An open letter to Todd McFarlane
Mr. McFarlane it has been over a week since I sent you folks at McFarlane Toys a message through your “Contact Us” on your Spawn.com website. I have yet to receive a reply. Other folks who expressed their concerns through your contact page, about you choosing to include a Billy the Kid action figure in your “Faces of Madness” line of toys, have not yet received a reply to their messages to you. Roscoe Moran is one of those folks. I feel he expressed his thoughts on the subject better than I did. Certainly you or someone from your company should follow through with replies.
As Webmaster for the Billy the kid Outlaw Gang (BTKOG) I want to give you the benefit of the doubt and just figure these messages have not been forwarded to you. I certainly know how difficult it is to keep up with e-mail these days. My position like the rest of the BTKOG board of directors is voluntary and therefore unpaid. Since you have 20 different departments at Spawn.com that can be reached through “Contact Us”, it’s a good chance at least some of these folks are on the payroll. Someone isn’t doing his or her job! The instructions for your “Contact Us” recommended that a message only be sent to one department, and if the wrong department was reached the message would then be forwarded to the correct one. Since apparently this has not happened, I will send this post to all 20 Spawn.com departments. Hopefully this time you get this message forwarded to you. Please do not confuse this 2nd attempt to communicate with you as harassment. I really would like to know your rationale on how Billy the Kid and Jack the Ripper belong in the same category.
Mr. McFarlane,
I learned from your on-line
bio that you were born in Canada. You have decided to make your home and
raise your family in the American Southwest. Certainly you should understand
that folks from around the world visit this area for its natural beauty and
among other good reasons to visit the area, its connection to the "Wild
West" also attracts a fair amount of tourists.
To
bad you missed an opportunity to create a series of action figures that centered
on the “Wild West”, and include Billy the Kid where he belongs. Maybe it
isn’t too late! Just think how much more of a collectors item your Billy the
Kid action figure would become if it was the first to graduate from one category
to another. The bio you folks have included with Billy’s action figure, when
compared to all the other folks in the “Face of Madness” would make Billy a
weak candidate for that category.
All in all, in the scheme of things that are bothersome in the world today, this is small bananas! But the mission statement for the Billy the Kid Outlaw Gang is to “Preserve, Promote, and Protect, Billy the Kid/Pat Garrett History in New Mexico”. It is our goal to do what’s best for New Mexico and any misrepresentation of Billy the kid is very likely to catch our attention. If Billy the Kid were truly a "Face of Madness", I doubt the current Governor of New Mexico, Bill Richardson, would even consider granting the pardon Billy was promised so many years ago. Of course all this discussion (one sided until you respond) would be moot had Billy the Kid received his pardon over 123 years ago.
Hope to hear from you soon,
Joe
Micalizzi
Webmaster
http://www.BTKOG.com
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