Well, you had me on this one. From the header, I thought it was coming from one of those "respected sources in the industry" not from a guy who looks like he spends too much time in his mom's basement.... I know mean but ... I m surprised he didn't say let's do a reboot of Cheers but have it set in the Blue Whale.

Was this guy intoxicated?

Stan Laurel

Looking back, ( can't believe it's been over 26 years since all this happened ... let alone nearly 28 years since our club got started eesh!) I wish I had probed more with the Dr. about what exactly went down. But didn't think it was my place to be that nosey. My impression was that he regretted investing in the first place and when he sold me the posters, he just wanted to be done with it and get them them out of his house where they were taking up space. Not looking to make Campiti a bad guy here, but there is no way he could have not known the situation. Perhaps he gave up the publisher title and day to day operations ( like writing checks ...lol), he was still involved with the company. He didn't file for bankruptcy which probably wouldn't have changed things but by bailing he definitely was looking to protect himself from liability judgements. We were all sorry that efforts to put out an independent comic ended up not working out. The overall quality of the comics was excellent ( certainly no Gold Keys here.)  My disappointment was from after such an outstanding beginning to a real letdown in storyline in book 2 and a BIG letdown in artwork in book 3. As much as I love DS, I just didn't care about the comics anymore. You certainly documented MB all the contradictions and inaccuracies of his press releases and comments to Marcy over time. Looking back, it looks like he had good intentions for DS, just that Innovation was underfunded from the get go and not able to deliver on everything. The posters really do look amazing.

When I looked at it sideways, I was like wow .... that IS a Herculoid ....lol.

C: Is that how they taught you to do it in the founding home? ... Here, move over and let me show you how.

Actually, I have seen Blue Whale shower curtains.

I don't think I would fixate too much on the timing. Campiti was co founder of Innovation and raised the money to get it off the ground. He left in Aug 93 and the company crashed in Feb 94. Plus, after he left he was selling the original comic art from Innovation thru his Glasshouse Graphics company. So it isn't like he just walked away to move on to other opportunities ...there were a lot of investors and creditors (probably including the artists themselves) who got stiffed and he was probably looking to limit personal liability. As for the choice of artists, the public version is they were giving artists from Brazil opportunities but I think the truer version is economics.