Hey, that's not your comic!

[naruki_oni]

Every once in a while when I am reading my daily bunch of comics, I get the deja vu feeling that I've already read one before. At times like those, I wonder to myself if the authors are deliberately plagiarizing or if they, like me, just have bad memories and forget that they didn't come up with the idea themselves.

Since most of the comics I read are pretty indistinguishable from each other, I also wonder if I am not just suffering from deja vu instead of actually remembering a different comic. I can certainly never remember the name of the supposed original, and searching my stack for the past few days invariably turns up no proof.

Until today, that is.

Oddly enough, the thief is someone who probably gets more circulation than his victim. Well, that seems odd to me, since you'd expect the funnier, more remarkable comic to be less likely to steal. But perhaps the rest of you are more cynical and experienced in these things than I am (I'm looking at you, BB2).

Without further ado, I present Wiley Miller's Non Sequitur and Dave Blazek's Loose Parts.





In case you were wondering, the Non Sequitur came out June 29, and the Loose Parts came out June 25.

Comments

Pardon me for interrupting...

[uf-peace-man.livejournal.com]

But I just received an e-mail. From Naruki@ufie.org. Which I thought a bit strange. I mean, do you still keep an e-mail address after a lifetime ban? I wasn't sure.

And the name given for that e-mail address was Naruki Troll. Now, I know that Naruki is the best known troll - and very good at it. But others are able to troll as well.

I have added you to my friends list. I haven't seen anything allowing personal messages here - but then, I just started using LJ.

That was me.

[naruki-oni.livejournal.com]

And I meant what I said. From what I've seen, I like your style. Glad you showed up. :-)

I mostly use that addy when I get an account with somewhere that might spam me later. I got a hilarious one back in September:

Subject: UserFriendly.Org Membership
Date: Sat 09/16/06 04:05 PM

Hi,
We have noticed that your account has expired or is about to expire.

Did you know that we have brought back (with new art too!) t-shirts, hats and mugs (along with jackets for Dark Regents) as spiffs?

Anyway, as the the window on our Summer 2006 Membership Drive is about to close, we wanted to give you a 'heads up' and the opportunity to check out the new schwag and renew or upgrade your Membership.

Details (you'll need to be logged in) here:
http://ars.userfriendly.org/users/choosesponsorlevel.cgi

Thanks for your support!

JD & David
UserFriendly.Org

PS: If you've recently renewed, THANKS and please disregard this message (Stef compiled the mail blast...)

I must say I was really tempted, except for that whole being unable to log in due to faulty moderator judgement thing. Heh. It was so funny I couldn't stand to delete it.

I'm a bit busy studying stuff, so I don't post much anymore. But I do read my friends' list whenever I get a chance and respond when I can.

If you need to post something without the FYOS or other restrictions, feel free to use UFieLand. I think it's even allowed to link from UF, but I fear I am not up on the latest restrictions anymore.

Well, hope you like this place and visit often.