Profile for Tom Brazelton - I'm starting to get paranoid

Tom Brazelton is a 34.43 year old boy, has been a member since September 27, 2003, has scored 1,139 submissions, giving an average score of 2.22, helping 3 designs get printed.

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AIM: tombrazelton

Aug 20 '07 by Tom Brazelton
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I'm starting to get paranoid

about Quack Attack

Brian,

I don't mean to start any trouble with you and I'm certainly not implicating you in anything, but I'm starting to get a little paranoid.

I thought it was pretty weird when a design called "Spoilt" showed up on Threadless a few months ago using some of the same ideas as a shirt I designed a couple years ago called "Spoiler."

Now I come across Quack Attack and it bears a striking resemblance to a punchline of a comic I did in November, 2003!

Like, I said - I'm not suggesting anything. I just think it's crazy that there are as many like-minded people out there.

Either that, or I'm not as clever as I give myself credit for!

Anyway, I thought it would be fun to point out! For what it's worth, I really like your design treatment. I'm kicking myself that I didn't think of it first!

deathcabfortom on Aug 20 '07 at 1:58pm

Did you invent Jesus?

squintygirl on Aug 20 '07 at 2:00pm

The idea is similiar, but the style and execution are completely different. The same Good idea strikes different people all time.

roboroller on Aug 20 '07 at 4:08pm

hey tom! nice to see you dropping in. big Theater Hopper fan

tymothy on Aug 20 '07 at 4:18pm

It's sort of close, but you know, ten million nerds generating content will independently arrive at a good number of the same ideas.

tymothy on Aug 20 '07 at 4:20pm

Like for instance "Quack Attack" was the title of some segment on Darkwing Duck...a 90s cartoon.

evrfixedmark on Aug 20 '07 at 11:04pm

haha the comic was really cool! so is the tee, though! this shirt reminds me very much of last week's reprint defend the kingdom. same sort of concept but both are great designs, and i got a decent laugh out of each.

JunkStuff on Aug 22 '07 at 10:28am

The first one I can see, but the duck gag's been around awhile. Kids Next Door did a similar skit in one of their episodes and they probably got the idea from somewhere else. Don't let it get to you, sometimes originality lies in the exicution not the idea.

2 days later

Bob Loblaw on Aug 24 '07 at 12:15pm

that is kinda suspect...but then again, calculus was invented independently and simultaneously by two different people...

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