"But I disagree on the notion of a company or team being bound at the hip
at all times. When a sports team wins the Superbowl all the credit does
not go to one team member. And when a team member gets drunk and
stabs a guy--the whole team doesn't get blamed for the incident. It's
really not that complicated. You can have both and in many ways it makes
sense to have both."
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With you all being owners of the same company it seems only natural that you would be bound together. Being part of a team isn't the same as being the owner of the team.

If you'll allow me a slight drift. As a small business owner I have a corporation. That way I can't be sued only my company. But if I had partners in that company they too would be part of that lawsuit.

For instance. How do you protect the individual owners from lawsuit of the whole company? I won't bring up anything specific. But if I worked on something for Marvel and it resulted in a lawsuit, Marvel would be the company sued. I might be named in the suit but the company would take the blame for publishing it. How does Image not get sued over something a partner might have done under the companies umbrella? 

I'm not asking for sorid details, but that is something that I've always wondered about. Image is a company yet it doesn't seem to be effected by what  the owners do in a legal sense. I hope I'm being clear.

Frankly, the in-fighting between lightweights is cluttering up an otherwise interesting thread.

QUOTE: Now correct me if I'm wrong, but X-Force was nothing more then the New Mutants with a new name.

Technically true, but by the time of the restart most of the established New Mutants were gone and 4/7 of the characters in X-Force were Liefeld's.  Whether that justifies his claim or not is up to you.