Rick Olney--Fibber or Mega-Giganta-Fibber?

[Gail Simone]

Well, one of Rick's biggest braggy boasts turns out to be, as we all suspected, more Olney horseshit.

Man, did he mess with the wrong community. Turns out one of my MySpace friends has worked for LucasFilms and knows the guy who created the Ric Olie character design. He'd never heard of Olney or Orca, flat out. He asked around, NO ONE involved had. They have serious doubts about the free comics story, too, apparently.

Nice one, Rick. Wrong people to try that on, entirely.

Gail

[Wil Radcliffe]

What about a super hero who lives in a funeral ho0me?

That could work.

'scuse me, I have to go write...

Or some guy who thinks he's a super hero who lives in a funeral home?

'Scuse me, I have to go file a copyright...

Just kiddin'... ;)

[khuxford]

That's sooooo sexy and mysterious.....

Well then...I think I've made my decision...tho' my target audience won't be other people named Kevin, I'll still assume that you speak for the vast majority of people out there. :)

If you're going that route, I suggest you also change your first name to Wha'.

And then there is that idea...now I'm torn...the sexy/mysterious/dare-I-say-tough version or the instantly-ready-for-open-mic-night version...hmmmmm...

[TomStillwell]

Tom, email me please:

E-mail sent.

[MacQuarrie]

Well, one of Rick's biggest braggy boasts turns out to be, as we all suspected, more Olney horseshit.

Man, did he mess with the wrong community. Turns out one of my MySpace friends has worked for LucasFilms and knows the guy who created the Ric Olie character design. He'd never heard of Olney or Orca, flat out. He asked around, NO ONE involved had. They have serious doubts about the free comics story, too, apparently.

Nice one, Rick. Wrong people to try that on, entirely.

Gail

My first reaction to the Ric Olie story was "SLBSTM" (Sounds Like Bullshit To Me), but it's nice to have it confirmed.

Hey Shamu! Did you really believe that story, or were you just hoping other people would? Are you crazy or just a liar?

Thank your friend for us, Gail.

[Wil Radcliffe]

Well, one of Rick's biggest braggy boasts turns out to be, as we all suspected, more Olney horseshit.

Man, did he mess with the wrong community. Turns out one of my MySpace friends has worked for LucasFilms and knows the guy who created the Ric Olie character design. He'd never heard of Olney or Orca, flat out. He asked around, NO ONE involved had. They have serious doubts about the free comics story, too, apparently.

Nice one, Rick. Wrong people to try that on, entirely.

Gail

Well, y'know, Walt Disney himself named the bad guy in Pocahontas after me.

The school's named after me too.

And Anne Radcliffe.

[Typo Lad]

Or some guy who thinks he's a super hero who lives in a funeral home?

'Scuse me, I have to go file a copyright...

Just kiddin'... ;)

Aww. I was gonna say 'i'll write, you draw"

[Matt Algren]

Well, one of Rick's biggest braggy boasts turns out to be, as we all suspected, more Olney horseshit.

Man, did he mess with the wrong community. Turns out one of my MySpace friends has worked for LucasFilms and knows the guy who created the Ric Olie character design. He'd never heard of Olney or Orca, flat out. He asked around, NO ONE involved had. They have serious doubts about the free comics story, too, apparently.

Nice one, Rick. Wrong people to try that on, entirely.

Gail
http://audienceofone.org.uk/images/blog/shocked.png

[Typo Lad]

Yes, and the bad guy from Time Trax? Totally modeled after me.

C'mon. Mordecai? All they did was loose the "h"!

[Wil Radcliffe]

Aww. I was gonna say 'i'll write, you draw"

My drawing skills are pretty mediocre. Unless it's drawing a mug of beer from a keg. I'm pretty skilled at that.

[Matt Doc Martin]

Well, one of Rick's biggest braggy boasts turns out to be, as we all suspected, more Olney horseshit.

Man, did he mess with the wrong community. Turns out one of my MySpace friends has worked for LucasFilms and knows the guy who created the Ric Olie character design. He'd never heard of Olney or Orca, flat out. He asked around, NO ONE involved had. They have serious doubts about the free comics story, too, apparently.

Nice one, Rick. Wrong people to try that on, entirely.

Gail

http://www.vikdavid.com/blog/pics/nelson-haha.gif

[KevinTBrown]

Or some guy who thinks he's a super hero who lives in a funeral home?

'Scuse me, I have to go file a copyright...

Just kiddin'... ;)

Shouldn't that be "super hero"....?

[Typo Lad]

My drawing skills are pretty mediocre. Unless it's drawing a mug of beer from a keg. I'm pretty skilled at that.
I can't draw a straight line.

Well, I thought I drew a straight line once.

Then later I caught him making out with another line.

[KevinTBrown]

E-mail sent.

And response sent.
















Gee, aren't you just dying to know what that email said, Olney...? :D

[Matt Algren]

Yes, and the bad guy from Time Trax? Totally modeled after me.

C'mon. Mordecai? All they did was loose the "h"!
It's time I fessed up. I am the hero from the Last Samurai. They changed the first name to 'Nathan', but otherwise it's spot on.





P.S. I am sane.

[MacQuarrie]

It's time I fessed up. I am the hero from the Last Samurai. They changed the first name to 'Nathan', but otherwise it's spot on.

Yeah? Well, Star Wars concept artist Ralph McQuarrie is my cousin!

Not really. His branch of the family parted from mine about 150 years ago. Sounds good, though, don't it?

[Wil Radcliffe]

Yeah? Well, Star Wars concept artist Ralph McQuarrie is my cousin!

Not really. His branch of the family parted from mine about 150 years ago. Sounds good, though, don't it?

Feh! Daniel Radcliffe is my son! Harry Potter can totally whup Luke Skywalker!

(No, no, a thousand times no. I'm just kidding. Please don't strike me down, James Earl Jones!)

[Typo Lad]

I actually have a small slip of paper somewhere that certifies me sane. it's notarized and everything.

It's funny, but people never seem comforted when I show it to them.

[KevinTBrown]

Well, I know Bruce Wayne is based on me.

They just changed the first name from Kevin to Bruce.











Oh, and the last name from Brown to Wayne.

So I know this to be true.

Yes, I'm sane.

[MacQuarrie]

I actually have a small slip of paper somewhere that certifies me sane. it's notarized and everything.

It's funny, but people never seem comforted when I show it to them.

I have a certificate certifying that I'm a god.

[Erik Burnham]

I had nothing whatsoever to do with American Beauty.

...

Okay, okay. The plastic bag? That was mine.

[KevinTBrown]

I have a certificate certifying that I'm a god.

"god", but not GOD!!!!


You're just a small Olney in a big pond.

[Typo Lad]

I have a certificate certifying that I'm a god.
But is it notarized?

[AIPman1]

Yeah? Well, Star Wars concept artist Ralph McQuarrie is my cousin!

Not really. His branch of the family parted from mine about 150 years ago. Sounds good, though, don't it?

Luke, I am your father........

[MacQuarrie]

"god", but not GOD!!!!


You're just a small Olney in a big pond.

Even Olney doesn't have one of these: Be a God! (http://www.monkeyspit.net/beagod)

[MacQuarrie]

But is it notarized?

My late mother-in-law's notary stamp is around here somewhere....

[Matt Doc Martin]

Gee, aren't you just dying to know what that email said, Olney...? :D

I sure am. PM me?

[AIPman1]

I have a certificate certifying that I'm a god.

I have an e-mail that says I'm an ordaned minister!!!

[Kozemp]

Gail, now that we know we have saved copies of all his disgusting bullshit upthread, can you unban him?

Because frankly I'd love to hear his "reaction" to the last couple days, especially the shenanigans call on the Star Wars thing.

JLK
whose father was named after him during an incident with a time machine

[khuxford]

And response sent.

Gee, aren't you just dying to know what that email said, Olney...? :D

No...but he's dying to use your publicly posted e-mail address for evil. :D

[KevinTBrown]

I sure am. PM me?

Done......

[Chuck Dixon]

Glad to see the Ric Olie BS finally quashed.
My place as the only comic creator to be referenced in SW canon is secure.

[AIPman1]

Gail, now that we know we have saved copies of all his disgusting bullshit upthread, can you unban him?

Because frankly I'd love to hear his "reaction" to the last couple days, especially the shenanigans call on the Star Wars thing.

I doubt he would speak, he'd just go back to deleting.

it would be crazy for him to speak in public again.

he can't be that crazy, can he?

I...

heh, I'm enjoying this too much....

[Typo Lad]

My late mother-in-law's notary stamp is around here somewhere....
That would be wrong.

Do it!

[AIPman1]

Done......

OK - I wanna know too!!!!!

[KevinTBrown]

No...but he's dying to use your publicly posted e-mail address for evil. :D

Oh, he could if he wanted..... BUT........


Well, just but.... he can figure out what I mean by it. :evilsmile

[TomStillwell]

And response sent.

















Gee, aren't you just dying to know what that email said, Olney...? :D

And it turns out Kevin and I are actually blocks away from one another downtown!

[Kozemp]

Glad to see the Ric Olie BS finally quashed.
My place as the only comic creator to be referenced in SW canon is secure.

I was not aware of this, sir. Please elaborate.

BTW, since you appeared here - many, many, many years ago you signed my copy of Punisher/Batman at the old Fat Jack's here in Philly - I still have it. You rock.

JLK
yeah, that's right, Punisher/Batman

[Mike Bullock]

Glad to see the Ric Olie BS finally quashed.
My place as the only comic creator to be referenced in SW canon is secure.

Not so fast, "Dixon", we haven't ruled out that the Rancor wasn't named after Rick yet...

[KevinTBrown]

No...but he's dying to use your publicly posted e-mail address for evil. :D

retcon.........

:p

[Kozemp]

I doubt he would speak, he'd just go back to deleting.

it would be crazy for him to speak in public again.

he can't be that crazy, can he?

I...

heh, I'm enjoying this too much....

I believe the admins should be able to give him the ability to post but not edit - I think someone said at some point upthread that CBR's forum software has that capability.

Though it may not anymore, what with Lying Fuck having threatened to sue the software company. Admittedly he thought he was suing Jonah, but they can't all be gems, can they?

JLK
lives to sue

[MacQuarrie]

Gail, now that we know we have saved copies of all his disgusting bullshit upthread, can you unban him?
Seconded. This thread is running low on crazy.

[KevinTBrown]

Seconded. This thread is running low on crazy.

If we only had the only comic creator to be referenced in SW canon show......




