Adam Patyk
Adam Patyk was James McDonough's writing partner on some of Dreamwave's Transformers comics.
History
Patyk was a longtime Transformers fan, even posting at al.toys.transformers for a while. Later, he would work for ToyFare until he was hired by Dreamwave to write the eight-issue More Than Meets The Eye limited series of profile books for Generation 1 characters together with his longtime friend James McDonough, who was writing under the pseudonym "Brad Mick" at that time. Following the MTMTE mini, Patyk would join McDonough on the third Generation 1 volume starting with issue #5. In addition, McDonough and Patyk also wrote the three-issue Armada counterpart of the More Than Meets the Eye profile books, the four-issue Micromasters mini-series and the 2004 Summer Special, and were also supposed to write a solicited Beast Wars mini-series.
In mid-2004, McDonough and Patyk were fired by Dreamwave. Their unpublished stories were supposed to be rewritten by Chris Sarracini (Generation One) and Simon Furman (Beast Wars), while McDonough and Patyk filed a lawsuit against Dreamwave for denying them payment for already published works.[1] Later, McDonough and Patyk would claim that Dreamwave had insisted that any "additional" work (such as the Micromasters mini-series) was included of their contract and thus would be exempt from extra payment.
The case would ultimately never be settled, as Dreamwave officially filed for bankruptcy in early 2005. Meanwhile, McDonough and Patyk refused to offer any kind of public closure to their planned storylines unless they were paid the money they felt they were owed by Dreamwave.[2]
Transformers comics written by Adam Patyk
- Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye (G1) #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8
- Transformers Armada: More Than Meets The Eye (Official Guidebook): #1, #2, #3
- Transformers: Generation One (vol. 3): #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10
- Transformers: Micromasters: #1, #2, #3, #4
- 20th Anniversary Transformers Summer Special: Individual stories "Welcome to the Jungle" (G1), Ultra Magnus... to the Rescue? (RiD), Ain't No Rat (Beast Wars)
- Note: Patyk shares a writing credit with James McDonough on all these stories, the latter being also credited as "Brad Mick" or "James 'Brad Mick' McDonough" in some instances.
