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UPDATE:
Richard Meyer Sues Mark Waid Over ‘Tortious Interference With Contract and Defamation’
Posted by Rich Johnston September 29, 2018
(https://web.archive.org/web/2018093...id-tortious-interference-contract-defamation/)

The full court document runs below.

RELATED LLC THREAD: https://kiwifarms.net/threads/richard-meyer-v-mark-waid-2018.48334/


This is the story of a comic book industry legend sperging out over an indie comic getting a publishing deal and possibly committing career suicide by shutting down a small publisher’s deal with his online enemy.

The internet is a fact of life nowadays, a prevalent beast that has an effect on nearly everything we do. One of its biggest effects has been the revelation that various legends have been unmasked as the complete spergs they really are, one of said legends-turned-spergs is Mark Waid, an ostensibly legendary comic book writer, responsible for some of the most celebrated comic books out there, such as Kingdom Come, Superman: Birthright, and celebrated runs on ongoing series like The Flash.

The thing is, Mark Waid never managed to get a handle on the internet, and it clearly shows in his online conduct: endless tantrums whenever something doesn’t go as he would like, constant virtue signalling about “How the strong should protect the weak” while bullying others into silence at same time, and staying quiet about sexual harassers within the industry. He also frequently rage quits social media whenever he gets a pushback on his insanity. Below are some examples:

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This is how he handles criticism:

Quality Customer Service (http://archive.md/iNKAO):



(http://archive.md/8e0gZ)

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(http://archive.md/DxbMH)

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But the insanity goes deeper, consider this quote from Gary Groth, one of Waid's former editors ('We Told You So: Comics As Art' by Tom Spurgeon and Michael Dean):


His reaction to a parody YT account shitposting on a livestream (http://archive.md/ZUE4a):


Arthur Sudyam is an artist, more known for his contributions to The Walking Dead comics. At a con a couple years ago, he over-bought booth spaces and other artists were forced to move locations (basically he made a dick move). Mark Waid being himself had this reaction:


Mark Waid can't make comics anymore without injecting his politics into what he's writing:

"The Strong Protect the Weak" -Mark Waid (Sorry for the size):

Tweet 1: Just when you're starting to feel good about things here, the twisted, nasty, fucked-up degenerates show up to piss on themselves.

Tweet 2: Not a subtweet. Several comics folk are getting accused of 'child pornography' this weekend by Gamergate types who think they're clever.

Tweet 3: It's really nauseating in no small part because it mocks a genuine horrible problem in society. But these creeps think it's "funny".

Tweet 4: I'm having to block assholes right and left who think it's a RIOT accusing someone of being a child pornographer just to stir shit.

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Wait? Didn't you defend a pedophile? (http://archive.md/Ab2fw):


(https://archive.md/bGFf9)


Mark Waid vs Diversity and Comics
Mark has an online feud with DiversityAndCmx (aka Zack). The feud started when Mark wanted an identifiable picture of Zack so that if he attended the Baltimore Comic Con he would be notified and “have a talk” with Zack (https://archive.md/e007i):


He later tries to cover his ass (https://archive.md/FH7Io):


After the previous spergout, Mark announces he would be having a "Civil Conversation" with Zack over a phone call (https://archive.md/IQ931):


After the conversation between Zack and Mark in which they both promised to not publicly talk about the content of the call (http://archive.md/qAEud):


Mark then quotes a part of the conversation breaking the promise. Zack then makes a video talking about the conversation since Mark didn’t hold up to his word and did a Mark Waid impression mocking him.
Apparently Zack is very gifted at impressions because after that video Mark started threatening to sue Zack for illegally recording the conversation. Later when he caught heat for this, he made the excuse it was for a story he was working with at the time.
Within 24 hours of this post being made (https://archive.md/JG3GM),


Mark and a horde of SJWs bullied a small publishing company into dropping a project made by Zack and other artists (Jon Malin, Ethan Van Sciver) who have been getting pushed out of the SJW-infested comics industry.


The IndieGoGo was a massive success making $275K from the initial goal of $5K that was set out and received a publishing deal with Antarctic Press. After just 1 day of harassment, AP’s owner was forced to cancel the publication under the fear of continued harassment.


After getting some push-back from him strong-arming AP into dropping Jawbreakers, Mark:


Mark Waid effectively used his position as an industry legend and a Marvel Entertainment employee to shut down a smaller publisher from publishing Zack's indie book, making what he did a lawyer's wet dream:
Possible aftermath for Mark Waid. Since source is 4chan, it might be BS (https://archive.md/IUR2n):


Disclaimer: Due to the recent events as stated above, Mark has shut down all social network accounts and is in hiding now, so we don't have archives of those (for now), however, there's enough of Mark's spergery to start up this thread while playing the waiting game for him to pop-up again.

Mark Waid

Big thanks to @emspex and @neural for the help.