That's nice.
So you don't have any conversation where Meyer said that EVS pushed him into suing Waid?
No, I didn't push Zack into suing Waid. I remember Zack considering lawsuits, and then backing away from them, against various people on two or three different occasions before Waid shut down his deal with Antarctic. He had subscribers in his chat who claimed to be legal professionals, and they kept giving him advice about legal grounds on which he might sue.
And then I remember Zack making a video about Tortious Interference, and how that was enough of a reason to take Waid to court. He told me he was going to do it. I didn't believe him, because when you're being swarmed by SJWs, everyone gets litigious and then changes their mind. I've seen it happen dozens of times, and I've done it once or twice myself.
Anyhow, time goes by, and he's gotten a lawyer, and I'm pretty sure he's had Waid served. (My memory is fuzzy there, but I'm pretty sure Waid started his GoFundMe before Zack started his) I asked him how he was going to pay for it, and asked if he'd want a fundraiser. He said yes please. So I threw together a GoFundMe for Zack and promoted it.
My feelings about all of this haven't changed. I'm deeply disappointed that he didn't follow through with it. I feel like he had a responsibility towards the people he spoke to, and who funded him, to see this thing to trial.
But Zack has been backing away from all of this for his mental health. He's off Twitter. His videos are less angry, and more infrequent. I think the longer this went on, he just kept asking himself what the point of it all was, and if he really needed to spend another $120,000 to get $20,000 and a long overdue and insincere apology from Mark Waid Especially since the case was pretty terrifying to Waid, according to his friends. So maybe the message got thru.
From my perspective, this is a huge optics loss for the good guys, and there's no way around that except to just realize that times have changed, and this just doesn't mean what it meant in 2018. It's probably the grown up thing to walk away and move on, but damn, this would have been a clear moment of justice if Zack stuck with it.
In February of 2020, I might have thought the Meyer/Waid trial was vital to ComicsGate's importance. But I was wrong then, and the rest of 2020 and it's devastating effect on mainstream comics makes that even more clear.
We'll take the L here and keep moving forward.
