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Hey... you have one thing in your favor, Chuck. YOU spelled 'Announcements' right.

I was thinking of starting a site called Image4. It's like Image but what if the seven founders never split up but then if Rob Liefeld had never been one to start with and Shadowhawk had a wicked rad red suit instead but everything is all Ultimate All-Star and Al Gore had been President rather than Bush. Sound awesome or what?!

I couldn't really say it better, Craig.

I know how hard everyone works to make things go on all three sites and being a part of that process... it's kind of a slap to my face when I see Marvel3.... when Marvel2 barely begun. I know the artists and writers are dedicated to these three sites.

That being said: Since when did you get good at writing? o.O

kidding..

Merai:

*EXALT*

I do get it.

You do know that there are other sites with this design out there. I found a couple when I was hunting for a new home to draw a few weeks ago. They are waaaaay smaller tho. One of them only had one artist (tho he was damn good).

Are you upset that he copied the design? Cause if so, you are gonna be even more upset to find out there are more sites with this design.

I think everyone is just upset because he actually had the audacity to post a link to that site here... There is an easy fix to that you know... Wipe the thread out. Problem solved.

This discussion is just helping the advertising of that site...

Do you want to really be insulted???
Read this...
stanleejr.proboards82.com/index.cgi?board=whatisthemarvel3&action=display&thread=4

And simply "erasing" a thread because some people may not like what's on there? A tad ridiculous. What happens, happens. Erasing a thread doesn't change that.

Damn well said, batkid. And might I add:

"The Marvel3 is the Marvel universe spin off of the DC2!

It's as simple as that!"

That right there is the insulting part. Right up at the top of the DC2 page, there's a link. Right there on the toolbar. "Marvel2". For this Marvel3, the creators clearly KNEW of the Marvel2- they have to have if they called it the Marvel Three and have looked at the toolbar here. And yet they blatantly ignore its existence. It's one thing to say "It's an alternative to Marvel2" and explain how, it's another to pretend it's not real, and effectively poise themselves as the "official" Marvel spin-off. And to add insult to injury;

"Don't know what the DC2 is? Visit us here at..."

Us? Us? Thus far I've seen one guy from the DC2 at the Marvel3, a guy I've never seen before. The Marvel2 has several of the Dc2 founders and longest standing members. I don't see that they have the right to call the DC2 "us" and insinuate that the Marvel3 and the DC2 have the same kind of connection as the Marvel2 and the DC2 have.

As for giving them better advertising... they had 4 members when I last checked, they have 4 now, and no-one's really expressed an interest, so I won't lose any sleep over it.

I want to note, I don't mean to come off as a jerk or anything. If these guys want to tell Marvel stories, I absolutely respect that- if they want to do it on their OWN site, that's fine as well. But would it really have been so hard to... not poise themselves as being something they aren't? Or, if they wanted that connection with the established DC2, to simply communicate with the guys here and even at the Marvel2 beforehand?

Trevor,

The fact that the site is opened up as Marvel3 is fine. I mean Free Speech and all, but from what I understand of the site owner he's expressed interest in writing certain types of writing and being turned down because the site wasn't really ready for it was what I understood about the whole thing.

Instead of being a branch of Marvel2 he's gearing it as a competitor while copying the style and administration of DC2 and subsequent sister sites. I find that to be... distasteful and with no tact. Marvel2 is less than a year old and frankly the stories are just now being written and drawn... There is no need for Marvel3 unless the continuity had become bloated and weathered... Or there was just a need to extend into another direction from Marvel2...and that doesn't exist as far as I can tell.

I see Marvel3 as a competitor and not a sister site. I don't feel as though it should be sanctioned by Charlie (though it's his prerogative if he chooses to do that.)

I only know that I wouldn't open a DC site or Marvel site if I wanted to be affiliated with the family of sites. But that's my take on it. I did open a site that was independent of those publishers, but in hopes of taking its place beside the other sites. Though I am not even close to being ready for the grand opening.... I just think that Marvel3's owner should use some tact. Which to me is lacking.

Again that's my opinion.

Actually, I don't think it's 'waaaay after it happened'. I'm fairly sure that this is pretty recent. But who am I to judge his motives? The point is, what he did was, like Zirron said, distateful and lacking in tact. What his thinking was behind it we can't say, but... *shrug* If that is it, I hope he finds a way to write the stories he wants--without insulting DC2 and her sister sites. It could be that Marvel 3 will fade out.

But, like Merai said, let's not give him a lot of publicity--if people are really upset about it, they shouldn't give Marvel 3 attention, they should get a membership at Marvel 2 and show it-- and Charlie, and everyone else-- their loyal support!

LOL. That is like some Photoshop magic right there.

At someone's suggestion of the possibility that all the artwork he's using has been ripped off from artists at DeviantART, I did some double-checking and that would indeed appear to be the case (definitely for the banner as the artist had no idea it was being used). All of those artists have been notified of the misuse of their artwork so I think we might see his site design change very soon.

Boy have I missed a lot in the last twenty four hours!

Brandon, my friend. always good to see you around. Also nice to know that I'm not the only one up at four thirty in the morning. LOL! You are also right, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but my love for this sight, as well as DC3 and Marvel2 does set my teeth on edge when I checked it out.

Probably because I've grown to really respect and admire what everyone has done here and our sister sites for the last (almost four years). Does anyone even know who this guy is?

And yes, I realize I'm probably fanning the flame by continuing the conversation, but I came late to the party.

At the same time, it's very nice of him to supply links to the superior websites. ;D

Yes, that was catty, but it's four thirty in the morning.

They stole my words.

I guess the artists have contacted them. Suddenly that banner got really popular there.

I did PM him...