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==Controversy==

Much of the controversy surrounding Dreamwave suddenly appeared in its closing days, when it became apparent that the company had been neglecting to pay many of it'sits employees, not just McDonough and Patyk. When a list of the company's debts surfaced online, it became apparent that combined, they owed in excess of a million dollars. Saying a lot about their business practises and what company money was spent on, two of the very few items on the list marked "secured" were Pat and Roger's [[BMW]]s. Several artists, including Figueroa and Guidi, having previously remained genial on the matter, have recently aired their grievances with the company, which as of April 2005, include having to pay FedEx for shipment of art they never got paid for in the first place.

Detractors of the comics themselves have tried to cite the falling sales of Dreamwave's books for their financial failure, but it should be noted that the Generation 1 comic book always outsold the G.I. Joe comics published by 'rivals' [[Devil's Due]], and that company is still in existence. If nothing else, the colossal windfall from the incredible, unpredicted sales of the first miniseries, properly managed, should have been enough to sustain the company. It is clear that chronic mismanagement played the biggest role in the closure of Dreamwave.