Slight issue...(Re-draw/traced comic in issue.)

[Roughtiger]

(I have no idea what thread to post this in, but since this is something to do with a comic in the NT I'll stick it here for the editor to see.)

I noticed in issue 607, a comic has artwork been redrawn from another non-neopet comic that can be found on DeviantArt.
However, the comic it's copied from has a few bad words in it so I'll just post a censored version of it.
The comic in question is SMOOP by anadantae.
The comic which has parts copied from is done by DA user tysonhesse (previously known as Mechanical-Penguin.) Who made some interesting sonic the hedgehog comedy comics several moons ago.

Here's the orginal. (warning, content may offend?)

SPOILER: Click to show

I believe any kind of copying whether it's traced or not is agaisnt the rules. Unless, I have missed something and this is actually a-ok now. If so then ignore everything I just said and continue on with your lives.

[Ian Wolf-Park]

If I'm not mistaken, it is rare that something like this occurs, but there was at least one issue that had a blatant case of tracing/copying/plagarism. I think it was noticed immediately and taken off the NT.

As Hunter mentioned, I cannot see the resemblance between the one you mentioned and the one you linked/attached too.

EDIT: Well, I managed to find one reported case, but it's not the one that I was looking for.
ntwriters.proboards.com/thread/47555/plagiarism

[Kristykimmy]

The last three panels of the comic RT posted are very similar 5, 6, and 7 of the NT comic, only flipped. The expressions on the Kyrii aren't quite the same as Knuckles, but panel 7 of the NT comic is so close to the final panel of the the Sonic comic that I would not be surprised if they copied those panels.

Also the art in 5, 6, and 7 is noticeably better than in all the other panels. And, the pose in panel four is very close to Sonic's pose in panel five. At first glance, it's not obvious, but when you break it down, it starts to appear.

[Coaster]

I'm going to agree with Kristy on this one. Unless that whole part of the sequence is a commonly done set of almost exact poses in webcomics (like the trollface cliché, which the Kyrii visibly has in Panel 4, and lick-face which I saw in a recent Kiss The Mortog comic, and things like that), the poses are almost identical between Sonic and the Ixi.

I overlaid the images (flipped appropriately) in GIMP to make sure, and yes, the poses are pretty much exactly the same. (especially considering the mouths and hands, which you'd expect to be differently posed even if that sequence is commonly done.)

But again, it might be a common sequence. (I think I've seen an off-Neopets comic do the same thing that sequence more than once before, actually >_>)

(...although I thought this thread was going to be about the comic that was repeated from 604)

[Kino is Slightly Derpy]

Well, it looks like the comic has been taken out of the NT :/