Quote from: 426Buddy on Sep 17, 2021, 02:17:44 AM
Ridgetop discovered some tracing in couple DH series I believe. AvP Thicker than Blood and Alien the original screenplay if I'm remembering correctly.
Not to the same extent as Larroca though, he's not even trying to hide it. He can't even be bothered to put the figures into a cool pose before tracing them.
Yeah I did find some stuff in the later Dark Horse series. The first time I noticed more heavily referenced toys was in the Fire & Stone Aliens run, while I wasn't fond of those static poses then either, at least Patric Reynolds implemented it much more effectively than Larroca does. And at least he took his own photos of the toys for reference, and at least he understood perspective and everything didn't look overly flat.
I do find this sort of thing having different levels of offense though, with Land (stealing from fellow comic artists seeking work themselves) being the worst kind of offender. With things like AvP: Thicker than Blood and to a much greater extent Alien: The Original Screenplay, ripping backgrounds and concept art, I suppose it's fair game because that work is official material and was work for hire, but the same could be said of what Land did. It's still lazy and should be criticized. This is also part of a wider issue of crushing deadlines in the industry as well.
Also of note with Larroca, there are a number of things ripped into the current running comic that are not sourced from official Alien material, so there could be some actual copyright violation going on.