Separated at Birth? Or lightboxing?

[roseembolism]

Courtesy of rpg.net, we have two pictures: On the right, dante from Devil May Cry, and on the left, a picture from the new Hunter supplement from White Wolf.

What's amazing is not only that that this is so utterly blatent, but that the artist obviously thought nobody would notice what he'd done with a popular video game character. Maybe he had a right to do so (I for one couldn't tell Dante of DMC from Dante of Clerks), but he underestimated the eye for detail of the readers.

Fortunately, based on the response, some artist is not going to be working for White Wolf any more. Hopefully he'll have similar trouble in the rest of the rpg hobby.

Comments

[mrteufel.livejournal.com]

You've got to be bloody quick to beat things going public in this day and age. Teh Interwebz make this sort of thing so easy to put into the public sphere.

[roseembolism.livejournal.com]

That's the good thing; the bad thing is it's probably harder than it should be to convince people used to grabbing things to make into LolCat and motivational posters that this is actually a problem.

[mrteufel.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I noticed that. :(