Hmm. In the first one it appears she has found either a lightsaber or one of the Sonic Screwdriver variants.
I don't see that much similarity. Girl with glasses in steampunk world. Meganekko are big; you want a smart girl hero, nothing says smart girl like glasses. You want main character general appeal, blonde still seems to sell more than the others.
And even if you start from the same basic premise, two authors will go in different directions. Often a writer will end up doing something that other people did, or vice versa, without knowing about it, and that's just the way it is. I certainly won't change what *I* write just because someone else happens to be writing, or have written, something similar. I had some people asking me if I was trying to steal from/riff on "Underworld" or "World of Darkness" when I did Digital Knight; I had to somewhat gently point out to them that much of DK was written before V:TM ever came out, let alone "Underworld".
And the Foglio's art STYLE is THE signature. I didn't have any "Agatha" vibes coming from this girl, because, well, it's a completely different art style. "Look and Feel" doesn't come from "blonde girl with glasses", it comes from the exuberant drawing style, the lush figures (in a world where ultra-slender figures are the norm, even in comics), the rich detailing. Without that it's not much the same.
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Hmm. In the first one it appears she has found either a lightsaber or one of the Sonic Screwdriver variants.
I don't see that much similarity. Girl with glasses in steampunk world. Meganekko are big; you want a smart girl hero, nothing says smart girl like glasses. You want main character general appeal, blonde still seems to sell more than the others.
And even if you start from the same basic premise, two authors will go in different directions. Often a writer will end up doing something that other people did, or vice versa, without knowing about it, and that's just the way it is. I certainly won't change what *I* write just because someone else happens to be writing, or have written, something similar. I had some people asking me if I was trying to steal from/riff on "Underworld" or "World of Darkness" when I did Digital Knight; I had to somewhat gently point out to them that much of DK was written before V:TM ever came out, let alone "Underworld".
And the Foglio's art STYLE is THE signature. I didn't have any "Agatha" vibes coming from this girl, because, well, it's a completely different art style. "Look and Feel" doesn't come from "blonde girl with glasses", it comes from the exuberant drawing style, the lush figures (in a world where ultra-slender figures are the norm, even in comics), the rich detailing. Without that it's not much the same.