Good for Neil.

BIG WIN for GAIMAN!!!!

" I'm not a McFarlane fan. Just wanted to make that clear. Neil, all you did was put Spawn on a horse! Is that really creating a new character? How did you get away with this?! "

" @Impling said:

""and I will make some comics charities very happy." ~Neil Gaiman " And that is why we love Neil Gaiman! "

Someone said basically this on twitter, and Erik Larsen's response was essentially: so he rips off someone else's character then gives the proceeds to charity, and for this we love him? "

Personality aside, Gaiman is an exceptional at his profession and he deserves his due 

"@Zoom: For the Spawn series that art has usually been pretty good, but I haven't read the series in quite some time so I have no idea what the current main stream comics look like. I really stopped reading it about five years ago and it was pretty good back then. I think I stopped after the story arc involving the Third Redeemer. "

what a cry baby

"@Impling said:

""and I will make some comics charities very happy." ~Neil Gaiman " And that is why we love Neil Gaiman! "

Someone said basically this on twitter, and Erik Larsen's response was essentially: so he rips off someone else's character then gives the proceeds to charity, and for this we love him? "

Pay up.  Simple as that.  Do the right thing and save some face and pay up right quick like instead of being a super jerk and dragging your heels.

"And that's why we love Erik Larsen!  Gaiman is a good guy and all from what I gather, but to go to these extremes and claim total creativity for a character that, like people have said, is totally and 100% derived from McFarlane's own creation, Spawn, is just complete and utter bull. And then he wins the lawsuit! I saw someone above say that this whole thing is just to get back at McFarlane, and a good portion of me believes that that's exactly why Gaiman is doing this. " 

Can someone explain this to me? I get the idea of that he won the trial and he is owned money, ok, but: why can't someone working in the same series use his designs? 
 
 I mean: when somebody is payed to work in a comic and creates a new charactrer, is he payed everytime that the character or the new design is used? I don't know the answer.  If the answer is "yes" then I get it, if not I don't get it. 
 
He was payed for doing a comic issue that owns to a series, so he created it using the series lore in the first time, so why is he owned money for create something based on something that was created before?

Finally!

finally! 
way to go Mr. Gaiman!

"@cbishop said:

"@Impling said:

""and I will make some comics charities very happy." ~Neil Gaiman " And that is why we love Neil Gaiman! "

Someone said basically this on twitter, and Erik Larsen's response was essentially: so he rips off someone else's character then gives the proceeds to charity, and for this we love him? "

Actually, Gaiman is a very good writer and McFarlane is a very bad writer.  It doesn't matter who is at fault, we all love to see the hero kick the crap out of the villain. "

" @Enyalios: I believe Dark Ages Spawn was created so that Todd could avoid paying Gaiman royalties for Medieval Spawn...they had a contract and McFarlane violated it, not paying Gaiman the royalties they agreed on...however in all reality, the only reason this court case exists is because of Gaiman and McFarlane fighting over the Miracleman rights which I believe has been resolved as well (after so many years) since Marvel is reprinting that stuff now "

Glad Neil got what he should have gotten in the first place.

in comics, a work-for-hire contract means that the level of creativity and originality dips way down, because who's going to put their best work into something they don't own?  If it's not written by the creator now, you can expect it to be crud."

Ah, McFarlane, how the mighty have fallen!

"Considering the quality of your average Image comic vs the quality of the average comic put out by the evil Marvel and DC companies, I'd say this isn't that big of a problem. "

Good. Screw Todd McFarlane. He's an insufferable narcissistic jackass. He gave Gaiman the runaround instead of being up front about things, and now those chickens have come home to roost.

I'm glad Gaiman is finally getting Royalties, cause McFarlane was an ass about that. And he should totally get cred for Dark Ages Spawn too. But Tiffany and other angel hunters created since Angela are McFarlane's creations as far as I'm concerned, especially since Todd did all the art for the original Angela Issue. Gaiman just wrote the story and most of the similarities are in the artwork. So half of this lawsuit is BS. 
 
Anyhow I love both of their work, regardless of their differences.

Justice crawls.

McFarlane  cry me a river 

There both being ass's about it.

I doubt this is the end of it

Wasn't this the principle idea that was discussed in Dave Sim's Spawn issue? Well, kudos to Gaiman for donating to charity in any case, classy act.