I had a wonderful experience creating and working with Simon, and I think we had a good relationship..
When asked if Pat Lee would ever be allowed to work at IDW, Simon Furman responded "Over my dead body."
T-Macksimus wrote:Wow, interesting reactions from the peanut gallery. It's pretty obvious that the majority of you folks have never owned and operated your own business and that you also seem to have blinders on and got only what you wanted to read out of that interview. Yeah, the guy screwed up but he wasn't alone in it. He was the public face that took the heat for it all but it was a team effort that drove the company into the ground, not just 1 man. Aww, screw it... it's a waste of time trying to explain it to you people. Like I said, you all see only what you want to, not all of what's really there.
So what you're saying is it's totally cool to not pay your employees, lie to them about it, then steal credit for the work they did? Then basically bankrupt your own company by stretching your employees thin and buying expensive luxuries for yourself? Then when your company is about to go down, transfer all of that over to another company you own with your brother so you don't have to lose it? Then publicly say "Everyone's totally cool with it" and drive off in a Porsche while your former employees sit penniless and still royally pissed at you?
"Team effort"? No. He was the boss, it was HIS responsibility to make sure everything worked, that everyone got paid, everyone got credited properly, that the money was spent responsibly. And he failed that.
At the time, Dreamwave seemed like a really good idea. Hey, Transformers are back in comics! And hey, War Within is pretty cool, this Fallen guy is pretty awesome! Then we began noticing
problems with the art, and we began hearing about all of that dirty crap he pulled.
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