so what happened to the dreamwave comics?

Autobloke · Post by **Autobloke** » Sun Jul 24, 2005 9:20 pm

Predabot wrote:Looks as if maybe the legal hassle around the DW-stories are coming to and end, and the material might be loosening up. Maybe there is a possibility of War Within and Energon seeing a conclusion in tpb-format??

But with all the DW hating we have now, will anybody want them?

I probably will.

KingMob · Post by **KingMob** » Sun Jul 24, 2005 11:29 pm

Is there that much DW-hating tho, any that will have a serious impact on this anyway? Pat Lee-hating yeah, general DW-hating...not really?
Think how many times have we've been asked a variation of 'when will the DW stuff be finished?' for example.

That said, and looking at the Gen One titles being reprinted only in this announcement, I'd rather they reprint something like the first War Within series. Seeing as that's actually difficult to get ahold of now. Hopefully later.

Anyways, haven't IDW always said they want to put out the unreleased DW material? That it was just a question of waiting for those particular products being freed up from legal issues? Don't see any reason to not accept that. I'd imagine the chances of seeing the unreleased material put out, probably in TPB yeah, are quite reasonable.

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 8:48 am

The Furman stuff perhaps. Continuing the Mick/Patyk stuff might be a headache.

Predabot · Post by **Predabot** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 2:54 pm

I know I'll no doubt read some of these TPB's. War Within must of course be collected in a trade.

Autobloke · Post by **Autobloke** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 4:57 pm

Autobloke wrote:I probably will.

Just to clarify my weak willpower to resist TF.
Luckily, I can't see Pat Lee ever being allowed to mess with our fave 'bots ever again, so I needn't worry about that.

Professor Smooth · Post by **Professor Smooth** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 7:16 pm

Autobloke wrote:
Autobloke wrote:I probably will.
Just to clarify my weak willpower to resist TF.
Luckily, I can't see Pat Lee ever being allowed to mess with our fave 'bots ever again, so I needn't worry about that.

I wouldn't be so sure of that.

KingMob · Post by **KingMob** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 7:16 am

Yeah, check out LITG for some gossip.
http://www.comicbookresources.com/columns/?column=13

THE DREAMWAVE LEGACY

The appearance of Transformers trade paperbacks coming from IDW, listed by Amazon, collecting Dreamwave material has caused some creators to get rather annoyed - specifically because they haven't been paid for much of that work and haven't been contacted by IDW yet.

Hasbro's lawyers have advised creators that they wish to deal with publishers who will pay existing creative debts but "if these amounts are excessive, it might be necessary to negotiate as to the amounts due and/or cherry-pick the publications."

The Amazon solicitations do not yet mention which creators worked on the unpaid volume number three.

As to last week's listing of Dreamwave's assets for sale, it turns out as expected Hasbro did seize the physical comic book stock, claiming ownership. This may be challenged by other creditors however, especially since much of the stock printed work that was never paid for. It looks like freelancers have as much of a claim on the stock as any other parties.

However, Destination Entertainment has acquired the rights from Hasbro to distribute some of those books, specifically ones that were never released to the public. These books currently include the Pocket Sized versions of "Transformers Energon" Volume 2, and a black and white version of "Transformers Vs. G.I. Joe" Volume 1.

Destination Entertainment will attend Cybercon Expo 2005, with copies for sale, before distributing through Diamond. Alex Milne, the artist for many "Transformers Energon" issues will be in attendance as well, so you can get newly purchased copies signed right there at the show.

No word as to whether Alex will get paid for them though.

The other glitch with the Dreamwave assets liquidations is that the Canada Investment Act prevent non-Canadians from bidding on the assets.

Intriguingly, one person planning to bid for certain trademarks is coffee-drinking Porsche-driving Pat Lee himself.

Yellow Light, btw.

Autobloke · Post by **Autobloke** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 10:42 pm

Professor Smooth wrote:
Autobloke wrote:
Autobloke wrote:I probably will.
Just to clarify my weak willpower to resist TF.
Luckily, I can't see Pat Lee ever being allowed to mess with our fave 'bots ever again, so I needn't worry about that.
I wouldn't be so sure of that.

I'm not listening. *hands over ears* LAH! LAH! LAH! LAH! LAH! LAH..!

Well, at the most, if he did we wouldn't be dumb enough to buy it. And whoever paid him to do it would be dumb to have let him.