On the right, the well-known Watchmen icon. Trademarked and in use since 1986.
On the left, Marvel Comics’ ad for their new X-Men summer event, “We Are The X-Men.”
Coincidence? Really?
Worse still, if there are any walruses in the storyline, Marvel could have Yoko Ono up their ass.
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Nobody ever used a smear of blood in a graphic pre-Watchmen?
If you can find prior art, I'd love to see it. Make it black & yellow circle, and a smear of blood.Maybe the smiley with a bullet hole.
If I have some time, I may go looking. In the meantime, I was just trying to note that the use of a smear of blood was certainly not new with Watchmen. No specific examples to hand (OK, OK. I'll find the time.) but I'm sure you cuold find it used on, for example, many posters for horror movies.As for the colors and circle, the X-Men have a associate with the color yellow that goes back to the Stan and Jack days, and the circular X logo has been around for a good long time as well.Now, had the X-Men graphic used a smear of blood with a similar shape to the Watchmen one (elongated, almost arrow-like) or similarly positioned I'd say you might be onto something. As it is, seems to me suggesting one is a rip-off of the other, particularly to the point that lawyers need be involved, is akin to claiming the Watchmen logo is a rip-off of Forrest Gump's T-shirt because both had the happy face and Gump's had mud streaks across it.
For example, from 1981: http://hardfeelings.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/e…Talk about a face with blood- streak…