Oh. Wait.


Never mind.

;)

[Gail Simone]

Glad to see the Ric Olie BS finally quashed.
My place as the only comic creator to be referenced in SW canon is secure.

Quashed BIG time. They found the whole thing ridiculous.

And nice to have you back, Jar Jar!

:)

Ladies and gentlemen, one of the people Rick should never have taken on.

Gail

[SamuraiJack]

There is far too much awesomeness in this thread. We need more "sanity".

[Gail Simone]

I say again, he was never banned. He's been reading this thread and we said several times he could use a different name.

If it can be set so that he can't edit old posts, he can have his very tarnished username back.

Gail

[Ronée]

yes u can go into the admin cp and set his specific user settings so that he cannot edit his own posts.

[Kozemp]

I say again, he was never banned. He's been reading this thread and we said several times he could use a different name.

If it can be set so that he can't edit old posts, he can have his very tarnished username back.

Gail

That's what I meant - clearly he is either unwilling to post as someone else or is unable to figure out how to do so.

I did not mean to imply that you had ever banned anyone, oh Mistress of Plebes.

By the way, check THIS (http://www.google.com/search?q=%22rick+olney%22+%22ric+olie%22&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a) shit out. Fucker's been spreading the SW story far and wide...

JLK
please do not ban me, oh great Mistress

[KevinTBrown]

While I couldn't find a picture of Olney to post here, I found one that is definitely representative of his reaction currently. So, for your viewing "pleasure", I give you this:

http://myweb.thump.net/631920/ftk/wtf-1.jpg

[SUPERECWFAN1]

It would take an absurd leap of common sense to even accept that he had a Star Wars figure named after him. Finding out it wasn't true pretty much does nothing for me .


Also does anyone need any legal respresentation ? I just ordered my Law Degree from Harfard .

[Dreadstar]

Ricky?

Have you been served yet?

[Gail Simone]

Rich's middle initial is 'L,' someone close to him tells me.

Gail

[Sarah Beach]

Well, one of Rick's biggest braggy boasts turns out to be, as we all suspected, more Olney horseshit.

Man, did he mess with the wrong community. Turns out one of my MySpace friends has worked for LucasFilms and knows the guy who created the Ric Olie character design. He'd never heard of Olney or Orca, flat out. He asked around, NO ONE involved had. They have serious doubts about the free comics story, too, apparently.

Nice one, Rick. Wrong people to try that on, entirely.

Gail

You rock, Gail! Flint Henry has been hunting those facts since late November! Cool!

[colleen]

For those of you who don't know, I work for a law firm here in Chicago.

I'm working on something Olney related. I need two bits of information.

1. What is his middle initial?
2. Do we know how old he is?

I have this for a birthdate:

June 27, 1953

[Matt Algren]

What the --?!? He's using kids with cancer to sell the story?Yeah, it was pretty unbelieveable (http://www.grantbond.com/bulletin/viewtopic.php?t=29&sid=276a6b11bf971c4bbdf6aecbcbf63d0d) for me at first. And it happened kind of funny like, because I had gotten a request to send some comics via my connection then to ORCA (Organized Readers of Comics Associated) from SkyWalker Ranch to a kid's cancer benefit. So after sending out like 3000, I got a thank you letter signed by George that also instructed me to go see the film.

At that time, a friend of mine was also dealing with brain cancer and he was a huge Star Wars and sports figure geek and collector. He really wanted to go to see the film, and his wife and oldest daughter were both nurses ... so the four of us went. Now, I never figured on anything other than maybe a credit in the end film credits. And that would've been cool enough ... but those credits were the smallest and fastest rolling I'd ever seen. So I dismissed the whole matter. My friend, Steve...he died a few weeks later. But we enjoyed that film together and I'm glad to have seen it with him.

Now a bunch of weeks pass... and I'm in Toys R Us looking for a birthday present for my oldest grandson. As I'm like most comic book readers, I walk down through the action figure aisle ... and I'm looking at all the Episode One figures on display. Then I spot it! Looking up I see the starship captain figure that wasn't identified by name in the film. The name "Ric Olie" is just too much a coincidence and then it all comes together. It was George's way of thanking me. Like "Ric Olie" giving young Anakin Skywalker his first flying lesson, I had been giving kids (and kids with cancer via Lucas' charity event) their first comic books. That's what ORCA did. We pumped comics into schools, hospitals, and we created some of the first library outreach efforts to put comics and sequentially driven books on library shelves as early as 1994. Our free comics giving away efforts actually pre-date Diamond's FCBD efforts. And truth further be told, my contacts with Diamond back then heavily touted our efforts with suggestions for getting them to work with us in placing comics even on the slightly damaged, yet readable level, places where ORCA had tread. Then Joe Field and Diamond created FCBD. Were those things related? I don't know. Most of us that worked within ORCA at the time thought so, and it was a good thing.

Anyway, I bought all those "Ric Olie" figures that day. And I later found out from a toy collector/dealer that of the two most rare figures of that film were the "Rick Olie" one and a Queen Amadala figure in some different, more elaborate costume. 'Course, my love of Star Wars and all things George Lucas has never waned.

Thanks for letting me share this here, Grant. It is a pleasure being here on your message board.

[Kozemp]

Here's a sobering thought, and maybe Ronee can shed some light.

It isn't THAT hard to set up a dummy account, and we know he's done it before.

So why is Lying Fuck suddenly and completely silent?

Could he actually, in fact, have talked to a lawyer who finally told him to shut the fuck up?

If that is the case, well... perhaps a test of his resolve in following that directive.

JLK
whose resolve is STEEL! when lawyers tell him to shut the fuck up

[KevinTBrown]

Rich's middle initial is 'L,' someone close to him tells me.

Gail

You have a PM, Gail.

:)

[Scott Shaw!]

Rich's middle initial is 'L,' someone close to him tells me.

Gail

Well, THAT'S convenient to remember! It matches the big "L" on his forehead.

Aloha,

Scott!

[Kozemp]

What the --?!? He's using kids with cancer to sell the story?

You got that from Grant Bond's site, right?

I swear I read that exact story WORD FOR WORD someplace else. Comicon, maybe, or his blog?

Does the fucker keep a copy on his hard drive to CAP onto whatever place on the internet he decides to deep-six on a given day?

JLK
I have a star wars character named after me, but I won't tell you which

[Wil Radcliffe]

Rich's middle initial is 'L,' someone close to him tells me.

Gail

That explains everything! He's kin to the Luthors!

[Joshua Pantalleresco]

Here's a sobering thought, and maybe Ronee can shed some light.

It isn't THAT hard to set up a dummy account, and we know he's done it before.

So why is Lying Fuck suddenly and completely silent?

Could he actually, in fact, have talked to a lawyer who finally told him to shut the fuck up?

If that is the case, well... perhaps a test of his resolve in following that directive.

JLK
whose resolve is STEEL! when lawyers tell him to shut the fuck up

He ain't coming back. Real action is coming down on him now. You have people who are passing his information around now and you have people who are covering people's legal expenses (Mark Waid rocks!)...he's too dense to think he's in the wrong here at all. So he either comes on here and begs for mercy or he melts down and makes a bigger ass out of himself, or says nothing. Which at least can't bury him any further.

This has nothing to do with a lawyer. More to do with the fact that he's panicking now. He's screwed himself and everyone connected to him. If he even has a shred of sanity, he'll never come back here except to apologize to everyone he's hurt. And if he's not willing to do that...

JP

[TomStillwell]

Thanks both Gail and Coleen.

Should have something of note later today.

[Blake Petit]

[PRIVACY]We don't announce those things on public boards, or even through direct communication. When it's time for a meeting, we release an issue of All-Star Batman And Robin to let all of the insiders know. There's not been a lot of pressing business lately.[/PIVACY]

Okay, this is officially the funniest thing I've read all day. Seriously, milk shot out of my nose. And I wasn't even drinking any milk.

[EdContradictory]

Rich's middle initial is 'L,' someone close to him tells me.

Gail
Rick Lame-ass Olney?

[Joshua Pantalleresco]

Okay, this is officially the funniest thing I've read all day. Seriously, milk shot out of my nose. And I wasn't even drinking any milk.

lmao. That was awesome...so yeah, what will come out first, AS Batman or Ultimates? Any bets?

JP

[KevinTBrown]

Rick Lame-ass Olney?

Nope.


Rick LIAR Olney.

[Coppervale Studio]

From Wil Wheaton's journal:

"Q is really like a stupid Internet Troll; he makes some stupid accusation against Picard, Picard refutes his argument with logic and reason, and Q just changes the terms of the argument, all the while enjoying the attention he's getting."

**********

So, basically, Rick is like the real world Q.

"You stupid mortals! I have powers, you know. Really. Powers. I swear to me."

[Kozemp]

He ain't coming back. Real action is coming down on him now. You have people who are passing his information around now and you have people who are covering people's legal expenses (Mark Waid rocks!)...he's too dense to think he's in the wrong here at all. So he either comes on here and begs for mercy or he melts down and makes a bigger ass out of himself, or says nothing. Which at least can't bury him any further.

This has nothing to do with a lawyer. More to do with the fact that he's panicking now. He's screwed himself and everyone connected to him. If he even has a shred of sanity, he'll never come back here except to apologize to everyone he's hurt. And if he's not willing to do that...

JP

We've had insinuations and implications, but can anyone here say they actually, definitely served him, or... shall we say... "know of someone who did?"

If people have done so and honestly can't talk about it, that we understand, but his silence is really quite vexing.

JLK
it vexes me. I'm terribly vexed.

[Wil Radcliffe]

Okay, this is officially the funniest thing I've read all day. Seriously, milk shot out of my nose. And I wasn't even drinking any milk.

And that's the funniest thing I've read all day!

[EdContradictory]

Well, one of Rick's biggest braggy boasts turns out to be, as we all suspected, more Olney horseshit.

Man, did he mess with the wrong community. Turns out one of my MySpace friends has worked for LucasFilms and knows the guy who created the Ric Olie character design. He'd never heard of Olney or Orca, flat out. He asked around, NO ONE involved had. They have serious doubts about the free comics story, too, apparently.

Nice one, Rick. Wrong people to try that on, entirely.

Gail

Who said Christmas is over? This thread is the gift that keeps on giving.

I actually believed that story all these years.

Now I'm totally questioning if even actually served.

[Matt Doc Martin]

Who said Christmas is over? This thread is the gift that keeps on giving.

I actually believed that story all these years.

Now I'm totally questioning if even actually served.

