Christomir Rackov asked Michael J. Sullivan:

Are you going to sue Dabel Brothers for what they did with the Kickstarter for the Death of Dulgath graphic novel (i.e. - embezzling people's money, and besmirching your good name in the process)?? Most of us understand it is exactly 0% your fault, but there will always be naive people, who won't; and that's just not fair to you, as you have always been so incredibly loyal to your readers. I think you should sue them.

Michael J. Sullivan You can't sue a company that no longer exists. FWIW - I don't think they had nefarious intentions. In other words, I don't think they set out to, as you put it "embezzle people's money." I think what happened is they bit off more than they could chew and got in over their heads. They had decent intentions and the stuff I saw was well executed -but graphic novels are BIG projects and at the end of the day, they went out of business before they got the project finished.

I don't think my name is besmirched - I think everyone understands that if I had collected the Kickstarter money I would have refunded it, but I can't refund what I didn't receive -- and I do think they refunded a lot of the orders.

Don't get me wrong. I feel terrible for what happened, and while I won't make any public announcements, I do have another publishing company interested in the project and instead of getting an advance, I've asked them to use those funds to "make whole" the people from the prior Kickstarter instead. I basically won't take a cent of profit until the prior Kickstarter people get what they ordered. But...until that project is 100% created and availalable for shipping I don't want to make any promises about deliverables. But it does at least let you know what we are trying to do.

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