This looks familiar...New x-men sentinel

Pierrot Le Fou · Post by **Pierrot Le Fou** » Tue Sep 16, 2003 2:19 pm

Before you post something you might want to know exactly what it is.
The picture in question is from Mystique #4, published in August. The Sentinel itself is meant to be an obsolete Soviet model [hence the star and utter lack of resemblance to the US model] purchased on the black market by the Cuban government.

And as for the resemblance with the EVAs, it's pretty slight. And to pin it on Marvel is just stupid. I seriously doubt that Joe Quesada would tell anyone to rip off anime. In case you haven't noticed, Marvel actually hires real live manga artists to work for them. It has nothing to do with anyone other than the artist that drew it, in this case Jorge Lucas.

Kracus · Post by **Kracus** » Tue Sep 16, 2003 2:40 pm

Pierrot Le Fou wrote:Before you post something you might want to know exactly what it is.
The picture in question is from Mystique #4, published in August. The Sentinel itself is meant to be an obsolete Soviet model [hence the star and utter lack of resemblance to the US model] purchased on the black market by the Cuban government.

And as for the resemblance with the EVAs, it's pretty slight. And to pin it on Marvel is just stupid. I seriously doubt that Joe Quesada would tell anyone to rip off anime. In case you haven't noticed, Marvel actually hires real live manga artists to work for them. It has nothing to do with anyone other than the artist that drew it, in this case Jorge Lucas.

Thank you, at least someone around here has some sense. Not just mouthin off.

Yes it does look like an Eva, however Sentinels have been a design and character for what... 20+ years? Don't compare them to Evas.

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Tue Sep 16, 2003 2:46 pm

That still doesn't convince me. It looks just too darn much like an Eva.

So, either it's a twisted coincidence or someone's copying someone off (don't know who). I would disregard a general resemblance, but there are just some very concrete details that are too alike...

Pierrot Le Fou · Post by **Pierrot Le Fou** » Tue Sep 16, 2003 2:47 pm

I dunno what the big deal is, you can't even say it looks like a specific one. The face may be similar to EVA 01 but so what? Does it have a big fucking horn in its head? Is it purple? Does it really look anything like an EVA? No.

dwchang · Post by **dwchang** » Tue Sep 16, 2003 4:09 pm

Nappy,

Shameless. Totally stolen from mine and EK's journals

.

The least you could do is say "from dwchang."

I kid

Propyro · Post by **Propyro** » Tue Sep 16, 2003 4:39 pm

Nappy wrote:Also the collar area looks like the nuclear powered robot

You mean Jet Alone ... or i think it was called jet alone ... whatever JA somethign ... i'd have liked to see one of those things try to fight an angel ... i got $5 on the angel winning in the first 15 seconds.

by the way ... when linking from geocities ... you have to change the file extensions to .txt for remote linking to work.

/|\

Nappy · Post by **Nappy** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 4:43 pm

dwchang wrote:Nappy,

Shameless. Totally stolen from mine and EK's journals :-P.

The least you could do is say "from dwchang." :(

I kid :-P

you want me to link to your LJ? You might get a million anonymous comments saying mahout :P

dwchang · Post by **dwchang** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 4:45 pm

Nappy wrote:
dwchang wrote:Nappy,

Shameless. Totally stolen from mine and EK's journals .

The least you could do is say "from dwchang."

I kid
you want me to link to your LJ? You might get a million anonymous comments saying mahout

Let's pass on that...news-stealing, rooming with cute girl whorebox

UncleMilo · Post by **UncleMilo** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 5:13 pm

Kracus wrote:
Pierrot Le Fou wrote:Before you post something you might want to know exactly what it is.
The picture in question is from Mystique #4, published in August. The Sentinel itself is meant to be an obsolete Soviet model [hence the star and utter lack of resemblance to the US model] purchased on the black market by the Cuban government.

And as for the resemblance with the EVAs, it's pretty slight. And to pin it on Marvel is just stupid. I seriously doubt that Joe Quesada would tell anyone to rip off anime. In case you haven't noticed, Marvel actually hires real live manga artists to work for them. It has nothing to do with anyone other than the artist that drew it, in this case Jorge Lucas.
Thank you, at least someone around here has some sense. Not just mouthin off.

Yes it does look like an Eva, however Sentinels have been a design and character for what... 20+ years? Don't compare them to Evas.

I don't understand the last line of your comment.

Yes, the Sentinel has been around for a long time. However, just because they have doesn't change the fact that the drawing of THAT Sentinel in the Mystique comic book is a BLATANT rip off of the EVA unit. I certainly agree, however, that Marvel as a company probably was only ignorant of the design steal... but the artist, on the other hand, deserves a sound smackin'.

Thankfully, X-Men Evolution is staying somewhat loyal to the Kirby-esque design of the original Sentinel. I am very interested what the Sentinels in the Live X-Men movies will look like.

-Uncle Milo

angelx03 · Post by **angelx03** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 5:21 pm

UncleMilo wrote: Thankfully, X-Men Evolution is staying somewhat loyal to the Kirby-esque design of the original Sentinel. I am very interested what the Sentinels in the Live X-Men movies will look like.

-Uncle Milo

Kirby-esque design of the original Sentinel? Do explain that part to me since I'm curious about what you said.