I believe he served, But he likes to say he is a veteran who served during Viet Nam. BUT, it looks like if he signed up, it was at the END of the war, and he was never IN Viet Nam. The way he spins things, though, you would think he took out Charlie singlehandedly. I know you don't have to be in war to be a veteran, but I never call myself one. I let people who fight for this country use the term. I just served some time.

Oh, and he washed out of the Guard.

[Blake Petit]

And that's the funniest thing I've read all day!

Sweet. :cool:

:gives self gold star:

[MacQuarrie]

TBy the way, check THIS (http://www.google.com/search?q=%22rick+olney%22+%22ric+olie%22&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a) shit out. Fucker's been spreading the SW story far and wide...
Looks like I have a new hobby, spreading the truth far and wide.


This is false. Gail Simone, writer for DC Comics' Birds of Prey, The Atom, Secret Six, etc., has investigated: http://forums.comicbookresources.com/showpost.php?p=4227033&postcount=5251

Rick's been spreading this bit of malarkey far and wide as part of his campaign of fraud and theft. Google his name, or that of his "company", TightLip Entertainment.

[EdContradictory]

I believe he served, But he likes to say he is a veteran who served during Viet Nam. BUT, it looks like if he signed up, it was at the END of the war, and he was never IN Viet Nam. The way he spins things, though, you would think he took out Charlie singlehandedly.
That's how I took his recent spin on it... but now I wonder... a guy who'd lie about Star Wars would lie about anything...

[PatrickG]

Glad to see the Ric Olie BS finally quashed.
My place as the only comic creator to be referenced in SW canon is secure.

Olney would actually have to be a creator even if the claim were true.

Can I play the dubious connection game?

Spielberg's frequent collaborator Barbara Gerard is my... ah... grandaunt by marriage, thrice removed. He named her after me when I saved seventeen orphan ducks from a burning trash compactor with my jetpack. I'm sane.

Gerard Christopher? The Superboy actor? He... changed his name in honor of me when, at the age of three, I halted a police riot in the outskirts of China by firing twinkees with a slingshot into a pit of alligators. I'm sane.

Wow. It's practically Madlibs.

I got a cool one... My birthday is June 18th. Clark Kent's birthday (distinguished from Superman's -- February 29th) has sometimes been given as June 18th. Bud Collyer, who voiced Superman on the radio, was born June 18th -- as was Paul McCartney. June 18th is Autistic Pride Day.

Obviously, prophecies of my birth led Paul McCartney and Bud Collyer's parents to conceive on a certain date. I make Autistics proud. And Clark Kent is trying to impersonate me. I'm sane.

[Wil Radcliffe]

I got a cool one... My birthday is June 18th.

REALLY? Me too! What year? Mine's '68.

[SUPERECWFAN1]

Are we talking about the George W Bush National Guard ? Because from what I remember thats where he served to stay away from the War.



Edit: What really irks me is Olney according to one post was born on my ftahers birthday. And I was Born June 25th as well.

[PatrickG]

I believe he served, But he likes to say he is a veteran who served during Viet Nam. BUT, it looks like if he signed up, it was at the END of the war, and he was never IN Viet Nam. The way he spins things, though, you would think he took out Charlie singlehandedly. I know you don't have to be in war to be a veteran, but I never call myself one. I let people who fight for this country use the term. I just served some time.

Oh, and he washed out of the Guard.

Somebody should ask Secretary of Defense Micah Wright if he remembers serving with Admiral Rick Olney on the Joint Chiefs of Staff blackops nightvision kung-fu grip division of the marines in the Vietnamese Civil War of 1812.

[Wil Radcliffe]

Are we talking about the George W Bush National Guard ? Because from what I remember thats where he served to stay away from the War.

Now, let's be fair. We don't know that he served in the Guard to stay out of the war.

That just might have been where the best parties were.

[Josh Simon]

I just started reading this guys myspace page. I mean, is this for real? Can someone actually be this self absorbed and diluted?

[PatrickG]

Are we talking about the George W Bush National Guard ? Because from what I remember thats where he served to stay away from the War.



Edit: What really irks me is Olney according to one post was born on my ftahers birthday. And I was Born June 25th as well.

Oh. Heh.

No offense, CW... But...

At leasy Olney isn't a Gemini. I get tired of that bum "two-faced" rap.

However, it can be said that Rick Olney is a cancer.

Astrologically. Astrologically!

I can call him a cancer all day long and it isn't libel!

[EdContradictory]

I just started reading this guys myspace page. I mean, is this for real? Can someone actually be this self absorbed and diluted?

Depending on how much water his self absorbed he could be very diluted.

[Blake Petit]

Olney would actually have to be a creator even if the claim were true.

Can I play the dubious connection game?

Spielberg's frequent collaborator Barbara Gerard is my... ah... grandaunt by marriage, thrice removed. He named her after me when I saved seventeen orphan ducks from a burning trash compactor with my jetpack. I'm sane.

Gerard Christopher? The Superboy actor? He... changed his name in honor of me when, at the age of three, I halted a police riot in the outskirts of China by firing twinkees with a slingshot into a pit of alligators. I'm sane.

Wow. It's practically Madlibs.

I got a cool one... My birthday is June 18th. Clark Kent's birthday (distinguished from Superman's -- February 29th) has sometimes been given as June 18th. Bud Collyer, who voiced Superman on the radio, was born June 18th -- as was Paul McCartney. June 18th is Autistic Pride Day.

Obviously, prophecies of my birth led Paul McCartney and Bud Collyer's parents to conceive on a certain date. I make Autistics proud. And Clark Kent is trying to impersonate me. I'm sane.

Since we're bringing this stuff up, by the time I was four years old news of my greatness had already reached the ears of Aaron Spelling, who was so impressed that this child could shout out the numbers as his mother turned the knob on the television set (this was back when television sets had knobs, kids), that he saw no recourse but to name the main character in Dynasty after me.

[Wil Radcliffe]

Depending on how much water his self absorbed he could be very diluted.

Sorry, Blake. This is now the funniest thing I've read all day.

[Sarah Beach]

As for why he's staying silent.... my thoughts....

In the past on the internet, when he's pissed off a community, and been kicked out, he's happily moved on to the next one. I was thinking about why he does this last night on my drive home, and remembered something from Helter Skelter about Charles Manson. DA Bugliosi was told by someone who'd been around the Family that Charlie feeds off fear.

I think Himself feeds off anger. Look at how he loves to provoke people, to get them all riled up. He doesn't mind being kicked out when people do it in a fit of anger -- anger that he continues to feed by making jabs at those folks when he talks of them in other venues. If he knows what pisses you off, he'll press that button every chance he gets. Thus, his always addressing Momma Absurd as "Daph" -- he KNOWS, because she told him, that it pisses her off. She should have punctured that by starting to sign herself "Daffy Daph" just to him. Notice how flat his insults to me have been since I didn't get pissed at the Beach/bitch play -- and instead played off it. I gave him no hold over me.

But there's a big difference in what has happened in this thread. Things have NOT gone "the usual way" here. Instead of the community closing ranks and casting him into the outer darkness, it has OPENED ranks, drawing in more and more people who have been afflicted by him. And people have been comparing notes in depth in a way that has never happened before. In the past, once he was out, the attacked community just moved on, and if he came up the reaction was usually "Ew. That guy. Glad he's gone." A side consequence of this was that his direct victims (those stiffed for money, and personally sluged with his slime) bottled the injury up in silence and tried to move on, because even talking about it felt bad. So they not only did not get paid, but had this garbage festering in them. But here in this thread, they were encouraged to vent it all. And wonder of wonders, they found that not only was the venting good, they were not alone: not alone in being the only one who got suckered by Olney; not alone in being poisoned in psyche by him; not alone in finding support in appreciation of their abilities (which his poison made them think were unworthy). All of this is NOT "the usual course of events."

The banding together took away the fear and anger - at least the stuff he feeds off. The burning fury got directed to positive action. People started mocking him, which definitely undercuts the kind of poison he spreads, because for all his pompous attempts with the language, he's not particularly smart. (Clever, yes, to dupe people for so long, but not smart.) And when even the casual posters here proved to be smarter and wittier than he, it became a losing battle.

He's afraid now. Because the smart people here are proving to be very good detectives, unearthing ALL his crap. And they're finally calling his lawyer bluff, with which he has intimidated far too many people. Not only calling the bluff, but raising him, with real lawyers and legal action. The game suddenly got serious, and it's not so much fun for him anymore.

Eh. It's been an interesting specimen study for me. And I've gained a number of new friends that are way cool. (Oh! And Kevin & Tom! I'm dying of curiousity too. PM, please? :) )

Will he ever post here again? Dinno. His lack of caution is difficult to gage. I don't think we've seen the last of this story. But we've definitely hit a turning point in it. :D

Okay.... enough with the post semi-mortum. :)

[Blake Petit]

Sorry, Blake. This is now the funniest thing I've read all day.

Damn.

:removes gold star:

[SUPERECWFAN1]

Now, let's be fair. We don't know that he served in the Guard to stay out of the war.

That just might have been where the best parties were.


Of course I heard G.W loves to play this song in the White House. While throwin a kick ass party now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOJNPdc9s2Y

[Josh Simon]

Depending on how much water his self absorbed he could be very diluted.

Thanks for pointing out my mistake, i meant deluded, I did....I swear....

[PatrickG]

Since we're bringing this stuff up, by the time I was four years old news of my greatness had already reached the ears of Aaron Spelling, who was so impressed that this child could shout out the numbers as his mother turned the knob on the television set (this was back when television sets had knobs, kids), that he saw no recourse but to name the main character in Dynasty after me.

Man... You must be crazy.

(I figure by the rules of "Olney says", you have to say you're sane or you're not.)

[Blake Petit]

Well, I WAS saving that for when I got around to explaining how I'm the reason TVs DON'T have knobs anymore, but sheesh... :P

[Josh Simon]

I also love Tightlip Ent. myspace page is set to private. Why would you set a business account to private. Isn't the point of a myspace page for a business to increase interest?

[wishlish]

Quashed BIG time. They found the whole thing ridiculous.

And nice to have you back, Jar Jar!

:)

Ladies and gentlemen, one of the people Rick should never have taken on.

Gail

Jeez, Gail. I mean, it was one thing to expose him as a liar and a fraud. It was another thing to get people to sue him. And we've insulted him into silence. Soon, he'll be exposed via TV and newspapers. His life will be gone.

