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Re: If you don't want to tell, don't tell!

Posted By: MACK!
Date: SAT, 4/10/04, 4:14 a.m.

In Response To: If you don't want to tell, don't tell! (Arie)

: So no reason to move to Marvel!

: That Marvel is creating the same or similar conditions as
: Image has (had) is in and of itself no reason to
: change!

: A "certain situation" is a bit vague to
: describe the reason for the move!

: When things come up that are unexpected, somthing has
: been in the planning for a long time already!

: My point is not so much that you do not really give any
: reason as to why the change to Marvel, that is after
: all your prerogative, but a long story can easily
: explain nothing as in tnis case, but does not
: alleviate the worries I have concerning "Big
: Business USA", and Marvel certainly is a part of
: that! They usually have only one goal, even if a CEO
: might want differently, in the end all that counts to
: them is profit.

: Not to make my story too long, I do not mind not having a
: reason, I just hope that your, and Kabuki's future
: will not suffer, therefore: PLEASE READ ALL THE SMALL
: PRINT CAREFULLY!!!!

Hi Arie,
I appreciate your concern.
Of course that is no reason to change in and of itself and that would not have made us change.
I know it appears to be the theme for people to think of this as Marvel out to steal market share, but that is not even remotely close to what happened.
There is a reason for the move, and a sequence of events that transpired, but out of respect for Brian, we have decided not to speak of it. Brian wants to promote the positive aspects instead of pointing fingers or blaming anyone for any negative aspects.
All that matters to us, is that we have a home for our books where we can do them exactly the way we want to.
Something happened.
We did our best to keep our books as close to our schedule as possible.
I would be happy to discuss it so everyone understands, but for professional courtessy and friendship, I'm not going to speak of it.
I appreciate your understanding.
I hope that though there is a lack of info, that people will decide to give our integrity the benifit of the doubt instead of making cynical assumptions.
I know that you are speaking from genuine concern and I appreciate it. We had to make some difficult and challenging decisions.
What was in the planning was our new series' at Image. Something occured that made us uncomfortable.
Erik Larsen was blameless in it, and we like him, and I am very grateful to him. But we were forced to reconsider the situation.

We had to do this when a situation forced us to leave Caliber Comics and go to Image years ago. It was a challenging situation for us then, and it is now as well. We were grateful that our readers continued to read our books no matter what company they were at.

But I'd like to think that none of this business stuff matters to our readers. What matters is that we do our books the way we need to, and that we are able to get them into the stores so the readers can find them, and enjoy our books. I'd like to think that what matters is if the readers continue to enjoy our stories and characters.

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