Twist vs. McFarlane…the final chapter
With a small notice in the St. Louis Post Dispatch one of the epic lawsuits of our time had its final, anti-climactic chapter:
After seeing his first award of $24.5 million tossed out, and a subsequent one of $15 million upheld, former St. Louis Blues enforcer Tony Twist has settled for $5 million in a suit over his depiction in a comic strip.
The settlement between Twist and insurance companies for Todd McFarlane Productions Inc. was approved in bankruptcy court in Arizona. The law firm of Blitz Bardgett & Deutsch represented Twist.
Twist sued McFarlane over the latter’s use of a character named “Tony Twist” as a villain in SPAWN. Although some judges along the way ruled that there was little chance any reasonable person would mistake the comics character for the real life person, hockey-loving McFarlane’s admission that he had indeed based the character on Twist seemed persuasive against himself.
02/16/07 at 3:15 pm
I hear crickets.
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Coat
02/16/07 at 4:13 pm
Hey, who’s the guy settling up with Tony Twist? Didn’t he used to draw funny books or something?
02/16/07 at 9:57 pm
“Our long national nightmare is over.”
06/16/07 at 4:14 am
It’s pretty sad that this dude sued just because a name was used….dude is pretty lame and desparate for $$$$
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