But now...now you've taken away the ACTION FIGURE. Will you not rest? Have you no heart? Will you leave him with nothing? His home will soon be seized by creditors, his friends are all gone, even his family can't want to stick around. We, as humans, could have left him little Ric Olie, all of 5 articulated inches of him, as some comfort in jail.

Did you have to take that away from him?

...

Damn straight you had to.
Keep up the good work!

[KevinTBrown]

(Oh! And Kevin & Tom! I'm dying of curiousity too. PM, please? :) )



Done, Sarah.

:)

[EdContradictory]

Did he remove mention of Ric Olie from his MySpace page? It was there before, wasn't it?

[Crowley]

something funny:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&client=firefox-a&channel=s&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=Wsk&q=%22rick+olney%22&btnG=Search

now at number 3!

[KevinTBrown]

something funny:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&client=firefox-a&channel=s&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=Wsk&q=%22rick+olney%22&btnG=Search

now at number 3!

Even better, it shows the title of this thread: "Rick Olney--Fibber or Mega-Giganta-Fibber?" :D

[Matt Doc Martin]

Did he remove mention of Ric Olie from his MySpace page? It was there before, wasn't it?

I don't see it there.

BUT:

And, I'd be remiss in (again) not plugging my own forums found here. Just click the community button. No muss or fuss. A "tight" [pun intended] and secure community free of spyware and bots.

Wasn't his community ONLY populated by bots?

[Matt Doc Martin]

Even better, it shows the title of this thread: "Rick Olney--Fibber or Mega-Giganta-Fibber?" :D

Even better than that: 7 of 10 point out what a jackass he is.

[Josh Simon]

Did he remove mention of Ric Olie from his MySpace page? It was there before, wasn't it?

don't see it on there.

[EdContradictory]

Apparently he won't even respond to TV stars:

http://comicsworthreading.com/2006/09/18/mini-con-cancelled/

It is unfortunate what Rick and his family has been through. HOWEVER, he could have gone way of professional etiquette and given some notice that the event was cancelled. Moreover, he could have responded to any of my of my TAPS colleagues emails and voicemails asking what was going on and if the conference was still on. Many of us saved that weekend for his conference, for which he had us sign a contract months before, when we could have made plans to be at other venues OR made plans with OUR families and friends. I tell all of you and would say to Rick himself, that he is unreliable and people should not sign contracts with him, save dates for him, or book plane tickets and buy tickets for his venues, etc.
Comment by Paula 10.10.06 @ 2:18 pm

Careful TAPS, you're gonna get sued!

[rummblestrips]

REALLY? Me too! What year? Mine's '68.

huh?!
Mine is too
June 18th, 74

I'm feelin a bond happening here.
The birthday
the disgust of Rick
the joy of porn..

wait a sec...

[KevinTBrown]

huh?!
Mine is too
74

I'm feelin a bond happening here.
The birthday
the disgust of Rick
the joy of porn..

wait a sec...

mMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmMMMM... Porn.








Wait! Did I say that out loud?????

:o

Damn.

[JeffreyWKramer]

Glad to see the Ric Olie BS finally quashed.
My place as the only comic creator to be referenced in SW canon is secure.

Good to see you here, Mr. Dixon.

[khuxford]

Anyone notice that...on the actual Star Wars forums...he actually went back and edited his post to make no claim that it was named after him but only asked if anyone knows of any previous existence of the character in novels and what not. LOL What. A. Tool.

[neko onna]

Anyone notice that...on the actual Star Wars forums...he actually went back and edited his post to make no claim that it was named after him but only asked if anyone knows of any previous existence of the character in novels and what not. LOL What. A. Tool.

BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHahahahaaaaaa!!!

you see..he was asking those questions about the character so he could find out if there was a character history he would have to deal within his fibbing..

[Joshua Pantalleresco]

Anyone notice that...on the actual Star Wars forums...he actually went back and edited his post to make no claim that it was named after him but only asked if anyone knows of any previous existence of the character in novels and what not. LOL What. A. Tool.


You think George Lucas might be on his coattails too? bwaahahahahahahahahahahaha

[Jeff Brady]

This is what I miss when I lay down for a few hours.

Here it is: 70 W. Main St. Mohawk, NY 13407

This is from the domain registration for the TightLip website, according to Bright-Raven's digging.

And I still think tax evasion is an interesting avenue to pursue.

If it worked for Al Capone, it's good enough for Dick.

What about a super hero who lives in a funeral ho0me?

That could work.

'scuse me, I have to go write...

Ah, dammit!

Yes, and the bad guy from Time Trax? Totally modeled after me.

C'mon. Mordecai? All they did was loose the "h"!

Yeah, and that Civil War photographer was the result of a retcon punch!

[wishlish]

Oops, double post.

[Matt Doc Martin]

Anyone notice that...on the actual Star Wars forums...he actually went back and edited his post to make no claim that it was named after him but only asked if anyone knows of any previous existence of the character in novels and what not. LOL What. A. Tool.

I made some copies before he edited them.

[KevinTBrown]

I made some copies before he edited them.

That sound you hear now is Olney hitting the floor after fainting dead away....

[EdContradictory]

I made some copies before he edited them.

Links to what he edited and posts of the originals?

[MacQuarrie]

Anyone notice that...on the actual Star Wars forums...he actually went back and edited his post to make no claim that it was named after him but only asked if anyone knows of any previous existence of the character in novels and what not. LOL What. A. Tool.

It's still there in another thread, one that happens to be locked. Hee!

http://forums.starwars.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2806&start=30

[SUPERECWFAN1]

I voted this Thread of the Year for the Corries . Anyone else Voting ?

[JeffreyWKramer]

I voted this Thread of the Year for the Corries . Anyone else Voting ?

Although it started in 2006, this thread didn't really take off until 2007.

[Matt Doc Martin]

It's still there in another thread, one that happens to be locked. Hee!

http://forums.starwars.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2806&start=30

And copied again!

[MacQuarrie]

Who else is planning to fly to upstate NY to watch the trial?

[KevinTBrown]

Who else is planning to fly to upstate NY to watch the trial?

Seriously, there are some who may have no choice since they'll be testifying.

[EdContradictory]

Although it started in 2006, this thread didn't really take off until 2007.
No way, it was in full swing last year. It just didn't bear fruit until this year.

[MacQuarrie]

Seriously, there are some who may have no choice since they'll be testifying.
Looks like there will be a lot of guests for MightyMiniCon '07. Dick should start announcing it.

[Kozemp]

Seriously, there are some who may have no choice since they'll be testifying.

ARGH!

Please tell me this means someone actually did something concrete.

That would make my day.

JLK
well, do ya, punk?

[NatGertler]

Okay, this is officially the funniest thing I've read all day. Seriously, milk shot out of my nose. And I wasn't even drinking any milk.Thank you for cooperating in my attempt to solve the world's milk shortage.

[DocAbsurd]

I know my Star Wars collectibles. I don't adhere to any price guide cuz I collect for the sheer joy of amassing toys, but I know my Star Wars collectibles.

Ric Olie was a peg-warmer, a figure that's usually left behind when the popular ones are well-and-truly sold out. He was never 'rare', never 'hard to find' and most certainly never 'sought after'.

I just did a search on eBay, for shits and giggles. The average starting bid is about a $1.50; shipping is more than the figure. The only expensive one is the MOC figure with the tri-color logo (those sold in Canada) and that's expensive because of the affixed sticker not because of the character. There's 21 figures currently on open bid, and 2 opening offers, for $1.91 on a Spanish chip version and $.30.

That's thirty cents, folks.

Don't rush all once. Supplies aren't limited enough.




Doc 'Opening Bid' Absurd

[Matt Algren]

Is this the iKill picture "Rick" put up? I've been filtered all week.

http://img377.imageshack.us/img377/6933/ikill7ag.jpg

[Typo Lad]

That's the nubbin.

[EdContradictory]

Seriously, there are some who may have no choice since they'll be testifying.
Looks like there will be a lot of guests for MightyMiniCon '07. Dick should start announcing it.
http://images.dawgsports.com/images/admin/Nicholson_closeup_A_Few_Good_Men.jpg
Olney: What is this? I did my job, I'd do it again. I'm gonna get in a smelly car and go attend an empty panel at my con.

Judge: You're not going anywhere, Olney.

Olney: What is this? I'm being charged with not paying people? Is that what this is? I'm being charged with taking people's money and work? This is funny. That's what this is. This is-- [leaps towards Matt Doc Martin] I'm gonna rip the eyes out of your head and piss into your dead skull! You f*cked with the wrong pretend Marine!

[MacQuarrie]

Is this the iKill picture "Rick" put up? I've been filtered all week.

http://img377.imageshack.us/img377/6933/ikill7ag.jpg

Yup, that's the one.

[DocAbsurd]

Wonder if Moby realizes he goaded us into investigating his claims? I knew about this story for 2 years and never thought about it once.

Anyway.

Doing some research on rebelscum.com and found this (http://threads.rebelscum.com/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=UBB3&Number=1392111&Forum=f3&Words=ric%20olie&Searchpage=0&Limit=25&Main=1392111&Search=true&where=bodysub&Name=&daterange=1&newerval=&newertype=&olderval=&oldertype=&bodyprev=#Post1392111).

Apparently Ric Olie is so popular, the figure is still being found on the shelves 9 years later.

Now that is staying power.




Doc 'Bargain at Half the Price' Absurd

[Calliope's Comics]

Saturday, January 06, 2007

Creating Long-Term Benefits...

My last few blogs tended toward being very pessimistic, as I described just a few of the ways in which malicious individual's have attempted to harm me and/or TightLip Entertainment during the past 6 months. I wanted those blog posts to act as a strong forewarning to anyone choosing to enter any kind of business associated or affiliated with the comic book entertainment industry: You need to be aware that there are not only sociopaths out there, but also jealous spiteful people who will work hard to destroy your successes, just to make themselves feel a little better.

So, OK, the world around us is rife with potential predators who would like nothing more than to kill our dreams. That knowledge can be bitter, especially after someone has managed to breach our best defenses and inflicted grievous harm on us. It's happened me a few times since the mid 1980's where comics and their direction is concerned. And it is still, obviously, happening today. Regardless of whether you're in business or simply trying to make your way in the world, however, the key to a successful life is able to rationalize the concept of "two steps forward, one step back." Or... simply be prepared to turn to legal or otherwise avenues of solving your mistaken steps. It is life.

For anyone following my ongoing struggle, please understand that -- I have no problem paying what is owed to those individuals that have not broken their NDA's. I'm only awaiting word of those determinations.

