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3rd August 2007

4:10am: 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.

more links and the story thicken )
11:16am: Strikethrough Two: Electric Boogaloo
Fanartists [info]ponderosa121 and [info]elaboration have been permanently suspended from LiveJournal. As far as I can tell, there's no word from [info]elaboration yet, but [info]ponderosa121 received this email from the LJ Abuse team. Update: [info]elaboration received an identically-worded notice.

The innocence_jihad post, with links and suggestions to protest in the comments over at lj_biz and lj_news. And fandom takes up the invitation to troll/spam/comment. With glee.

Fandom_tossed on greatestjournal keeps track of the most recent batch of TOSsing.

Metafandom collects fandom's reactions. Fandom is justifiably upset.

The wank's all coming from LJ/6A this time around, folks. Update: This statement is no longer true, if it ever was true in the first place. It doesn't change the fact that the 6A team has a lot of 'splainin to do, though.

(I'm sorry that this report's lacking in teh_funny, but LJ's most recent dickishness deserves documentation. Hey, that alliterates.)

ETA: elke_tanzer has even more references and links, for those who are curious. And synecdochic explains the current legal situation and its possible impact on the latest batch of strikethroughs.

ETA II: Ladies and gentlefen, we have Godwin's in action. (Thanks, [info]barankhy and [info]passerby.) And the LJ Abuse team "clarifies" matters.

ETA III: Ponderosa responds to her suspension. Elaboration does the same.
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