Manhunter due to him being excluded from the Super Friends franchise and as such, "not a real JLA member" in Ross's eyes) and coming up with the compromise of using Alan Scott after Ross nearly ragequit the project when DC told him he either had to use Kyle Raynor or not be allowed to use ANY Green Lanterns in Kingdom Come.
Hell, they even had to pre-emptively shit Waid up, when Ross teamed up with Johns do to his own personal sequel to Kingdom Come in JSA; basically when the arc started, DC outright did a press release all but saying Kingdom Come was 100% Ross's baby and as such, he had every write to do his OWN sequel, as opposed to letting the much reviled "The Kingdom" by Waid stand as the only official sequel to the story.
Is there a discovery phase for the Anti-SLAPP motion? Just curious about that.
Someone mentioned this earlier IIRC.
Waid's first attempt to kill the suit was to try and say Richard can't sue in Texas via jurisdictional issues (most likely because Waid realized he would be fucked in the Texas court system). But to do so, he had to delay filing his anti-SLAPP suit since you can't countersue until you found out where the case jurisdiction is.
But in filing for a change of venue, Waid was forced to submit to discovery as far as proving why the jurisdiction needs to change. Which gave Meyers and his lawyers the means to get a TON of material from Waid that basically makes it next to impossible for him to file an Anti-SLAPP lawsuit.
Do you think all of that means he's enough of an idiot to think that he has a shot in court and will refuse to settle? I'd love to see this go to trial, but with what's there I don't see how this doesn't get slapped with a summary judgement. Maybe they'll let a jury figure out how much this idiot owes at least.
He was able to raise a lot of money, his BFF Grant Morrison added to that by giving him a do-nothing office job at the company that publishes Heavy Metal (which Grant now runs as EiC) to give him an extra stream of income (to live off of or to go directly to his defense fund), and a lot of pros were bragging about how they would gladly give him money under the table (there was talk, possibly Tom Taylor, bragging about getting a lot of the Marvel writers all to volunteer to donate the money they make from their books for a single month, to Waid and his defense fund on top of what they were donating via Go Fund Me).
He most likely think he can probably outspend Richard or win by legal trickery to keep it from ever seeing the light of day in court. Fuck, even if Waid DOES lose, he probably would just have Neil Gaiman (who has been white knighting Waid hard on Twitter and shilling lie-filled articles denouncing Comicsgate and claiming that anyone calling his "sources" fake news are liars and blocking them, cut a check to pay Richard Meyers off on Waid's behalf. Or just crowdsource the settlement, as far as pulling an Al Sharpton Rape Hoax move to ensure that someone else literally takes the financial hit so Waid doesn't have to face any financial consequences.