I'm aware that contracts were broken. But everyone was legally contracted of those individuals that worked on TOTS #1. Those individuals that have maintained their professionalism and not allowed themselves to be sucked into this mess will be paid first. Once that takes place, I assume they'll either tell the rest of those involved or primarily be glad that the mess (where their concerned) is over.

Far as the other mean spirited things said here -- Well, we'll see. It is clear to me that several people still have no concept of what has taken place or how it happened ... or even what part they now are being played or playing in it at all. Again, hence the need for legal attention. That isn't a take a cheap shot at Rick Olney thread and walk away untouched. That's all I'm going to say, and that isn't a threat -- But with Mark Waid fronting any and all comers regarding civil suits my way -- take him up on it if you're impatient and lacking understanding.

Just as you can't put the genie back in its bottle, you can't put a broken relationship back together with a simple exchange of monies due. Parties involved have stepped over those lines and it all has to be reckoned with legally. How many more ways can I say this so it is understood?

Currently listening :
Taking The Long Way
By Dixie Chicks
Release date: By 23 May, 2006

[Typo Lad]

Is... is he actually actively pushing Mr. Waid's offer?

Oh yes, that is very bright.

[EdContradictory]

For anyone following my ongoing struggle, please understand that -- I have no problem paying what is owed to those individuals that have not broken their NDA's. I'm only awaiting word of those determinations.


Or... you know, he could have paid everyone months ago like he was supposed to.

[Matt Doc Martin]

Wonder if Moby realizes he goaded us into investigating his claims? I knew about this story for 2 years and never thought about it once.

Anyway.

Doing some research on rebelscum.com and found this (http://threads.rebelscum.com/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=UBB3&Number=1392111&Forum=f3&Words=ric%20olie&Searchpage=0&Limit=25&Main=1392111&Search=true&where=bodysub&Name=&daterange=1&newerval=&newertype=&olderval=&oldertype=&bodyprev=#Post1392111).

Apparently Ric Olie is so popular, the figure is still being found on the shelves 9 years later.

Now that is staying power.




Doc 'Bargain at Half the Price' Absurd
Copied and added to the file!

[rummblestrips]

Real Ric Olie
Total Posts: 5
Member Since: 09/01

Locked |

Date Posted: Oct 20, 2001 09:20 AM

My actual birth name is Rick Olney. Through a series of contacts waaaaay back before Star Wars: Episode 1 with the gang at SkyWalker Ranch, I became fortunate enough to have a character, "Ric Olie" named after me.

You'll have to ask George Lucas the rest of the story. :D I'm just very honored to be linked in such a small way to the greatest scientific space fantasy ever created! Thank(s) to my friends at SkyWalker Ranch! I'm looking forward to the next installment!

Best,
Rick
www.orcafresh.net


bawaahahahahahha
I'd call him a tool, but that would be insulting to my hammer

[Matt Algren]

That's the nubbin.

Yup, that's the one.
Did he not realize that the image carries (what could be defined as) an anti-Marine sentiment? It's saying that if you're a Marine, your prime objective is to kill. Otherwise it would be "iDefend" or "iProtect" or "iBrave" or somesuch.

It just seems weird for a Marine (which I know people are starting to doubt) to perpetuate that notion. Is it just me, or did he not get the joke?

[Kozemp]

What in sweet fucking fuck is a "scientific space fantasy?"

JLK
seriously, what is it

[Chris N]

http://images.dawgsports.com/images/admin/Nicholson_closeup_A_Few_Good_Men.jpg
Olney: What is this? I did my job, I'd do it again. I'm gonna get in a smelly car and go attend an empty panel at my con.

Judge: You're not going anywhere, Olney.

Olney: What is this? I'm being charged with not paying people? Is that what this is? I'm being charged with taking people's money and work? This is funny. That's what this is. This is-- [leaps towards Matt Doc Martin] I'm gonna rip the eyes out of your head and piss into your dead skull! You f*cked with the wrong pretend Marine!

I approve.

[Matt Algren]

Is... is he actually actively pushing Mr. Waid's offer?

Oh yes, that is very bright.Somehow he's got it in his head that he can sue someone for paying legal fees for someone else.

[Matt Doc Martin]

http://images.dawgsports.com/images/admin/Nicholson_closeup_A_Few_Good_Men.jpg
Olney: What is this? I did my job, I'd do it again. I'm gonna get in a smelly car and go attend an empty panel at my con.

Judge: You're not going anywhere, Olney.

Olney: What is this? I'm being charged with not paying people? Is that what this is? I'm being charged with taking people's money and work? This is funny. That's what this is. This is-- [leaps towards Matt Doc Martin] I'm gonna rip the eyes out of your head and piss into your dead skull! You f*cked with the wrong pretend Marine!


Ahahahhahahaha!!

[Draconomicon]

http://images.dawgsports.com/images/admin/Nicholson_closeup_A_Few_Good_Men.jpg
Olney: What is this? I did my job, I'd do it again. I'm gonna get in a smelly car and go attend an empty panel at my con.

Judge: You're not going anywhere, Olney.

Olney: What is this? I'm being charged with not paying people? Is that what this is? I'm being charged with taking people's money and work? This is funny. That's what this is. This is-- [leaps towards Matt Doc Martin] I'm gonna rip the eyes out of your head and piss into your dead skull! You f*cked with the wrong pretend Marine!

Pure comedy gold!

[neko onna]

It amazes me that he STILL thinks the NDA is going to protect him...

[Erik Burnham]

Somehow he's got it in his head that he can sue someone for paying legal fees for someone else.

Well of course he can.

He just doesn't have a snowball's chance of winning. So hey, if he wants to waste the court's time... (:

[Calliope's Comics]

orcafresh:

General / The World We Live In / Re: GAY MARRIAGE - Any thoughts? on: Tue, August 10, 2004, 10:43:18
Heh, heh... too funny. ;D

Hmmm... "gay" marriage, as in the 29years I've spent thus far were not happy ones?

Oh! Oh! Okay, now I get it... No, I'm not an advocate for allowing homosexual and lesbian people to enjoy the "fruits" of what I've had, benefits wise, within my partnership. I know this will offend some people, and I'm sorry... but Corporate America is just looking for another reason to raise my various and many costs of living. So I'm gainst giving them any more of an edge in defining the basics of "marriage."

Plus - I see it as a door opening to allow further acceptances to be lobbied on the American system of laws and governing. People exist in society that would have perversities like beastiality and pedophilia recognized and accepted. How long before those topics get focus by narrow lideral thinking? <he politely states, as stepping behind his rotten fruit shield>

[DocAbsurd]

Did some more research. Checked into rebelscum and GalacticHunter. There is no mention of this '8 Degrees of Anakin' story anywhere on those forums. And both are the top sites in Star Wars collectibles.

Y'know, I think I'm gonna pop off an email tomorrow to both those sites, see if they've heard any claims like that.

This is fun. Too bad I broke off ties with Moby before he sent me my autographed figure like he also promised me 3 years ago.




Doc 'Toy Investigator' Absurd

[Calliope's Comics]

orcafresh:
22 General / The World We Live In / Re: Rating Systems for Comic Books on: Wed, February 25, 2004, 06:22:16

Yeah, I sort of always felt like the bastard grampa of that FCBD stuff. I know Joe Field got it all rolling, but I began ORCA back in 1993 giving comic books away (comic books of ALL kinds to ALL kinds of readers), and I wrote thousands of letters each month to retailers all across the country and up into Canada promoting ORCA, reading, and our free comic book give-away stuff.
Never meaning to steal Joe Field's thunder... I also wrote on many an instance to Diamond and Gemstone, Wizard and all the present day of that time (now gone) fanzines. Yeah, me... still trying to help where I can. I placed my "Comics in the Classroom" concept in CrossGen's hands and after some co-working together...they crafted their BRIDGES program. I didn't care because it worked great for me to direct parents, teachers, and librarians to it.

Don't mean to blow my own horn or sound like I'm ranting... I could walk away from all this at any time, because it only seems to take from me, but I can't because to many of my group members depend on me. Besides the fcat that I really enjoy various facets of this all ... like plugging Billy's stuff whenever the opportunity presents itself.

ORCA has placed comic books (and GN's) in libraries and schools during its existence. Strangely, it was long before anyone else got recognized credit for it. Many a younger reader now in their mid-20's has learned from my group and peers. I can't help it if people are so blind they can't see...

[Sarah Beach]

Saturday, January 06, 2007

Creating Long-Term Benefits...

My last few blogs tended toward being very pessimistic, as I described just a few of the ways in which malicious individual's have attempted to harm me and/or TightLip Entertainment during the past 6 months. I wanted those blog posts to act as a strong forewarning to anyone choosing to enter any kind of business associated or affiliated with the comic book entertainment industry: You need to be aware that there are not only sociopaths out there, but also jealous spiteful people who will work hard to destroy your successes, just to make themselves feel a little better.

Those "last few blogs" he mentions? He deleted them. And not because they were "pessimistic". They were bitter and insulting toward a number of folks. And "sociopaths" is, I believe liked to Mike Netzer's open letter to him, and "jealous spiteful people" references Gail. Heh.

So, OK, the world around us is rife with potential predators who would like nothing more than to kill our dreams. That knowledge can be bitter, especially after someone has managed to breach our best defenses and inflicted grievous harm on us. It's happened me a few times since the mid 1980's where comics and their direction is concerned. And it is still, obviously, happening today. Regardless of whether you're in business or simply trying to make your way in the world, however, the key to a successful life is able to rationalize the concept of "two steps forward, one step back." Or... simply be prepared to turn to legal or otherwise avenues of solving your mistaken steps. It is life.

"Potential predators who would like nothing more than to kill our dreams." Which he has a dispicable history of attempting, by making people feel bad about the quality of the work he doesn' pay them for. Poison.

For anyone following my ongoing struggle, please understand that -- I have no problem paying what is owed to those individuals that have not broken their NDA's. I'm only awaiting word of those determinations.

Yeah, he's struggling really hard. Right. Sooooo fiercely.

I'm aware that contracts were broken. But everyone was legally contracted of those individuals that worked on TOTS #1. Those individuals that have maintained their professionalism and not allowed themselves to be sucked into this mess will be paid first. Once that takes place, I assume they'll either tell the rest of those involved or primarily be glad that the mess (where their concerned) is over.

"Everyone was legally contracted of those individuals that worked....." Huh? My head hurts. What is that that is passing as grammar there?

