Over at this site I’ve been reading about Erik Larsen complaining and
basically trying to say Marvel swiped his Obama idea.

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Reading both sides, and while Erik raises some good points, I think
Marvel is in the right.

First off I think Erik has a personal issue with Marvel, and therefore
has a skewered viewpoint. So right off the bat he is not looking at
the situation with a fair view.

As a Publisher of Image Comics, he also has an agenda. Maybe his complaining is in part publicity, as well as trying to stir the pot just for the sake of it.

His complaint of Spidey using a fist bump Spidey editor Stephen Wacker called it on the spot and said they took it, from where Erik took it. It’s what Obama really does.

Erik complaining of Obama on the Spidey cover, because he got Dragon on his cover.

Well as Steve said no Duh, it’s only natural to put the guy on the cover to sell more issues. Does not mean the idea was taken.

When all is said though I think Erik is just annoyed at all the hype Spider-Man got with Obama, whereas his creation, the Dragon got just about no media hype at all.

But it’s only fair, the mainstream only knows a few superheroes. And does not care about the rest.

See my earlier post about disagreeing about using politics in superhero comics.

But with that said, and talking about this issue between Erik and complaining about Marvel. I really think he has no case. Maybe he feels he thought of the idea first. But even if that was the case, it does not mean that independently someone else could not think of the same idea.