Here’s an interesting page some folks have been linking to, in the aftermath of the Lucasfilm “cease and desist” letter to Richard Stevens, creator of the webcomic Diesel Sweeties as well as vendor of some admittedly Star Wars-ey merch (note: images of said merch will likely be gone in a few days).
Re. the page: I’m never sure what to make of these sorts of things. Lucas (and pretty much everyone else doing work in the visual realm) either consciously or unconsciously borrows bits and pieces of things here and there, and I think it’s pretty easy to select a few striking similarities, selected from a vast pool of very very unsimilar things, and then count on people’s norirously poor understainding of statistics and probablity (any believers in the “hot hand” in basketball out there?) to make the case for swipiing. But, it’s interesting to see at any rate:
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Well, I believe Rich’s designs would be covered under “parody” and would eventually win any lawsuit. Rich doesn’t exactly have the cash to fund a legal battle though.