Wow! Forgive me as I’m playing catch-up on this, but WTF? Has Quesada lost his fucking mind? Ladies and gentleman what we have here is proof of a lousy and unprofessional business culture that goes all the way to the top. Joe is a C suite Executive. You don’t do this. You don’t ever do this. Never ever ever. You especially don’t do this when the target has already filed an FTC complaint regarding the behaviors of your massive corporation and the children employed their in against his business. It boggles the mind. After Waid’s nonsense regarding Antarctic Press and D&C, Marvel would have been forced to insist on a policy that everyone was just to stay away from D&C, Antarctic Press and other small publishers and creators. Waid is an unhinged lunatic acting on his own, leave it at that. Corporate Policy should have been, needed to be “don’t step in the poop”. “Stay the fuck out of it, or else!” I’m sure that’s the advise the company legal department was giving. And Quesada goes and does this. He just essentially validated Waid’s actions as corporate policy. He’s a C suite exec. He has no Private Opinion or Speech. And he’s punching down telling people (and retailers) not to purchase or fund a small indie creators work. One who was already bullied out of a publisher by Quesada’s employees. Wow!
And the problem is not so much what Quesada said. Which granted is problematic enough. It’s that he said it at all. That he engaged and got involved. You don’t do that. As an executive you are specifically told, don’t do that. Don’t do things like this. Make no careless public statements. Everything you say can have an impact on the company. What a fucking idiot!
