I CAN’T EVEN BREATHE

HOW FUCKING PATHETIC CAN YOU POSSIBLY BE

THIS IS LIKE A BLEEDING COOL APRIL FOOL’S JOKE

EXCEPT IT’S ACTUALLY HAPPENING

DC COMICS IS A HILARIOUS WASTELAND OF SHAME

brain-food:

Recently, Marvel triumphed in court against Gary Friedrich, the creator of Ghost Rider, as to whether any money or rights were owed to him from the use of the characters in movies, with the second movie starring Nicolas Cage on its way.

And while the court decided that Marvel owe Gary nothing, they also decided on a counter claim from Marvel, that Gary Friedrich owes $17,000 for selling prints of the Ghost Rider character at conventions and the like.

This represents Gary’s earnings from selling such prints over several years – but now Gary is penniless. And Marvel is demanding payment now. Oh, and that he is not allowed to say he is the creator of Ghost Rider for financial gain, say by doing an interview, in the future.

Marvel was recently bought by Disney for $4 billon. Nicolas Cage recently sold his copy of Action Comics #1 for over 2 million, and will have received similar for starring in Ghost Rider 2.

Gary Friedrich, the creator of Ghost Rider is, however, penniless.

EDIT: It seems this article has crashed The Bleeding Cool’s website, i replaced it with another link from Comicbook Resources. 

Read about this earlier in the day and it made me so God damn angry I could barely think straight. Whoever runs the legal matters at Marvel are an amoral pack of goblins. And I think if Tumblr could help crash a senator’s website in protest they could force Marvel’s hand here, too. I don’t know how, but I know it could happen. Somebody has to stand up for decency.  

(via getvicious)

iandsharman:

Cait Reilly, 22, is completing three weeks at Poundland, working five hours a day. Reilly, who graduated last year with a BSc in geology from Birmingham University, found herself with five other JSA claimants last week stacking and cleaning shelves at Poundland in south Birmingham.

She says there are about 15 other staff at the store but, unlike them, she will receive no remuneration for her work. “It seems we’re being used as some free labour, especially in the runup to Christmas.”

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Wow.

It starts out saying that kids who listen to metal religiously are more likely to be depressed-that isn’t totally unreasonable-and then it goes on to suggest that the music itself is causing the problem(Alternatively, if parents notice a downturn in their child’s mood after listening to music, this is also a cause for showing interest and getting involved).Attention jackshits at Melbourne: When I was 16, I listened to “Fade to Black” over and over again because I was depressed. I was not depressed because I listened to “Fade to Black” over and over again.