Neil Gaiman/Todd McFarlane II Generates A Metric Ton Of News Articles, Analyses, General Pointing

Luckily, the legal battle that was renewed this week in Madison between the two 49-year-olds, twin success stories of comics' last flush period is pretty easy to follow by reading only one of the 500 or so articles and blog posts out there. Take this one for example. The one thing that's compelling to me about the renewed battle isn't so much the massive and ridiculous delay in McFarlane accounting for and then paying Gaiman what he won last time they tussled -- no surprise there -- but that by going after characters he claims are pretty much playing the same role with the same features as the characters for which he's owned money, Gaiman could be picking at the corners of a longtime, widespread practice of comics creators using doppelgangers when a rights situation denies them use of the original character.
 
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