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

[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 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:

[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 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!