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Post by impulse on Jan 26, 2018 13:51:59 GMT -5
I'm in the middle of a re-cataloguing and reorganising my comic collection. It's been three years or more since I last did it. It's a bit of a pain, humping long boxes about, but I have to say that I rather enjoy going through my collection book by book like this, updating my spreadsheet as I go. I made a choice years ago to never buy another longbox again because I used to move every 1-2 years, and that cured me. Short boxes may cost more for the same storage, but hauling those things around sucks.
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Post by impulse on Jan 26, 2018 14:58:56 GMT -5
The contracts in the Golden Age were a stamp on the back of a check that, when endorsed, effectively ceded all rights to the character to the corporation. I'm not saying it was right, but it was standard practice then. Apples and oranges here with two teenage boys from Cleveland and Alan Moore, seasoned professional comic book writer, who had signed many contracts over his many years in the business. The Siegel and Shuster suit is a different matter entirely going back to the very earliest years of industry. I'm curious; you cite other times this has happened and my limited knowledge of the industry is leaving me blank as to where that has happened as precedent. You still don't get it. Moore's contract on Watchmen was unprecedented. He negotiated a contract like none before. DC found a loophole. There was really nothing more he could have done. I say again...for the umpteenth time...as a lawyer...chances are a seasoned attorney wouldn't have done better for Moore...because NO PUBLISHER had done before what DC did with Watchmen. I'm not sure what you're asking in the last sentence. Other times what has happened? If it's about DC screwing with Moore...there's the entire ABC debacle. There's V for Vendetta (the comic and the movie). There's the recall of LoEG. There's the LoEG movie. There's Beyond Watchmen. There's using Promethea without telling Moore (which at this point I'm sure he doesn't care, it's just par for the course) or Williams. If it's something else then I'm unsure what you're asking. Sorry if this is beating a dead horse, but I am late to the thread and find the topic fascinating. If I may attempt to chime in in my decidedly non-lawyer layman's terms... As I understand it, it's not that Moore did not plan adequately to protect himself. It's just that what DC ended up doing was so completely and entirely new that it literally never even occurred to Moore or anyone else that it was even a possibility. Since comics were never published indefinitely before, the contract saying "rights revert after two years unpublished" or whatever it was would have meant exactly the same as "two years after it's published the creators get the rights back" or "DC has two years to make money off this after which Moore and Gibbons can do what they like with it." Because it was unprecedented the verbiage and practices that shape the modern view we have didn't exist at the time, so DC was able to go back and retroactively find a hole exploit it. In short, as far as any one did or could understand at the time, Moore and DC DID sign a contract saying he gets the rights back after 2 years. That was how it would have been understood at the time. DC was able to figure out how to weasel their way out of it on a technicality and screw him even though they knew that's not what it meant, Moore knew it's not what that mean, and Gibbons knew that's not what it meant. DC basically agreed to give Moore and Gibbon the rights back after 2 years and then screwed them on a technicality. An unforeseen and unforeseeable technicality, at that.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jan 26, 2018 15:34:40 GMT -5
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Post by Pharozonk on Jan 26, 2018 16:52:59 GMT -5
Man, retirement is a complicated thing, ain't it? My company is asking me to open my 401(k) account and decide how much I want to contribute. Now I'm stuck between a Roth and traditional 401(k) or whether I want to contribute to my personal IRA. Adult life is confusing.
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Post by Rob Allen on Jan 26, 2018 17:19:18 GMT -5
Why can't you have both?
The standard advice is to put as much into your IRA & 401k as they'll let you.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2018 18:02:19 GMT -5
Why can't you have both? The standard advice is to put as much into your IRA & 401k as they'll let you. Good advice here!
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Post by Rob Allen on Jan 27, 2018 4:03:39 GMT -5
hondobrode, were those meant for the Splash Pages thread?
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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 27, 2018 8:22:17 GMT -5
Those splashes are advertising for This
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Post by hondobrode on Jan 27, 2018 9:06:29 GMT -5
hondobrode , were those meant for the Splash Pages thread? Yes absolutely. Late night after I got off of work. Didn't realize I had posted in the wrong thread. Sorry for the faux pas
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Post by Pharozonk on Jan 27, 2018 9:37:06 GMT -5
Why can't you have both? The standard advice is to put as much into your IRA & 401k as they'll let you. The problem is that they don't match my contributions till at least 1 year of service. Since I'm not going to be getting any contributions from them now, I'm wondering if I should contribute only until the theoretical matching point and putting a little more in my personal IRA.
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Post by Mormel on Jan 27, 2018 15:14:44 GMT -5
Speaking of owls, as I was riding my bicycle home tonight, I saw a barn owl flying over and landing in a tree next to the cycling lane. First time I saw one in the wild, beautiful creature.
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Post by The Captain on Jan 27, 2018 16:09:58 GMT -5
Speaking of owls, as I was riding my bicycle home tonight, I saw a barn owl flying over and landing in a tree next to the cycling lane. First time I saw one in the wild, beautiful creature. That's awesome. I've only seen a barn owl in the wild once myself as well. There is an old dead tree in my neighbor's backyard, and my family and I came home one night to see this big old owl sitting on one of the upper branches, just hanging out. It stayed for about another two hours, all the while I sat on my deck and just watched it, before flying off into the woods behind my house.
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Post by The Captain on Jan 27, 2018 16:11:51 GMT -5
Why can't you have both? The standard advice is to put as much into your IRA & 401k as they'll let you. The problem is that they don't match my contributions till at least 1 year of service. Since I'm not going to be getting any contributions from them now, I'm wondering if I should contribute only until the theoretical matching point and putting a little more in my personal IRA. This sounds like a solid plan. Get yourself used to the money not being in your paycheck, and when you reach your second year, you'll start getting the match without having to make any changes to your withholdings.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 27, 2018 18:59:19 GMT -5
Speaking of owls, as I was riding my bicycle home tonight, I saw a barn owl flying over and landing in a tree next to the cycling lane. First time I saw one in the wild, beautiful creature. Maybe you will become Owlman and fight crime because criminals are a superstitious and cowardly lot.
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Post by DE Sinclair on Jan 27, 2018 23:50:29 GMT -5
Speaking of owls, as I was riding my bicycle home tonight, I saw a barn owl flying over and landing in a tree next to the cycling lane. First time I saw one in the wild, beautiful creature. That's awesome. I've only seen a barn owl in the wild once myself as well. There is an old dead tree in my neighbor's backyard, and my family and I came home one night to see this big old owl sitting on one of the upper branches, just hanging out. It stayed for about another two hours, all the while I sat on my deck and just watched it, before flying off into the woods behind my house. We haven't seen owls around here, but we see hawks pretty often. Usually they'll be sitting on telephone or light poles or sometimes fences. Once in a while we see them swooping over the road or down to catch something on the ground. On one cross state trip we counted over 20 hawks along the highway within a few hours. Always a treat when we see them.
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