Far as the other mean spirited things said here -- Well, we'll see. It is clear to me that several people still have no concept of what has taken place or how it happened ... or even what part they now are being played or playing in it at all. Again, hence the need for legal attention. That isn't a take a cheap shot at Rick Olney thread and walk away untouched. That's all I'm going to say, and that isn't a threat -- But with Mark Waid fronting any and all comers regarding civil suits my way -- take him up on it if you're impatient and lacking understanding.

It amuses me that he doesn't really deny the "mean spirited things" said of him. Just "We'll see." Ah, peanut.... is anyone speaking up and testifying to the quality of your character? Please, I'd be interested in at least hearing from such.

Just as you can't put the genie back in its bottle, you can't put a broken relationship back together with a simple exchange of monies due. Parties involved have stepped over those lines and it all has to be reckoned with legally. How many more ways can I say this so it is understood?

That last little joyful note there, so charming, don't you think? Especially since it doesn't seem that anyone really wants to put their relationship "back together" with him. They just want their monies. "Stepped over those lines"... which lines? Breaking relationships that weren't really relationships? Exchanging monies (which hasn't happened anyway)? Ah, one could have quite a lot of fun pulling apart this facsimile of prose.

I don't have a mySpace account. And I wouldn't give him the gratification of responding there anyway. That would be playing to his audience. And why would I want that?

Hey ho.

[Mike Bullock]

orcafresh:
22 General / The World We Live In / Re: Rating Systems for Comic Books on: Wed, February 25, 2004, 06:22:16

Yeah, I sort of always felt like the bastard grampa of that FCBD stuff...


This guy is the Al Gore of the wannabe world...

[MacQuarrie]

This is fun. Too bad I broke off ties with Moby before he sent me my autographed figure like he also promised me 3 years ago.
Maybe he ran out of them. They are apparently very rare.. *snork!*

[Sarah Beach]

What in sweet fucking fuck is a "scientific space fantasy?"

JLK
seriously, what is it

Just what I was wondering too! And I've been reading SF for a looooooooong time. :p

[singoalla]

Here (http://www.comicscommunity.com/boards/alvin/?frames=n;read=653&expand=1) he says that he served "in-country". I assume he means he was in Vietnam?



Sat, 6/28/03, 5:34 pm
Views on Iraq

Alvin,
I'm wondering if you'd talk with me about Iraq? Do you have any views from your length of life to share with me? I served in the Marines during Viet Nam and managed 4 mos "in-country" and try as I might, I can't help but feel it was all devised to draw us in.

Any thoughts?
Regards,
--Rick

[khuxford]

orcafresh:
22 General / The World We Live In / Re: Rating Systems for Comic Books on: Wed, February 25, 2004, 06:22:16

Yeah, I sort of always felt like the bastard grampa of that FCBD stuff. I know Joe Field got it all rolling, but I began ORCA back in 1993 giving comic books away (comic books of ALL kinds to ALL kinds of readers), and I wrote thousands of letters each month to retailers all across the country and up into Canada promoting ORCA, reading, and our free comic book give-away stuff.
Never meaning to steal Joe Field's thunder... I also wrote on many an instance to Diamond and Gemstone, Wizard and all the present day of that time (now gone) fanzines. Yeah, me... still trying to help where I can. I placed my "Comics in the Classroom" concept in CrossGen's hands and after some co-working together...they crafted their BRIDGES program. I didn't care because it worked great for me to direct parents, teachers, and librarians to it.

Don't mean to blow my own horn or sound like I'm ranting... I could walk away from all this at any time, because it only seems to take from me, but I can't because to many of my group members depend on me. Besides the fcat that I really enjoy various facets of this all ... like plugging Billy's stuff whenever the opportunity presents itself.

ORCA has placed comic books (and GN's) in libraries and schools during its existence. Strangely, it was long before anyone else got recognized credit for it. Many a younger reader now in their mid-20's has learned from my group and peers. I can't help it if people are so blind they can't see...

I know someone who gave away comics on Halloween decades ago...Dick owes him royalties. :p

[Kozemp]

I really wish we could get someone from Crossgen to comment on the veracity (or likely lack thereof) of his claims that he invented Comics in the Classroom.

I mean, I'm guessing that no one who worked there had ever heard of him - hell, I'll put money on it - but firsthand knowledge sure would be nice.

Of course, we know of at least ONE person in this thread who was at CG Central...

JLK
kinda misses Crossgen, maybe a little bit

[rummblestrips]

I noticed on his myspace board that Tucci is a friend and also on his MMC page as well, then I see a pic of them together
Has someone warned Bill about what's happened?

[Dreadstar]

Here (http://www.comicscommunity.com/boards/alvin/?frames=n;read=653&expand=1) he says that he served "in-country". I assume he means he was in Vietnam?
I'm not going to say that he has or that it's true or anything, but if he's 2 or 3 years older than me, it's possible.

[Matt Doc Martin]

Here (http://www.comicscommunity.com/boards/alvin/?frames=n;read=653&expand=1) he says that he served "in-country". I assume he means he was in Vietnam?

He was never "in country". The closest he MAY have gotten was Okinawa. We weren't at war with the Japanese then.

Like "Ric Olie", like "creating FCBD", like "Orca the character was named after me", like "I am a wiccan", like "I sent the check 4 times...the post office lost it", like "my car didn't smell", like "my cons are a success", like "I am in the comics industry", like "I know Stan Lee", like ....well, fuck..I could go on and on.

How can you tell he's lying? He says or types something.

[DocAbsurd]

Don't mean to blow my own horn

What's stopping you, Moby? You've done a pretty fair job of doing so over the past few years.




Doc 'Put Your Lips Together' Absurd

[Sarah Beach]

Here (http://www.comicscommunity.com/boards/alvin/?frames=n;read=653&expand=1) he says that he served "in-country". I assume he means he was in Vietnam?

For the period (Vietnam era), that is indeed what it means. But only 4 months? Unless he was there in '75 during the Fall of Saigon, 4 months is a heck of a short tour to 'Nam. Unless he was indeed injured there. But, I admit, that's just my reaction - I don't know for sure.

[DocAbsurd]

He says he served 'in country'.

Note he doesn't say which country he served in.




Doc 'Semantics' Absurd

[TCJohnson]

"Hey, look! R.O. v Waid!"


That's hysterical!

[Chris N]

I noticed on his myspace board that Tucci is a friend and also on his MMC page as well, then I see a pic of them together
Has someone warned Bill about what's happened?

Yeah, let's assume they met once and took a picture. And Bill, like most celebs, isn't picky about who they accept as a myspace friend.

[Matt Doc Martin]

So Rick whined to CafePress about the articles. So, if you want one, Pm me. I have a friend with an account and I will make sure you get one.

I will still donate any proceeds to the fund along with $1 per item out of my pocket.

I repeat, for Rick's benefit:

There is NOTHING wrong with saying "Rick Olney never paid me". You never paid me. You never paid Tim. You never paid Chuck. And so many others.

here, in America, we have free speech.

Which means I can post this:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v91/docmartin72/various_032.jpg

And I can tell you to fuck off, asswipe.

And I will be getting me a shirt made.

Oh, and there are OTHER places to get shirts and such made as well.

[AIPman1]

I really wish we could get someone from Crossgen to comment on the veracity (or likely lack thereof) of his claims that he invented Comics in the Classroom.

I mean, I'm guessing that no one who worked there had ever heard of him - hell, I'll put money on it - but firsthand knowledge sure would be nice.

Of course, we know of at least ONE person in this thread who was at CG Central...

JLK
kinda misses Crossgen, maybe a little bit

but...but....he had crossgen ads on his orca site!!!!!

[Calliope's Comics]

I noticed on his myspace board that Tucci is a friend and also on his MMC page as well, then I see a pic of them together
Has someone warned Bill about what's happened?

I have posted it on the Crusade website, I will give Billy a call and let him know all that is going on.

[Draconomicon]

orcafresh:

General / The World We Live In / Re: GAY MARRIAGE - Any thoughts? on: Tue, August 10, 2004, 10:43:18
Heh, heh... too funny. ;D

Plus - I see it as a door opening to allow further acceptances to be lobbied on the American system of laws and governing. People exist in society that would have perversities like beastiality and pedophilia recognized and accepted. How long before those topics get focus by narrow lideral thinking? <he politely states, as stepping behind his rotten fruit shield>

....He compares Homosexuality to pedophilia and bestiality?
Good God!!!!

[Corrina]

I really wish we could get someone from Crossgen to comment on the veracity (or likely lack thereof) of his claims that he invented Comics in the Classroom.



Maybe Chuck Dixon could comment on that? It might not have been the marketing rather than the creative side of the company, so he might not know.

[Matt Doc Martin]

....He compares Homosexuality to pedophilia and bestiality?
Good God!!!!

He had no reservations comparing his joke of a company to Marvel and DC.

[TCJohnson]

heh.

I just went back to make copies of some of Rick's more disgusting comments, and man alive, when you read them in order, what a GODDAMN weakling IDIOT this guy is! I mean, these 'insults' are so tepidly and poorly delivered, with such poor spelling and clunky grammar, you can't help but think it's like he's firing the gun in the wrong direction, at himself, like each comment is actually saying, "Hey, look what a backwards ten-year-old moron I am!"
Gail

I especially like the comment about making it through the marines on his back...no matter how I look at it, he is insulting himself. It is like something out of a Bugs Bunny/Daffy Duck cartoon.

"You're a jerk!"
"No, you're a jerk!"
"No, You're a jerk!"
"No, I'm a jerk!"
"No, I'm a...wait..what?"

[EdContradictory]

but...but....he had crossgen ads on his orca site!!!!!

He still does, the non-updating douche.

http://www.orcafresh.net/ImagesHomeNew/crossgenb.gif

[JeffreyWKramer]

....He compares Homosexuality to pedophilia and bestiality?
Good God!!!!

Lots of douchebags do that.

[MacQuarrie]

So Rick whined to CafePress about the articles. So, if you want one, Pm me. I have a friend with an account and I will make sure you get one.
There's always Zazzle (http://www.zazzle.com)

[Papergirl]

That sound you hear now is Olney hitting the floor after fainting dead away....

You just officially made me snarf my root beer. Damn you! That HURTS!


*puts up a NSFD notice on the thread*

Bastards. The lot of you! You're all out to kill me, I just know it!

;)

~Bev

[AIPman1]

He still does, the non-updating douche.

http://www.orcafresh.net/ImagesHomeNew/crossgenb.gif

see, proof he invented the "bridges" program! Ah, my ignorance is bliss once more....

