Legal Matters

Former Radical Comics EIC Dave Elliott is suing the comics publisher/movie company, claiming a litany of breaches: David Elliott has filed a lawsuit against Blatant (which also owns the film arm Radical Pictures) and shareholders...

The NY Post has deets: Apparently Superman was the scofflaw; Batman just got caught in a costumed vigilante sweep.

We're going to have to leave explaining this one to the lawyers. Short version -- while the decision did rule in WB/DC's favor, it did leave the matter of a Superman film up in...

Today, a decision was handed down in one of the lawsuits involving Superman and the Siegel family. The Siegel family -- including Joanne Siegel and Laura Sigel Larson -- were granted half the copyright...

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXXuGU9PQL4&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00&w=425&h=344] Any story that includes the terms "Mexican midget wrestler" and "hooker" (or "sexoservidoras" as they are called in Mexico) might seem ripe for comedy, but the murder of two pint- sized luchadores...

UPDATE: Here's the news story confirmation: A COMIC book artist has been cleared of raping and sexually abusing a 13-year-old girl. Ronald Smith, of Grange Close in Godalming, had been accused of attacking the youngster,...

The British SUN tabloid is to sober news reporting what a caramel frappucino is to healthy food, but here's a sad story from its pages: JUDGE DREDD artist Ron Smith is on trial for...

The Baltimore City Paper has news of another debt against Diamond owner Steve Geppi,, this time a $600K loan from Camden National Bank in Maine, used for a controversial land purchase in Maine....

As reported yesterday, Christopher Handley, the Iowa man arrested for owning drawn material depicting children engaged in sexual acts, has pleaded guilty to possessing obscene visual representations of the sexual abuse of...

Last week, Roger Friedman, a showbiz columnist who worked for Fox, wrote a column in which he reviewed the download bootleg version of WOLVERINE. This weekend, unsurprisingly, he was fired (although he is saying...

Glen Hauman interviews the scans_daily moderators over at ComicMix, and it's interesting on many levels. ComicMix: What do you know about the circumstances of the shutdown? Has LiveJournal told you what prompted the shutdown?...

Over the weekend, news broke that the popular LiveJournal community Scans–Daily has been closed down. The community started out as a repository for slash fiction, but has developed into a wide-ranging sampler of all...