I keep understanding more and more why more and more comics creators are working on indie comics, or for more consortium-like publishers like Image. While there's a lot to be admired for the big playground and shared universe of DC or Marvel, the corporate mentality of the vast entertainment conglomerates behind them is … villainous.
Who created Caitlin Snow on #TheFlash? According to @DCComics, nobody
Who created Caitlin Snow, the alter ego of Firestorm super-villain Killer Frost, who appears regularly on The Flash?
According to DC Entertainment, nobody.
That’s right. Caitlin Snow, the brilliant…
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This is ridiculous. Shouldn't something like this be illegal? Is it already illegal and just not being enforced?
It's sad that DC (and probably others) do this crap. It's not like their hurting for money. What's even sadder is that news like this probably wont slow down the people who would jump at the chance to work for them simply because of the prestige and the chance to have DC Comics listed on their resume.
+Alysha DeShaé Terry The case law and IP law around comics creation is … complicated and murky. There have been moments of justice, periods of partial justice, and lots of simple exploitation.
+Marty Shaw The difference now is that a creator working for the Big Two now knows what they are getting into (though, as Conway's tale indicates, it continues to evolve).
Yes, it's a cool thing for the resume — and, honestly, if I had an opportunity to write for Marvel (or maybe DC), yeah, I'd leap at the chance to play in that toy box … while acknowledging that the toys all belong to someone else.
That's just sad, +Dave Hill. But the more publicity this sort of thing gets the better the chances of it changing are!
+Alysha DeShaé Terry Maybe. Some recent big law suits over comics have drawn lots of public attention. But I've yet to meet a comics fan who wouldn't read Title X because a writer was screwed out of a just share of the profits for the start of that comic. And the money behind IP acquisition and lock-down is staggering.