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Never mind the Surfer! Looks like Uatu should change his name to the
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That Surfer piece is horrible. Ebay should pay people to take it.

 
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Paulo, Zelda's apartment is a "redress" of Monica and Rachel's apartment from FRIENDS.

Ah, very cool.

And, William, you'll have to excuse me.  I'm a bit slow on the uptake at times.  :/
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What the hell happened to Silver Surfer??!

Looks like he's starting to melt.



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The Grey homestead in X-MEN was the Steven's house from BEWITCHED

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Holy cow! I never would have noticed. I must have seen the Stevens' house a thousand times as a kid too.



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The fact that non-fans actually think those Mall paintings are “comics, but done realistically” is much scarier than the fact that they’re blatant swipes.
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"Never mind the Surfer! Looks like Uatu should change his name to the
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Thanks JB....It's not often that I actually laugh out loud while I'm browsing the web all alone at night.
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Paulo: William, you'll have to excuse me.  I'm a bit slow on the uptake at times.  :/

No worries! I did'nt pick up on the Grey's/Steven's house.

 

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For some reason I think JB is working on a second career as a stand-up comic!
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…it's still embarassing to be saying all these years that Bob Kane was one of
my favorite artists.

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As a kid, he was certainly one of mine. After all, he drew my favorite
character! (At least, my favorite at the moment I happened to be reading an
issue of BATMAN…)

Imagine my chagrin at learning that so much of his work was not only
swipes, it wasn't even Bob Kane!!!
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Jonathan Stover
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Back when the Comics Journal actually covered comic books I read or wanted to read (yes, I'm the Ancient One's older brother Melvin), they ran a monthly feature called "Swipe File." Before that, they ran a couple of lengthy articles on truly egregious swiping. One was several pages on Rich Buckler, who apparently really was an Art Robot.

The other was on Keith Giffen during his massive style change of the mid-1980's. A lot of panels from the Ambush Bug minis and a few other comics were almost verbatim swipes of material from Munoz&Sampayo's Sinner series, then being published by Fantagraphics. Whoever wrote the article (Mark Burbey, maybe) did congratulate Giffen for swiping from such an uncommercial artist, which at least indicated that Giffen was trying to grow. Or something. Giffen's art style stayed in that Sinner mode for the next few years, but I don't think he did panel swipes any more. Weird Swipe Stories. indeed.

BTW, did Eclipse Comics do the "design fee for homaged covers" thing before or after Mike Carlin? I remember the three issues of Miracleman: Apocrypha homaging (with credit) the cover of Man of Steel#1, among others, and Cat Yronwode saying in a column that Eclipse was paying the original 'designers' for this. Of course, Eclipse soon went bankrupt...

Cheers, Jon
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I miss that period of Giffen’s art.
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