[TomStillwell]

No, I'm not. I totally believe he'd get his wife roped into legal trouble without letting her know what he was doing. He gave her something to sign and she signed it. That simple and that sleazy.

Hell, I wouldn't put it past him to make one of his kids a co-owner.

Looks like I wasn't too far off base.


2. OLNEY, BARBARA J
Possible Employment / Business Associations:
TIGHTLIP ENTERTAINMENT

[rexmundi666]

So Rick whined to CafePress about the articles. So, if you want one, Pm me. I have a friend with an account and I will make sure you get one.

I will still donate any proceeds to the fund along with $1 per item out of my pocket.

I repeat, for Rick's benefit:

There is NOTHING wrong with saying "Rick Olney never paid me". You never paid me. You never paid Tim. You never paid Chuck. And so many others.

here, in America, we have free speech.

Which means I can post this:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v91/docmartin72/various_032.jpg

And I can tell you to fuck off, asswipe.

And I will be getting me a shirt made.

Oh, and there are OTHER places to get shirts and such made as well.Affter reading the collection of posts,you sent me Doc he is an asswipe.

[Matt Doc Martin]

Looks like I wasn't too far off base.

Where did that come from?

[rexmundi666]

Looks like I wasn't too far off base.wow,Tom looks like you were right on that. I wonder if she realises that he's in some major trouble now.

[TomStillwell]

One of the various background checks I ran today...

[Matt Algren]

There's always Zazzle (http://www.zazzle.com)
And this (http://en.thinkexist.com/shop/customize/item.asp?where=gs1045) site. Coffee mugs $14.99.

[Gail Simone]

According to an email I just got, he allegedly owes money to a local comics shop, as well. Not an inconsiderable amount, either.

Gail

[rexmundi666]

I find it kinda odd the Newsarama has not picked up on this situation.

[Matt Doc Martin]

One of the various background checks I ran today...

Could you make a PDF of it?

[Joshua Pantalleresco]

What in sweet fucking fuck is a "scientific space fantasy?"

JLK
seriously, what is it

The correct term is "Space" Opera...I think anyways that what he was talking about. I can only be so irrational...

JP

[Matt Doc Martin]

I find it kinda odd the Newsarama has not picked up on this situation.
Give them a heads-up.

[rexmundi666]

According to an email I just got, he allegedly owes money to a local comics shop, as well. Not an inconsiderable amount, either.

GailHow much is the debt,Gail?

[EdContradictory]

I feel a little bad for that Dennis guy.

I wonder what he's thinking through all this?

[Sarah Beach]

According to an email I just got, he allegedly owes money to a local comics shop, as well. Not an inconsiderable amount, either.

Gail

Good God! I am seriously boggled by the gall of the creature.

So much for his "love" of the "hobby and business of comic books".

peanut peanut peanut

[amboy00]

According to an email I just got, he allegedly owes money to a local comics shop, as well. Not an inconsiderable amount, either.

Gail

Please encourage them to speak out on the matter. It is the collective voices that will be best heard.

[TCJohnson]

I feel bad for Mr. Waid. There is no way he could have known what he was getting himself into.

Remember Mr. Waid, I would be willing to contribute a few hundred. When you win it back you can donate it to the Hero Initiative.

[Blake Petit]

kinda misses Crossgen, maybe a little bit

Hey, I'll admit it -- I miss CrossGen a lot. Imploding business practices aside, they made some damn good comics. (Ruse was, for a time, my hands-down favorite comic book on the stands.)

[Charles RB]

Wow, what an asshole thing to say about all those people who were shafted by Alessi.

Hell yeah. Ian Edgington has said he almost lost his house because of Alessi's bastardy and only made it out because of, IIRC, 2000AD unexpectedly picking up some pitches. As he's said, why be loyal to someone buggering you financially?

[Matt Doc Martin]

How much is the debt,Gail?

I sent you a PM, Rex. Please check it.

[Kozemp]

Hey, I'll admit it -- I miss CrossGen a lot. Imploding business practices aside, they made some damn good comics. (Ruse was, for a time, my hands-down favorite comic book on the stands.)

Yeah... I primarily got into CG through those funky compilation books they put out.

Business issues aside, there were some damn good books coming out of there, and even the weaker ones but god DAMN were they pretty. I was never a major fan, but I did enjoy reading their output.

And then they Olneyed. How sad.

JLK
I made up a verb!

[Blake Petit]

I was a major fan. I really wish Disney would DO something with the properties since they bought 'em out. It's great Checkers (is that the name of the company) is going to start reprinting some of the CrossGen books. It'd be better if they made some new volumes. It'd be FANTASTIC if the guys who made the books in the first place were getting a piece of the action.

[rexmundi666]

I sent you a PM, Rex. Please check it.just did,Matt it's really me mike626.:)

[Joshua Pantalleresco]

Good God! I am seriously boggled by the gall of the creature.

So much for his "love" of the "hobby and business of comic books".

peanut peanut peanut

You can only imagine this kind of behavior in prison. Offering to pay someone in imaginary cigarettes so he can not be victimized by guys that couldn't be floored with sledgehammers. Somehow I can see him trying it.

JP

[DocAbsurd]

According to an email I just got, he allegedly owes money to a local comics shop, as well. Not an inconsiderable amount, either.

Gail

Might I be allowed to hazard a guess as to the store?

First letter 'R', last letter 'D'.

I heard many an inexplicable rant about an LCS with about as much vitriol as he's display towards any of us.




Doc 'Running a Tab' Absurd

[Joshua Pantalleresco]

I was a major fan. I really wish Disney would DO something with the properties since they bought 'em out. It's great Checkers (is that the name of the company) is going to start reprinting some of the CrossGen books. It'd be better if they made some new volumes. It'd be FANTASTIC if the guys who made the books in the first place were getting a piece of the action.

Some of their books were quite good. I enjoyed the products...a shame though Alessi didn't keep afloat.

JP

[TCJohnson]

so, what is the latest news? Have papers been servered? Has he shown up on any other boards?

[GCom]

just did,Matt it's really me mike626.:)

Mike? Hey! >waves<



With Tolerance For Outhouse Buddies...

GCom

[Sarah Beach]

Might I be allowed to hazard a guess as to the store?

First letter 'R', last letter 'D'.

I heard many an inexplicable rant about an LCS with about as much vitriol as he's display towards any of us.




Doc 'Running a Tab' Absurd

Not so inexplicable (in Olneyverse) now, is it. After all, HOW DARE THEY be owed money by him?

[Mark Waid]

I really wish we could get someone from Crossgen to comment on the veracity (or likely lack thereof) of his claims that he invented Comics in the Classroom.

Bogus. Point person on that project was the wonderful Beth Widera, the former educator who currently runs MegaCon and about whom not enough good things can be said.

[DocAbsurd]

Mattster, drop me a PM. I gotta know if my suspicions were right. I got another 'dossier of hatred' he has on a particular LCS.




Doc 'Anticipaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaation' Absurd

[Sarah Beach]

Mattster, drop me a PM. I gotta know if my suspicions were right. I got another 'dossier of hatred' he has on a particular LCS.


Gail's the one that got the email about the shop-thing.

[rexmundi666]

Mike? Hey! >waves<



With Tolerance For Outhouse Buddies...

GComGCom,what's going on and yes I read your PM.:)

[Gail Simone]

How much is the debt,Gail?

Do I know you?

Gail

[rexmundi666]

Do I know you?

GailNah,you do not Im mike626 and I was just asking out of curiosity,if I was outta line then it's my own damn fault.:o

[Blake Petit]

Hey, at least you're honest. :D

[OzBat!]

I find it kinda odd the Newsarama has not picked up on this situation.Maybe not the news side of things, but they're discussing it on the forums (http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=96941). I gave a cliff notes version for those daunted by the size of the thread!

[Draconomicon]

Bogus. Point person on that project was the wonderful Beth Widera, the former educator who currently runs MegaCon and about whom not enough good things can be said.

So, by all accounts he is just a little man who desperately wants to matter, and is ready to screw over, lie, steal and insult for that?
A "neverbeen wannabe"

[Blake Petit]

It is kinda dauntalicious...

[Matt Doc Martin]

Bogus. Point person on that project was the wonderful Beth Widera, the former educator who currently runs MegaCon and about whom not enough good things can be said.

That's the name he dropped of the person who supposedly was comping his MegaCon ticket. Does anyone know her well enough to drop a line to her for me? PM me and I will give yo my email address.

[Matt Doc Martin]

Maybe not the news side of things, but they're discussing it on the forums (http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=96941). I gave a cliff notes version for those daunted by the size of the thread!

And....another added to the stack!

[rexmundi666]

Hey, at least you're honest. :DThanx,Mr.Petit at least I have that much dignity unlike "stinky ricky"

[Matt Algren]

Nah,you do not Im mike626 and I was just asking out of curiosity,if I was outta line then it's my own damn fault.:o
Curious. Why are you posting under a different account?

[Papergirl]

And this (http://en.thinkexist.com/shop/customize/item.asp?where=gs1045) site. Coffee mugs $14.99.

Being the coffeeholic that I am, I'd pay $15 bucks for a coffee cup... Especially if the proceeds went to good use. Like, oh say, putting Olney behind bars where he belongs! :p


~Bev

[GCom]

Do I know you?

Gail

Nah,you do not Im mike626 and I was just asking out of curiosity,if I was outta line then it's my own damn fault.:o

Gail, I linked this up at a forum we both hang out at called The Outhouse. I was spreading the word, and it got some interest... hence rexmundi.




With Tolerance For All The Shouting...

GCom

[rexmundi666]

Curious. Why are you posting under a different account?Because the other two would not let me on,so rather then change one of the passwords for the upteeth time.I decided to just start fresh.So in the end this ID was borne more out of fustration then anything else.

[Gail Simone]

Gail, I linked this up at a forum we both hang out at called The Outhouse. I was spreading the word, and it got some interest... hence rexmundi.




With Tolerance For All The Shouting...

GCom


No worries, then!

Carry on, all!

Gail

[Sparvid]

I actually have a small slip of paper somewhere that certifies me sane. it's notarized and everything.

It's funny, but people never seem comforted when I show it to them.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v11/sparvid/hh2.jpg

[rexmundi666]

Gail, I linked this up at a forum we both hang out at called The Outhouse. I was spreading the word, and it got some interest... hence rexmundi.




With Tolerance For All The Shouting...

