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    johnheffernan has commented on a review: Driver for the Dead #1
    Oct 13, 2010 at 10:12am

    Hey Everybody, John Heffernan here. Sorry to keep dragging this out but I don't appreciate allegations of swiping or plagiarism when none occurred, so please allow me to clarify things and set the record straight. Here is the sequence of events re: the creation of Driver For The Dead exactly as it happened: I first met Barry Levine when he was working for Dark Horse in the early 2000s. Barry then left Dark Horse to start his own label called Blatant Entertainment, which would ultimately become Radical Publishing. I brought the idea for Driver For The Dead to Barry and Blatant (which would soon become Radical) in 2005. Barry liked the idea but the money/IP deal wasn't there so the project didn't happen. Later, in 2009, I pitched the idea to a movie producer named Josh McLaughlin at The Mark Gordon Company, a film production company in Hollywood. Josh liked the idea as well but knew I wanted to do it as a comic, so he suggested we bring it back to Barry and Radical, which by then did indeed have a reputation for publishing great properties that would make great movies. This time the money/IP deal was right, and with Josh and Mark Gordon attached as producers, the project went forward. At no time during this long process did I ever see or was ever even aware of the Funhouse Of Horror series or its "Murphy's Law" issue. And I think anyone who has read both books will agree that Driver For The Dead and Murphy's Law have very little in common artistically, conceptually, or thematically, besides the fact that the main characters in both books drive hearses. Anyway, that's the long boring truth of it all. I encourage everyone to pick up Driver For The Dead and see for themselves; issue #2 is on sale now! And thanks for your support.

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    johnheffernan has commented on a review: Driver for the Dead #1
    Aug 9, 2010 at 1:39am

    Hey Everybody, John Heffernan here. Thanks to everyone who has picked up Driver For The Dead, hope you enjoyed the read. As regards the allegations of swiping, I can tell you that in this case it just didn't happen. I came up with the idea for Driver after reading a newspaper article about a hearse driver who was carjacked and brought it to Radical way back in 2005, long before Murphy's Law was published, and I can document this. It took a while to go from conception to creation, but there it is. I've never read Murphy's Law, and although it looks interesting, I didn't even know it existed until reading about it here in the Swipe File. Any similarities in the storyline are purely coincidental. As to the similarity of the images above, all I can say is there's only so many ways to draw a hearse. And more importantly, Leonardo Manco doesn't need to swipe. He's too good. I don't know anything about Rudy Vasquez or when he met with Radical; I've never met with or spoke to the guy. I'm aware of the alleged plagiarism surrounding Radical's book Incarnate, and it was unfortunate, and I don't endorse or support swiping either, believe me. But in this case I can categorically deny that anything like that went down. Thanks and please give the book a try.

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