Neil Gaiman om status på Miracleman

Miracleman #1Jeg støvsuger dagligt nettet for at se om der er en – forhåbentlig positiv – udvikling i sagen Gaiman vs. McFarlane om rettighederne til Miracleman, og forleden kom Neil Gaiman faktisk med en opsummering af hvor sagen står i dag:

As always, it’s an enormous can of worms and it’s enormously complicated. The last thing I got was a legal thing from McFarlane suing me – I don’t know if suing is the correct word – because we put out the Randy Bowen statue of Miracleman claiming that he owns 100% of Miracleman and we shouldn’t have been allowed to put out the statue. So, we have to answer to that. I think that is the current status. It’s still a legal can of worms and McFarlane is still squatting on it. I can’t quite work out where he gets the idea that he owns the entire thing. That’s what his lawyers are currently claiming and I guess more lawyers are going to have to sort it out.It’s astonishingly silly especially considering he’s already lost all 18 counts in his previous court case with me, incredibly effectively, to keep going. I guess he figures that this is better because it’ll be decided by a bankruptcy judge since he’s bankrupt rather than by a jury.

Altså intet nyt siden sidst jeg hørte noget – det ser ud til at McFarlane vil holde serien i juridisk limbo af grunde, som vi andre kun kan gætte på.
Er der nogen der vil splejse til en tre-fire mænd med køller, som kan “besøge” McFarlane og “forklare” ham at han bør droppe sit krav om nogen som helst ret til figuren, så vi kan få genudgivet Miracleman og Gaiman kan få skrevet den sidste del? :)

I would be very, very happy the day that we can actually bring out, legitimately, without any worry of McFarlane turning around and suing, new collections. I would love that. To bring out “The Golden Age” and to be able to reprint Alan Moore’s stuff, I would love that.

Det er nu alt, alt for mange år siden jeg har læst Miracleman sidst, og jeg bruger altså ikke $800+ på eBay for at genanskaffe den. Er der andre der også savner serien?