Site Accuses DHC WotW Comic Book

A few CR readers have e-mailed me a link to this site, probably because it was posted at the blog maintained by the comics news site Newsarama, although I can't be totally certain. The site in question compares a bunch of still shots from a film version of War of the Worlds to a Dark Horse comic book version of same, arguing that the comic displays too many similarities in design, composition and staging for there not to have been some active appropriation of these elements. I have no idea if this is true, and I'm not totally convinced by the site; some of the assertions seem strained. In fact, the clearest appropriation seems to me the "ooolaa" noise from that rock opera version of HG Wells' story that came out in the 1970s.

Where I get confused is what purpose such a site serves in the first place. The site talks about putting Dark Horse on legal notice in advance of a pending lawsuit. I have no idea what that means; I picture lawyers leaning out of '64 Dodge yelling insults at Mike Richardson as he climbs into his sportscar on the Dark Horse parking lot, or sending planes with message banners over the Dark Horse picnic. But all that aside, why not just sue? There's no court of public opinion aspect to any of this. I can't imagine there's a mass of people out there thinking the movie ripped off some comic -- I can't imagine there are many people who are even aware of both iterations on the old story. I'm even more confused by this than I am by the Martians' loyalty to tripod technology.
 
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