Radical Pulls Nick Simmons Comic Over Strong Accusations Of Rampant Swiping

This is the kind of story that rips through comics like bad meat through the stomachs of those attending a church social, Nick Simmons -- son of Gene Simmons and thus I think a minor reality TV star (I assume he's the kid on the Dr. Pepper commercial with his pop) -- has been widely accused of swiping/tracing/stealing art from the international hit Bleach and passing it off on his own. This may or may not be the ground zero of those accusation; I think it is. What's more important is that by Thursday it gained enough noise and enough people doing comparisons and even overlays for Radical to suspend publication so they can look into the matter. By now we even have a masterpiece post on the matter: Rob Bricken's "Gene Simmons' Kid Nick Is a Comic Creator, a Douchebag Plagiarist, and a Moron." There are in many articles links to these two tweets from Tite Kubo himself, seemingly more baffled than outraged.

As Mr. Bricken suggests, the thought that anyone would swipe art from a comic where fans super-hugely-care about art swiping and where millions of people are reading that work is sort of jaw-dropping. I would assume Viz does nothing (seeing financial remuneration from comics companies is like picking up bread crumbs with a slotted spoon) as long as the book is out of circulation, Radical keeps this work shut down, we perhaps get some sort of equivocating statement from the artist and then there are new issues which may or may not be suddenly less effective, but who knows? The accusation and evidence and outright trial (in nerd court only, which seems to have resulted in a beheading) is story enough, it's so straight-forward and ultimately amusing/wrong. It might also fuel an outlook that celebrity comics authors are mostly up to no good.
 
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