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- Feb 28, 2019
Judging from Frog's chat right now, the average CG'ers reaction to Meyer dropping the lawsuit is overwhelmingly negative. People were already starting to notice him distancing himself from the community. I'm thinking this might be the end of Meyer's time in ComicsGate.
Meyer was NEVER "part of Comicsgate." EVER. He was very, very, VERY clear about this. He just wants to make comics, he doesn't want to make any political statement about it. And if some SJW wants to buy his comics on their merits, he's been clear that he'll happily take their money in exchange for goods and services. I get what you're saying -- CG might not be supporting Meyer as much anymore -- but even Frog has pointed out that Meyer isn't part of CG, not exactly.
What does frustrate me somewhat, and I expected and understand it, are people somehow outraged that Meyer didn't keep fighting. It's been two years. Waid managed to bullshit his way around a single procedural thing for over a fucking year, all while having his legal team send harassment shit to Meyer's legal team, running up the bill constantly. We're at 2 years in and there still hasn't even been a single real court session over this.
I get that it sucks that Waid's "lets just run out the clock" thing worked, but what was Meyer to do? Spend every dime he makes, all the money he could be putting into his new business and making comic books, just to continue to fight a legal battle that a blubbery failing man-child is intentionally dragging out via bullshit games... All for an apology that Waid absolutely wouldn't mean and the comics media absolutely wouldn't cover? Everyone's a badass fighter rah rah rah from the twitter client, but when you're getting $3000+ a month legal bills every month for 2 years, well...
Don't get me wrong. I would have LOVED seeing that fat sack of shit Waid have to post -- or record a video of -- some "I lied about Meyer and knew it, and I apologize." But at the rate Waid was successfully fucking with the system, it would have been 2025 or later if it was ever seen, and lets be honest -- the odds of Waid surviving in the industry till 2025 are pretty fucking low.
Even if he doesn't get MeToo'd by some sociopathic purse puppy POC who thinks "xie" deserves the work that a disgusting straight white cis male is getting, look at Marvel and DC. They're basically on life support and crashing hard. Waid's own business partners and coworkers have already come forward and outed him as a phone destroying, wall punching nutjob. It's literally only a matter of time before he does something like that in front of some faux fragile sjw type and they have him thrown out of the industry for it. He's no longer useful to them, and being a male feminist won't save him forever.
Now, what I WOULD love to know is if Waid was paying his own legal fees, or if he had help. Because the "lets run out the clock strategy" is just as expensive to do as it is to put up with. The idea of Waid wasting $250,000+ on annoying Meyer to death is glorious to me. Especially since in 2020, 2021... he's not going to be making that money back anytime soon.