John Simm (of Life on Mars and Doctor Who) and Thom Yorke (of Radiohead) do strike me as looking rather similar… what do you think?
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This is a picture from the current ad campaign designed to flog Young Persons’ Railcards. Doesn’t the chap there look a lot like Morpheus from The Matrix (see below)?
This is a picture from The Matrix. Doesn’t Morpheus look a lot like King Mob from the comic The Invisibles (see below)?
This is the cover of The Invisibles, issue 19. Doesn’t King Mob on the cover there look a lot like Grant Morrison, the comic’s creator and writer (see below)?
This is Grant Morrison. Doesn’t he… oh, you get the general idea.
I know that Katie ‘Jordan’ Price has somehow managed to work her way into the mainstream, but I have to say that I think her forthcoming book, with its apparent attempt to emulate an image associated with the film version of a Henry James tale, is a step too far in trying to gain literary clout…
First there, the logo of Pcubed, an international firm of management consultants. And second and more neon-ly , the sign above the door of P3, the nightclub owned by the witch sisters in the TV show Charmed.
(All images copyright their respective owners, of course; no copyright infingement is intended.)
The first image there is from the ‘The Adventures of God: The Ultimate Super-Hero’ in the Spitting Image Giant Komic Book (1988), and is illustrated by Steve Dillon. The second panel is from ‘SuperGod (and The Son Of Man Wonder)’ in the latest issue of Viz (170, coverdated November 2007), and unless I miss my guess it’s drawn by Davey Jones.
Rather similar, I think you’d agree, but I have to say I genuinely don’t think it’s a case of plagiarism – the issue of free will and God is one which is endlessly discussed (and is a bit theologically awkward, really), and I don’t think that Mr Jones is exactly short of ideas: he came up with the Viz strip The Vibrating Bum-Faced Goats, after all, which hardly suggests a paucity of imagination.
Still, an amusing coincidence, I like to think.
Watching the film “Ratatouille’ last week, I thought that there was something of a similarity (though not in attitude) between the food critic Anton Ego and the writer Will Self… is it just me?
Twin Peaks, Series 2 Episode 16 (1991)
Hank Jennings : You’ll be Big Ed’s whore for the rest of your life.
Norma Jennings : I’d rather be his whore than your wife!
(Written by Barry Pullman)
Titanic (1997)
Cal Hockley : You’re going to him? To be a whore to a gutter rat?
Rose : I’d rather be his whore than your wife.
(Written by James Cameron)
A good friend of mine (Hello, Red!) has been invited to attend a fancy dress party – in a costume which, according to the invitation, must be of someone or something beginning with the letter ‘E’.
Amongst other suggestions, I put forward that she might want to go as Elvira, until she pointed out that… well, I think you can guess from the accompanying pictures what she feared the misinterpretation might be.
Fair comment; one is a creature who only seems to come out at night, and the other…
Sauntering through Soho a couple of weeks ago, I spotted a chap who looked familiar.
“Oh,” I thought, “that’s Kevin Godley of Godley and Creme and 10CC. Perhaps I should go over and say how much I admire his work, particularly the video for Frankie Goes to Hollywood’s ‘Two Tribes’.”
Then he drew closer and I realised it was in fact writer and TV presenter Howard Jacobson, who always seems an intelligent chap, but to whom I honestly have nothing to say.
One of the very rare occasions in my life when I actually avoided an embarrassing situation for everyone concerned.
