Post originally by Jason Carpenter at 2004-05-26 21:01:42
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Awesome Entertainment did not go belly up because of poor accounting but because the primary source of fund, Jon Peters I believe, withdrew from Awesome Entertainment and took his money with him because he was expecting sales in the millions, which NO ONE had at the time. From there Rob ran the company out of pocket and even though he is a millionaire, it takes more than millions to run a successful comic book company, just ask Mark Allessi. For a late 90s company Awesome Ent. did quite well, better than the current healthier industry company Crossgen.

Awesome Ent. was hitting a stride when Peters withdrew his support but he also tried very hard to take the characters from ROb Liefeld, characters Rob created. Eventually Rob won the case but the damage was done.

It is speculation like yours that creates the myths that surround people like Rob and John Byrne.

Jason