What? What the fuck? On the one hand, this is the most hilarious shit since the multiple Batman: Odyssey posts with the photoshopped crystals, on the other, I'm wondering exactly why DC haven't sued the guy and/or how this is even being published.
It's clearly parody, and that's legal under the law. Since the series appears to be an anthology, and the Zatana ripoff is only a part of that, they aren't going to make a big stink over it.
Aside from the fact that they probably would lose (as his_spiffnesss mentioned), the likely dual PR hit of suing a self-published author, and one who's known to be mentally ill probably factored in as well. (Especially since he earned a lot of good will with very good work before his mental state broke down.)
It's kind of funny, in a profoundly sad sort of way, that Sim is parodying Frank Miller here, because he's pretty much in Miller's class now with regards to full-time self-parody.
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Date: 2012-02-22 10:33 am (UTC)Anyways, loving the art^^
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Date: 2012-02-23 05:35 am (UTC)What with the "everyone (including his domineering wife who is doubtless a Feminist) says he is mentally ill but he is actually a genius!" part.*
Perhaps Dave Sim's real life is a parody of Alex Raymond's!
*Not that you can't be both, obviously.
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Date: 2012-02-24 05:10 pm (UTC)Funnily enough, I didn't bother to give the thing a second read through. Uh... nice art though?
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Date: 2012-02-25 03:09 am (UTC)All I'm getting out of this is "cute bunny is cute" and "I am somewhat concerned for the comic's creator".
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