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John Byrne
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Joined: 11 May 2005 Posts: 133577
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Posted: 04 September 2013 at 5:26am | IP Logged | 1
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Received a royalty check from Marvel yesterday. For $0.98!!I wonder what that cost them to process?
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Simon Bowland Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 16 April 2004 Location: England Posts: 385
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Posted: 04 September 2013 at 5:41am | IP Logged | 2
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More to the point, have you decided what you'll spend it on yet?
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Roy Johnson Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 19 May 2013 Location: Canada Posts: 1323
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Posted: 04 September 2013 at 5:43am | IP Logged | 3
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Sweet, sweet retirement.
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John Byrne
Grumpy Old Guy
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Posted: 04 September 2013 at 5:44am | IP Logged | 4
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More to the point, have you decided what you'll spend it on yet?•• I'm seriously thinking about framing it!
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Robert White Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 16 April 2004 Location: United States Posts: 4560
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Posted: 04 September 2013 at 5:48am | IP Logged | 5
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It's a good thing Marvel acted when they did to avoid the massive lawsuit.
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Roy Johnson Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 19 May 2013 Location: Canada Posts: 1323
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Posted: 04 September 2013 at 5:54am | IP Logged | 6
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Sorry to go a bit off topic here, but it's 2013. Why dont' they just Direct Deposit it? Come to think, I still hear about people getting pay checks that they have to cash or deposit. Is that still a thing? I've been paid electronically for a decade.
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Robert White Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 16 April 2004 Location: United States Posts: 4560
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Posted: 04 September 2013 at 5:57am | IP Logged | 7
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I agree, particularly with the fact that JB is always having collections of his work released. I have a mental image of some guy like Milton from Office Space who's in charge of this sort of thing--lost and forgotten in some dark, dank office somewhere.
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Aaron Smith Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 06 September 2006 Location: United States Posts: 10461
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Posted: 04 September 2013 at 6:21am | IP Logged | 8
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Cool! My last royalty check was bigger than John Byrne's!
I'm sure JB's IDW checks are much bigger than anything I get from writing, but I just got to type something I never thought I'd be able to say.
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Michael Hillie Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 10 September 2012 Location: United States Posts: 21
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Posted: 04 September 2013 at 6:23am | IP Logged | 9
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Don't spend it all in one place!
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Matt Reed Byrne Robotics Security
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Joined: 16 April 2004 Posts: 36087
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Posted: 04 September 2013 at 6:36am | IP Logged | 10
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There used to be a great bar in Studio City called "Residuals"**. The walls were lined with checks from famous actors, mostly from television, of residual checks that amounted to a dollar or less. Really neat to see.
**The bar is still there. It's still called "Residuals" but it's fallen on hard times. Parsed in half (the other for another store) with a new owner, it's now a dive bar with no checks.
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Kevin Brown Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 31 May 2005 Location: United States Posts: 9007
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Posted: 04 September 2013 at 6:58am | IP Logged | 11
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You can't even buy something at the Dollar Store for that check! JB, you should be like Bruce Willis' character in the movie RED. Keep calling Marvel to re-issue it after ripping the check in half. I wonder how many times they'd re-issue it...?
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Bill Guerra Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 29 March 2012 Location: United States Posts: 1072
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Posted: 04 September 2013 at 7:31am | IP Logged | 12
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I've heard that checks from a workplace cost approx. $2 to cut...so if that is true, you can do the math.
Personally, I like to think that JB is just .99 cents short of officially reaching some milestone, so this check went a long way to making that a reality! Now to get that stubborn final penny...
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