homage, or plagarizm?

[ctc]

Hmmmm....

Just saw this:

bleachness: Gene Simmons' Son Plagiarizing Bleach?

Don C.

[samurainoir]

Hmmmm....

Just saw this:

bleachness: Gene Simmons' Son Plagiarizing Bleach?

Don C.

I've been following the situation with great fascination, and to me, it's much less the question of whether it's plagiarism or not (even the Bleach creator himself shrugged off the question of whether he was being ripped off or "homaged", and appeared much more fascinated with the fact that "Gene's Simmons' Son is a Manga-Ka!?"), but the level of reaction to the controversy.

What does it say that the dusty corners of Superhero fandom just kind of shrug off this week's Greg Land, David Mack, and Rob Liefeld's swipes, but teens and twenty somethings from the manga/anime world storm the internet in giant virtual lynch mobs armed with digital iphone shaped torches and blackberry pitchforks chasing reality TV star Nick Simmons to the Windmill of Awesome-Spin?

It just shows there is much passionate and youthful energy and enthusiasm out there for comics, and they really could care less whether or not Barry or Wally is the Flash, but will recognize a panel from Deathnote in the span of a heartbeat and a twitter.

[EMCE Hammer]

I agree that it's very interesting. I'm feeling like an old school nerd now.

[ctc]

>the dusty corners of Superhero fandom just kind of shrug off this week's Greg Land, David Mack, and Rob Liefeld's swipes, but teens and twenty somethings from the manga/anime world storm the internet in giant virtual lynch mobs armed with digital iphone shaped torches and blackberry pitchforks chasing reality TV star Nick Simmons to the Windmill of Awesome-Spin?

HAW! Good point. I think part of it comes from the animosity between the two types of fans. Just as the "mainstream" Western fans hate the Japanese stuff, so too do a lot of Japanese fans hate the Western comics. And I think a lot of the younger Japanese fans are more genuine fans: since the 80's our books have been pushed to the "designer" comic kind of thing, with folks buying stuff because of who did it, or the character name more than because they actually enjoy it. Inertia smooths over a lot of the concerns. But the young Japanese fans get more into the book, characters and story itself.... they feel more for the characters than we do because it's not seen in a nuts and bolts/who's writing it this month/Bob Schmoe is an exellent writer kind of way.

Don C.