My initial wording was admittedly designed to garner a reaction (a habit from college that works, to which you can attest) but yes, that is pretty much in the realm of what I was getting at. It did, in fact, piss me off but that's pretty easy.

From what little I understand of copyright law, it really all depends on how much money you have and how angry you are but I am also in no way saying this is copyright infringement, rather that I think it's a cynical media attention grab using someone else's art style and that I feel we shouldn't be giving it praise.

I should add that I am by no means saying that he has a legal basis for copyright infringement here, just that I don't think he would appreciate someone doing shot for shot remakes of his art with Star Wars plugged into it and neither do I.

If you can't see who is intended to be whom in that picture, I don't feel that this conversation is going to a productive place and would rather cease interacting with you.

I know, but I'm pretty sure that "the express and unwavering wish of the creator that any use of Calvin and Hobbes was limited to work he’d created and in very specific formats," refers to more than just copyrighted material in that I can't find a clearer legalese way of saying "Don't copy my art".I should add that I…

As that other guy pointed out, (he has better google skills I suppose) Watterson has gone after people in the past about this sort of thing but here's a better quote: "We’re protective of the copyright for a variety of reasons, most importantly it is the express and unwavering wish of the creator that any use of…

Not explicitly, no, but in an interview he sums up my position better than I could: "For starters, I clearly miscalculated how popular it would be to show Calvin urinating on a Ford logo. . . . Actually, I wasn't against all merchandising when I started the strip, but each product I considered seemed to violate the…

I feel like combining two popular things to create media attention, even if he isn't using it to make money initially, is still using someone else's art to make a profit even if that profit isn't explicitly monetary. My biggest gripe with is that Watterson has been very explicit about his dislike of this sort of…

Profit can be gained through attention, that's like the basis of marketing.

It would be, if Watterson hadn't asked time and time again for people NOT to do stuff like this and to be frank I don't see what is at all artful about cramming two popular things together so you can be popular on instagram, the place where two popular things get crammed together constantly.

Quit bastardizing and commercializing Bill Watterson's art! Look, I know you want to start an etsy account and print this on a mug and give it to your high school science teacher as a retirement gift but it's really just a crass, cynical exploitation of Bill Watterson's art with a bit of Star Wars fucked into it to…

I watched Antichrist for the first and last time when I was 18, and that scene fucking scarred me. I wouldn't call it an enjoyable movie, but it definitely left an impact. Melancholia, on the other (tick-free) hand was an amazing movie and one of the best takes on depression I've ever seen in movies.

As much as I love the Venture Brothers, I would be happy with an entire show/season devoted to Dr. Orpheus and crew.

I'm really hoping for some Hank/Dean-centric episodes this season, mostly to see what comes of Hank's delusional confidence with women now that he has money.

I didn't have my glasses on when I saw the title for this, so I read it as "simpletons" and I was like "Well, yeah, and?"

Hank has always been off the deep end, money just gave his crazy funding.

I'm really stoked to see this, I feel like Sony could have actually made something decent. I don't really understand what else you could look for in a Deadpool movie, Deadpool was always a silly, violent joke.

I had the pleasure of watching it when I was very ill, very poor, and very alone during a snow storm. I have never empathized with a character in a movie that much, and probably never will again.

In spite of all the nasty religious nonsense, I still love them, I just wish there would come a time in my life when they shut the fuck up about Jesus. Atheists have been labelled as arrogant, but you know what I think is fucking arrogant? Believing that a god made the entire universe for the sake of humanity, and…

Ah, yeah, I was in a Christian homeschooling program from middle school up until junior year of high school and I was forced to go to church until I was 15, when I got a job and asked my boss to put me on Sundays. Our whole house is still filled with religious iconography, and they have weekly church get-togethers at…