There will be more pictures from Simpelveld tomorrow (not sure how many, though).

Anyway, when someone I don't know s something of mine, I always try to find the time to go through their gallery to see whether they have anything interesting, ing something in return if I find something that matches my interests. Today, I saw someone like that, went to his gallery, and instead ended up reporting two of his deviations because they were blatant rip-offs of very well-known webcomics. I won't mention any more detail, it's been reported and if DA admins don't delete this, then I don't see much hope if more people complain either. I do wonder, though: Does this make me a bad person? Discuss.

Update
I just checked by that guys site again. The two pictures are still up, and he posted a new one. So what the hell, if I post it public for all to see, at least you can have a laugh as well about this overly obvious rip-off.

The offender is a certain (or in text ~Dan-Fortesque), who has a lot of mixed and, if I may speak openly, low-quality stuff. Some of his work directly steals from the very, very well-known webcomic Penny Arcade, in particular the following:

His Games Violence is basically the same as PA's Video Violence (9 December 1998). There are subtle differences, but let's face it, it's the same. Interestingly, he also produced a spanish version.

Next, his The Same Thing is almost identical to PA's Savannah Heat (18 January 2006). Some dialogue was changed, which makes it less funny. The set-up, joke, and general idea of the angles is the same, though.

Posted 4h 30 minutes ago as of this writing, his Just a conversion finally rips off DA's Has This Ever Happened To Yoo (sic) (11 April 2003). The dialogues has changed more, again for the worse, but the angles, setting and general idea are a direct match.

He mentions a friend that was partly responsible somewhere, so he might try to shift the blame to that guy. Not that I'd believe it (whoever did the lines and colors had to have seen the original comics), but it shouldn't matter, since it's still infringing stuff in his gallery.

I've reported them all but did not tell him anything. I could have noted him in private and tell him the error of his ways, but let's face it, where is the fun in that? Penny Arcade is big enough to not be worried about this, I guess, but it's still funny to see the sheer audacity here. If you feel the urge to report it yourself and/or comment on and mock this idiot, well, let's just say that I certainly won't mind.