GComThank you for vouching for me GCom.:) :cool:

[GCom]

Thank you for vouching for me GCom.:) :cool:

No worries. Now pay me, and don't you dare mention it or else you are violating the NDA that I didn't send to you and you didn't sign. ;)



With Tolerance Fotr Paydays... Maybe...

GCom

[Magneto_X]

orcafresh:

General / The World We Live In / Re: GAY MARRIAGE - Any thoughts? on: Tue, August 10, 2004, 10:43:18
Heh, heh... too funny. ;D

Hmmm... "gay" marriage, as in the 29years I've spent thus far were not happy ones?

Oh! Oh! Okay, now I get it... No, I'm not an advocate for allowing homosexual and lesbian people to enjoy the "fruits" of what I've had, benefits wise, within my partnership. I know this will offend some people, and I'm sorry... but Corporate America is just looking for another reason to raise my various and many costs of living. So I'm gainst giving them any more of an edge in defining the basics of "marriage."

Plus - I see it as a door opening to allow further acceptances to be lobbied on the American system of laws and governing. People exist in society that would have perversities like beastiality and pedophilia recognized and accepted. How long before those topics get focus by narrow lideral thinking? <he politely states, as stepping behind his rotten fruit shield>

This shithead had the gall to call himself a *liberal*?!? :eek:

God, I hate this asshole!

(He just keeps making himself look more and more like a tool.)

[MacQuarrie]

This shithead had the gall to call himself a *liberal*?!? :eek:

God, I hate this asshole!

(He just keeps making himself look more and more like a tool.)

Did he call himself a liberal? I thought he was a "checklist conservative" (meaning he signs off on whatever Fox News tells him to without ever thinking a moment about it).

[rexmundi666]

No worries. Now pay me, and don't you dare mention it or else you are violating the NDA that I didn't send to you and you didn't sign. ;)



With Tolerance For Paydays... Maybe...

GComLol, I checked with my invisble lawyer and he tells me the check is in the mail:D

[mroakley]

Just a quick post this time.

#1) I'm back in comics. Not sure what project I'll take on first, but I'm back.

#2) If people could PM or E-mail information on the legal structure of tightlip along with any background checks they have made please? I'll be more than happy to paypal you a few bucks to help defray the costs.

#3) The one time I did get a check from Rick, it was in his wife's name. He said all of their finances and paperwork was in her name. Just FYI.

#4) I have a paper saying that I am not sane enough to work at Taco Bell, does that count?

[NatGertler]

Those "last few blogs" he mentions? He deleted them.Although they still seem to be in the bowels of certain search engines...

[Papergirl]

#4) I have a paper saying that I am not sane enough to work at Taco Bell, does that count?

I can trump that. I have a doctor that is more than willing to sign me into the local loony bin any time I need a "vacation"... I believe his exact words were, "You're not crazy. Not at all. You're f'ing NUTS." :p

~Bev

[Magneto_X]

Did he call himself a liberal? I thought he was a "checklist conservative" (meaning he signs off on whatever Fox News tells him to without ever thinking a moment about it).

Yes, I think he did. Wayyyyyyyyy back in the first few pages he kept saying he was liberal after someone brought up the current administration.

[NatGertler]

According to an email I just got, he allegedly owes money to a local comics shop, as well. Not an inconsiderable amount, either.Where's the county court? Nearby? Because that shop might have a lot of comics creators coming into the area who could do signings while they're in town.

[Magneto_X]

#1) I'm back in comics. Not sure what project I'll take on first, but I'm back.

Do you have a website? I'd like to see your work (if you have anything online).

#3) The one time I did get a check from Rick, it was in his wife's name. He said all of their finances and paperwork was in her name. Just FYI.


His poor wife. :(

Her world's going to turn upside down and she doesn't even know it.

[sk716]

That's interesting.

I'm not finding any Richard Olney in Mohawk, NY under that age. There's a Richard M. Olney in his 70s.

In fact, doing a state-wide search on Richard Olney doesn't give me anyone at that age. They are either much older or much younger.

All of the Domains are registered to "Rick Olney."

That doesn't really help much as once a domain is registered you can change the DNS info to whatever you want.

But I have to think either his legal name is Rick or Rick isn't short for Richard.

[Matt Doc Martin]

Just a quick post this time.


#3) The one time I did get a check from Rick, it was in his wife's name. He said all of their finances and paperwork was in her name. Just FYI.


So will his wife have to be named in any suits as well?

[Gail Simone]

This shithead had the gall to call himself a *liberal*?!? :eek:

God, I hate this asshole!

(He just keeps making himself look more and more like a tool.)

Yep. The ol' homosexuality is the gateway drug to humping monkeys dodge.

Creep. Utter creep.

Gail

[Gail Simone]

Just a quick post this time.

#1) I'm back in comics. Not sure what project I'll take on first, but I'm back.

#2) If people could PM or E-mail information on the legal structure of tightlip along with any background checks they have made please? I'll be more than happy to paypal you a few bucks to help defray the costs.

#3) The one time I did get a check from Rick, it was in his wife's name. He said all of their finances and paperwork was in her name. Just FYI.

#4) I have a paper saying that I am not sane enough to work at Taco Bell, does that count?


That sounds about right, number two, I mean, from what we've found out.

Gail

[Paul Newell]

Don't mean to blow my own horn or sound like I'm ranting... I could walk away from all this at any time, because it only seems to take from me, but I can't because to many of my group members depend on me. Besides the fcat that I really enjoy various facets of this all ... like plugging Billy's stuff whenever the opportunity presents itself.

ORCA has placed comic books (and GN's) in libraries and schools during its existence. Strangely, it was long before anyone else got recognized credit for it. Many a younger reader now in their mid-20's has learned from my group and peers. I can't help it if people are so blind they can't see...
Just out of interest, apart from Rick, has anyone ever met, heard from or seen another member of ORCA? Is ther any other info about the group, apart from what Rick has revealed?

[MacQuarrie]

All of the Domains are registered to "Rick Olney."

That doesn't really help much as once a domain is registered you can change the DNS info to whatever you want.

But I have to think either his legal name is Rick or Rick isn't short for Richard.

Aha!

I have a friend called Rick whose legal name is Fredric. Do a search on Frederick while you're at it.

[rexmundi666]

Just a quick post this time.

#1) I'm back in comics. Not sure what project I'll take on first, but I'm back.

#2) If people could PM or E-mail information on the legal structure of tightlip along with any background checks they have made please? I'll be more than happy to paypal you a few bucks to help defray the costs.

#3) The one time I did get a check from Rick, it was in his wife's name. He said all of their finances and paperwork was in her name. Just FYI.

#4) I have a paper saying that I am not sane enough to work at Taco Bell, does that count?on number #3 of your list I have the feeling that entire company is under her name.

[MacQuarrie]

Yep. The ol' homosexuality is the gateway drug to humping monkeys dodge.

Creep. Utter creep.

Gail

Can't I just go directly to the humping monkeys part?

[Papergirl]

Aha!

I have a friend called Rick whose legal name is Fredric. Do a search on Frederick while you're at it.

And Ricardo.

~Bev

[Charles RB]

Just out of interest, apart from Rick, has anyone ever met, heard from or seen another member of ORCA?

I've never seen any.

[Matt Algren]

And Ricardo.

~Bev
May as well check for Magnus Grimoire.

[Gail Simone]

Just out of interest, apart from Rick, has anyone ever met, heard from or seen another member of ORCA? Is ther any other info about the group, apart from what Rick has revealed?

Dennis Kinninger was president, and Dennis is a perfectly nice fellow.

I may have met some former members at the con, but yeah, the whole thing seems mostly hot air.

Gail

[Gail Simone]

Can't I just go directly to the humping monkeys part?

You always do! :)

Gail

[rexmundi666]

ORCA is simply a shell company he just hides that with a bunch of vage NPO talk and various other claims like being affilated with the Salvation Army.

[rexmundi666]

ORCA is simply a shell company he just hides that with a bunch of vage NPO talk and various other claims like being affilated with the Salvation Army.

[MacQuarrie]

You always do! :)

Gail

Doesn't everyone?

"Today on Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom...."

[Sarah Beach]

What a crappy thing this is going to be for his wife.

And what an excuse for him for not writing checks. "Well... I have to convince the wife to write it." Like to see him explaining a check for a few thousand dollars to her.

I mean, any woman working full time with a teenager (I think they still have one son at home, don't they?) in the house... isn't going to be too keen on the idea of writing checks to people she didn't know her husband owed money too.

This is not going to be pretty. But it will be just.

[MacQuarrie]

What a crappy thing this is going to be for his wife.

And what an excuse for him for not writing checks. "Well... I have to convince the wife to write it." Like to see him explaining a check for a few thousand dollars to her.

I mean, any woman working full time with a teenager (I think they still have one son at home, don't they?) in the house... isn't going to be too keen on the idea of writing checks to people she didn't know her husband owed money too.

This is not going to be pretty. But it will be just.

French proverb: "You must not just want what you want, you must also want everything that goes with it."

Never forget, he chose this. Over and over, he chose this. He went out of his way to choose this. He spent hours looking for more opportunities to choose this.

I got no pity on him. I feel bad for her, but that's on him. He did this to her. On purpose.

Poor lady.

[TCJohnson]

I do feel sorry for his wife...and his children.

He has to do jail time for this. I mean, when it is this much it has to go beyond civil, doesn't it?

[Papergirl]

What a crappy thing this is going to be for his wife.

And what an excuse for him for not writing checks. "Well... I have to convince the wife to write it." Like to see him explaining a check for a few thousand dollars to her.

I mean, any woman working full time with a teenager (I think they still have one son at home, don't they?) in the house... isn't going to be too keen on the idea of writing checks to people she didn't know her husband owed money too.

This is not going to be pretty. But it will be just.

Color me jaded and cynical, but... Just exactly how sure are we that the wife isn't in on it? Olney may be the "front man", but that does not necessarily mean that the wife is 100% innocent in all of this.

~Bev
Naturally suspicious.

[MacQuarrie]

I do feel sorry for his wife...and his children.

He has to do jail time for this. I mean, when it is this much it has to go beyond civil, doesn't it?

There are several possible charges that warrant jail time, I believe. I wish CBR's resident prosecutors were here.

[MacQuarrie]

Color me jaded and cynical, but... Just exactly how sure are we that the wife isn't in on it? Olney may be the "front man", but that does not necessarily mean that the wife is 100% innocent in all of this.

~Bev
Naturally suspicious.

I don't know any women that stupid. If she were in on it, she would have broken his fingers before he could type any of the inflammatory and incriminating stuff we saw all over the comicsphere.