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From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: WIZARDS
Message-ID: <2630@nsc.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 24-Apr-85 13:50:23 EST
Article-I.D.: nsc.2630
Posted: Wed Apr 24 13:50:23 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 26-Apr-85 03:05:41 EST
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Reply-To: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach)
Organization: The Courts of Chaos
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Summary: 

In article <1728@topaz.ARPA> @RUTGERS.ARPA:GOOD@ACC writes:
>
>HOWEVER, NECRON-90 (PEACE) was a fairly blatant ripoff of a character 
>created by the late Vaughn Bode.
>
>His most haunting character, Cobalt-60 (sound familiar
>already ?), was a mutant humanoid who spent most of his time hunting
>down and killing non-mutant humanoids, in an attempt to establish his
>own kind as "normal" and to punish the humans for creating a radioactive
>wasteland. Bakshi's NECRON-90 was almost identical in form to Cobalt-60,
>right down to the beast they rode into battle. The only difference to me
>was that NECRON-90 decided to stop and smell the roses, and Cobalt-60
>would have blasted them with never a second thought.
>
>It was plagarism all right, but Vaughn Bode was already dead, and I
>suppose his heirs just didn't want to fight it 

I talked to Mark Bode at a con a while back, and blatant ripoff isn't the
word. As a matter of fact, Bakshi borrowed some drafts from Vaughn Bode of
the Cobalt-60 character and then proceeded to add them to his movie. That
isn't plagarism, that's theft. Unfortunately, there isn't a lot of clearcut
law about it, and it looks like Bakshi is going to be away with it.

For those that are interested, Epic magazine has been carrying Mark Bode's
version of Cobalt-60 as a continuation of the work started by his father.
Mark (being assisted by Larry Todd, I believe) is doing a good job, but he
isn't his father, and it shows. Vaughn didn't get very far on Cobalt-60
while he was alive because he found it just too depressing. Reading Mark's
work, based on what his father did do, notes, and his own ideas, shows why.

chuq
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