Book 5.5: Harry Potter and the Implausibly Denying Doppelganger



The "Harry Potter comics parody under fire" story I quick-linked to Monday should have decent legs; since the story originally broke I think on this blog it didn't hit the newswires all at once.

It's a fun story, too. The studio and author J.K. Rowling pursuing action against an official publication of the US military could be highly amusing. I also think the use by PS: The Preventive Maintenance Monthly highlights an interesting area of first amendment law when it comes to parody: what exactly constitutes allowable use of character approximates to pursue an artistic goal beyond examining the thing itself, like, say, using close copies of the Peanuts characters to parody American Idol rather than using them to say something about Peanuts.

The weirdest thing is that this article brought to my attention by writer and columnist Steven Grant has a magazine representative claiming that while the names are parodied the characters don't look anything like the Potter characters, because that would be wrong. This might be worth pointing out... if it were true.

Update: I had to have Newsarama tell me, because I'm obviously drunk, that the artist working on these strips is Joe Kubert.
 
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