Comments on: Platinum and Tokyopop drama continues

by: Dylan Squires

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:49:56 +0000

Since you ask Bill,

Drunk Duck was originally a programming experiment. I had no domain name but asked a friend to draw a mascott character for me. Being a grand friend, he drew my recently expired duck “dead” along with my quail standing on it.

DeadDuck.com was taken, and since it seemed to look “passed out”, i opted to buy DrunkDuck.com.

Now you know.

by: Bill Cunningham

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 23:08:41 +0000

Being ignorant of the origins and meaning of the name, let me ask this question:

Who in their right mind thought it was a good idea to name a COMICS website “Drunk Duck” ?

I am really curious to know…

by: Ben Seaver

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:43:48 +0000

I think Dylan DOES know what his contract says, and it probably says “don’t talk about the contract!” Ha! So his “admission” that he doesn’t know whether he’s allowed to start a competing site or not, is just his way of talking around the non-disclosure BS.

In fact, I bet Platinum probably specifically reminded him about that, considering there’s been a flying poop storm about creators leaking the “we promise to pay, don’t leak this letter” letter, as seen in Rich Jonston’s Lying in the Gutters.

Platinum has also decided not to relinquish (or at leas has threatened to not give) Hero By Night rights back to DJ Coffman because he blogged about his non-payment (apparently non-disclosure clauses are more important than payment clauses)– despite the fact that he said nothing but POSITIVE things about Plat in said blog (well except the bit about not getting paid)!

So… I think we can excuse Dylan for a little tiptoeing around this issue.

by: Jake Forbes

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:17:57 +0000

Newsarama forgot to include Return to Labyrinth, which IS continuing after very strong sales. The third volume is far along in production and looking great, volume 4 is in early stages.

by: Parker

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:06:44 +0000

“MEANWHILE, over at TokyoPop, Benjamin Ong Pang Kean shows that Newsarama can do a good job when they try”

Doesn’t that violate your own decree against General Shitiness from yesterday?

by: Charles LePage

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:45:49 +0000

I read this in another Beat story a few minutes ago: “Finally, on one level this is a little alarming and circle-jerky. It’s sad when who writes what about comics gets more play than the fact that Image’s publisher doesn’t know the name of his own books, but, you know, that’s how it goes. ”

I find it alarming Dylan doesn’t know what his contract with Platinum states, especially regarding what he can do once he leaves.

by: BurnOut

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:05:38 +0000

I bet some of Platinum’s investors would have loved to know that the guy who was running their websites and Drunk Duck wasn’t there for “months”. Just because they sure do talk up DrunkDuck a lot in their press releases and it seems from comments by creators there in the forums that there have been tons of bugs that nobody has attended to there.