Rather than fight Warner, Willingham has embarked on what nostr:npub1eyszugs46q4ngd8tgeysnkwve20n9wewj42lac9cp7s2jrk52u2qce6x02 calls an act of "absolute table-flip badassery" - he has announced that *Fables* will hereafter be in the public domain, available for anyone to adapt commercially, in works that compete with whatever DC might be offering.
Now, this is *huge*, and it's also *shrewd*.
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It's the kind of thing that will bring lots of attention on Warner's fraudulent dealings with its creative workforce, at a moment where the company is losing a public relations battle to the workers picketing in front of its gates. It constitutes a poison pill that is eminently satisfying to contemplate. It's delicious.
But it's also *muddy*. Willingham has since clarified that his public domain dedication means that the public can reproduce the existing comics.
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