Normally I don’t like to the gossip in “Lying in The Gutters” but Rich Johnson’s recent column had a segment that made me burst out laughing:

Marvel’s Tom Brevoort publicly supports the demands of the Writers Guild of America from his Marvel blog. Yet Marvel have not yet agreed how or how much to pay creators for the internet publication of the work on the paid-for Marvel DCU and still don’t pay royalties from foreign publications. Mote and beam, Tom, mote and beam.

It’s such a great point because in a lot of ways the Big Two really stomp on creators. It’s a shame that its basically impossible for artist and writers to unionize.