It's not about racism *or* sexism, HUZZAH!!
This wank has comic fans getting ripped off, Doctor Strange telling someone to fuck off and John Byrne actually being a nice man (Though he'l probably still deny he's Canadian).

Forum structures make formatting this in an organised maner hard, so I apologise for that, but I figured that questions of professionalism, blatant lying, threatening lawsuits and one of the better spelling wanks on the side made it worth it.


It seems that comic artist Michael Golden is doing cons and comissions again. The only problem is that he seems to be taking a bit longer than expected to complete comissions. It seems that art he promised to finish in 2 months has been taking much, much longer. Though, he claims that he never promised it in that time or industry work comes first or verbal contracts don't count or something. Apparently, four individuals who had each paid several hundres dollars may have tried to check in and see why there art was taking several extra months and/or threatened Mr Golden, depending on which side you ask. As a result, Michael Golden sent each of them super-half-assed pieces that barely met their comission descriptions and at least two of them have confirmed they have the message written on them, "Patience is a Virtue". Golden gets bonus points for mispelling "Virtue" on one of them, instantly making the entire situation seem more campy-rediculous than an issue of She-Hulk.


You can view the piece with the mispelling here at John Byrne's forum, along with discussion:
http://www.byrnerobotics.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=19898&PN=1&totPosts=13

A few entries down on that page, you can see John Byrne offering to send the guy a drawing of his that is "actually worth $500". Somewhat cocky and possibly with a personal agenda, but it seems like Byrne is actually trying to be nice to someone on his forum. Armageddon may be upon us.



And here is the response from Golden and his art rep, Rene Witterstaetter of EvaInk (A woman whose last name makes my eyes cross) in which he denies that the art was meant to teach a lesson while still trying to teach that same lesson (bonus points for admitting he signed someone else's name on a mail slip):
http://www.tcj.com/messboard/viewtopic.php?t=2470

So, Golden claimed that people threatened him and were moved to the top of his pile. It also kind of seems like he sent these pieces out without his art rep seeing them and then left her to clean the mess.


There's a fun parody image if you scroll down here:
http://www.byrnerobotics.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=19898&PN=1&TPN=18


On this page, a final resolution is passed wherein it seems that at least one or two people were kind of lying and no one was moved to the top of the pile and people might be getting their money back or something (Gerry Turnbull's second comment on the page):
http://www.byrnerobotics.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=19898&PN=1&TPN=19


Unrelated, but on this page, you can seem images of a giant ocean bug that makes me feel itchy just from looking at it:
http://byrnerobotics.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=19898&PN=1&TPN=10


Originally, I found the whole thing here and then explored links on my own for the whole story: http://comicsworthreading.com/2007/07/28/bravo-for-byrne-goldens-pettiness/