Comments on: Interesting Response to Gerber’s Death http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2008/02/27/interesting-response-to-gerbers-death/ Comic Book Resources Presents... Comics Should Be Good! Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:20:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Jack Norris http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2008/02/27/interesting-response-to-gerbers-death/comment-page-1/#comment-568444 Jack Norris Fri, 29 Feb 2008 01:24:28 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2008/02/27/interesting-response-to-gerbers-death/#comment-568444 Well, for much of the stuff listed, he was receiving meager compensation, in some cases nothing at all, for the reprinted material. For anything not currently in print, if you were to round up the back issues, again, none of the money spent would have found its way back to him. In that sense, I don't think that it's a big insult to him to avail oneself of this stuff at this point; in fact, ripping off Marvel might make for a bit of a tribute in and of itself. Heh. Half-kidding. Well, for much of the stuff listed, he was receiving meager compensation, in some cases nothing at all, for the reprinted material. For anything not currently in print, if you were to round up the back issues, again, none of the money spent would have found its way back to him. In that sense, I don’t think that it’s a big insult to him to avail oneself of this stuff at this point; in fact, ripping off Marvel might make for a bit of a tribute in and of itself. Heh. Half-kidding.

]]> By: RAB http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2008/02/27/interesting-response-to-gerbers-death/comment-page-1/#comment-568273 RAB Thu, 28 Feb 2008 23:29:23 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2008/02/27/interesting-response-to-gerbers-death/#comment-568273 Jim Shelley of Flashback Universe <a href="http://flashbackuniverse.blogspot.com/2008/02/random-screenshots-remembering-steve.html" rel="nofollow">also wrote about this</a> -- and if even a small percentage of the downloaders actually read those comics and see what the rest of us are talking about when we praise Gerber's work, it cannot be a bad thing. Jim Shelley of Flashback Universe also wrote about this — and if even a small percentage of the downloaders actually read those comics and see what the rest of us are talking about when we praise Gerber’s work, it cannot be a bad thing.

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]]> By: karlos http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2008/02/27/interesting-response-to-gerbers-death/comment-page-1/#comment-567296 karlos Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:41:19 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2008/02/27/interesting-response-to-gerbers-death/#comment-567296 On the one hand, getting Gerber's work out there to people who otherwise may not read it is good, but I can't help thinking this isn't "paying tribute" to most, but a way to get a big pile of comics for free. I'm kinda torn on it. On the one hand, getting Gerber’s work out there to people who otherwise may not read it is good, but I can’t help thinking this isn’t “paying tribute” to most, but a way to get a big pile of comics for free.

I’m kinda torn on it.

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