Harry August author Claire North considering suing Marvel for plagiarism!

[Tycon]

Yeah, also said something like he hopes the Fantastic Four kick their ass.

[Punch Dimension.]

On a serious note, who knows if anything went on behind the scenes for Hickman & Liefeld. They may not have gotten along creatively. Maybe Hickman did something to him at one point. Or maybe he does hate how much hype is around Hickman while everyone else, himself included, is treated as cast aways far as X-books go.

I think Bunn has more merit to be upset with the X-Office, but he's handling it better.

I'm inclined to not give the guy who had a homophobic freak out when someone wrote one of his characters as gay the benefit of the doubt tbh.

[mikelmcknight72]

To me, Rob Liefeld is like the Al Bundy of comic books. His glory days were over decades ago, and now he just seems to be bitter and have entitlement issues.

[MechaJeanix]

iirc Liefeld has previously tweeted that the X-Men in HoX #1 are fraudulent so he was definitely trying to be shady.

Interesting. I was not aware of this information.

[spirit2011]

On a serious note, who knows if anything went on behind the scenes for Hickman & Liefeld. They may not have gotten along creatively. Maybe Hickman did something to him at one point. Or maybe he does hate how much hype is around Hickman while everyone else, himself included, is treated as cast aways far as X-books go.

I think Bunn has more merit to be upset with the X-Office, but he's handling it better.

Well Hickman seems like anice guy that probably doesn't give a damn about Liefeld. remembering that liefeld also went after Snyder for nothing

[Glio]

To me, Rob Liefeld is like the Al Bundy of comic books. His glory days were over decades ago, and now he just seems to be bitter and have entitlement issues.

You just have to see that his twitter bio he is "Deadpool creator" and Nicieza on the other hand says "CO-CREATOR". He has never had class.

[ISnowNothin]

You just have to see that his twitter bio he is "Deadpool creator" and Nicieza on the other hand says "CO-CREATOR". He has never had class.

He's classless, for sure.

He said this of Fabian's role as co-creator: “If a janitor scripted New Mutants 98, he’d be the co-creator — that’s how it works, buddy."

And seriously? NONE of what defines Deadpool comes from Liefeld's work. The personality and storylines that made him the success he is came from Fabian's Deadpool mini-series with art by Joe Madureira, and Ken Lashley, the Joe Kelly and Ed McGuinness's run, Gail Simone's run, and Fabian Nicieza's run on Cable/Deadpool with Patrick Zircher and Reilly Brown.

Those are the storylines that made Wade who he is, and inspired his ongoing depiction in other media. In his Liefeld appearances he was a Deathstroke ripoff (merc Slade Wilson/Deathstroke, merc Wade Wilson/Deadpool) who looked like a Spider-Man redesign, and had Speedball from New Warrior's unique speech bubble schtick. There was nothing original or interesting about him, and the work of other creators are the reason he endures.

At least, that's how it feels having read it all as it's happened over the last 30 years.

[Glio]

Yes, I have always felt that Nicieza is more creator of Deadpool than Rob, but is difficult to change public perception. He is much more discreet.

[Omega Alpha]

Rob Liefeld is Deadpool's Bob Kane.

[ISnowNothin]

Rob Liefeld is Deadpool's Bob Kane.

*perfectly* stated. The rest is hard, because he has like, a half dozen Bill Fingers at least. But yes, brilliantly put.

[Fantasy Free Me]

Reading some of her tweets... Yikes. When people think their ideas are so "creative" and "unique" it's like they've been living under a rock and are completely unaware of their surroundings and the material that came way before theirs. Someone please tell her that Reincarnation is not a new concept just like people "trapped" or "living" a loop isn't as well...

Hell, are Trey and Matt gonna sue Marvel next because Moira has pretty much the same power set as Kenny? Considering his power was explained as such on an episode that also came before Claire North's book, so, they probably need to sue her as well...

[Rich Johnston]

1) story ideas aren't copyrightable

https://www.writersdigest.com/online...yright-an-idea

2) bleeingcool is clickbait.

Ideas are not, but execution is. And this was not clickbait at all.

[Rich Johnston]

BC has become a joke of a joke somewhere in the last five years. I mean, it wasn't exactly Nightline to begin with, but oof.

I see Hickman has already replied, as I expected he would.

Yes. To Bleeding Cool. What are you trying to say?

[Rich Johnston]

Bleeding cool was always a joke.

Just a sequel to CBR’s most popular feature, Lying In The Gutters...

[Maestroneto]

Rich, when are you getting good scoops again