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Kip Lewis
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One of the OMAC creative team said this isn't a traditional style
crossover with Frankenstein. You don't need to buy the other book to
follow the story. Apparently each book is told from the perspective of
the main character; both books give you more info, but it's not
required.
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Robert Kowalewski II
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So it's like the Punisher and Daredevil POV stories(issue 10 & 257 IIRC).
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 JB wrote:
It's not, at least not explicitly. But it certainly makes sense that the Creature would think of Victor Frankenstein as his "father".

Still, not a lot of love lost between the two. Each seemed to want to disown the other.
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I read OMAC but not Frankenstein, so I hope that I don't need to buy both. When I first saw the issue, I assumed "homage" but after review I'm going with "inspired by".
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Mark Haslett
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Why "inspired by"?

Why does anyone assume this is more than two artists coincidentally using the same pose?
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Knut Robert Knutsen
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There's at least one Batman cover (Infantino, I think) with Batman holding a gorilla over his head. Granted, he used two arms, but that's just as close to the Omac cover as the JB ones. Searching for covers, splashes etc. with that or similar compositions would be exhausting, but I'm fairly certain that it is not new. There are similar compositions that predate JB's covers, I'm quite sure.

JB's covers, taken as a whole, have a lot of very specific elements that are present in both versions. The Omac Cover is similar to a single element of that larger composition, with the position of the "vanquished foe" reversed, and cropped much closer.

The idea that this even rates an "inspired by" is absurd.

You might just as well label it an Interpretation of "Hercules and Anteaus", a mythical wrestling match won by Hercules lifting up his opponent. It is depicted quite often in painitings and sculpture. It's not exactly the same, but it's not too dissimilar an idea.

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Andy Mokler
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It seems unlikely that this artist wasn't in some way influenced or inspired by JB's covers.  They are iconic and even if subliminally, I think influenced the artist.  It seems too much of a coincidence, to me, that the artist a) came up with such a similar pose and b) that they had never seen either of JB's covers.

Personally, I think the decision to "mirror" the character being held in the air was done to try and make the influence/inspiration less noticeable. 

If it was just random, it seems that it would have happened more than just this one time in the last 30+ years.  How many hundreds of thousands of comic covers have been made since then?
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Andy Mokler
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The idea that this even rates an "inspired by" is absurd.

I think you're overstating.  If it was absurd, no one would have had the similarities click in their mind.  
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Andrew Burton
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I think it's a cool cover and agree with JB, it's just the artists take on an idea is all...
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Nathan Greno
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There are many examples of similar poses and layouts in comic history. Not everything is an "homage" or a "copy" or "inspired by"... there's only so many ways to draw something.
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Nathan Greno
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Homage or copy???



...or just a similar drawing!
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Nathan Greno
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I could understand you guys questioning this one...
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