Incarnate

Prepare your anus.

	“	If you steal my artwork, you will pay. In cash.	„
	—Nick Simmons, first journal entry on his deviantART journal page. Now an ironic footnote.

Incarnate is a comic book conceptualized, written, and drawn by Nick Simmons,^✡ son of that guy with the tongue.

It recently rose to Internets fame when it became apparent that the characters and storyline were ripped off from various other manga, many of the panels were straight-up traced from said manga, and half of the art was not even drawn by Simmons in the first place.

Other than that, the "original comic" is about Revenants, who can regenerate. That's it.

First Denial of Publication

Incarnate was originally up for publication not so long ago, under the name of Skullduggery. It was supposed to be published by IDW, a publishing company in alliance with Gene Simmons' own comic company, but even then the art was so bad that the deal fell through. Nick was butthurt over the fact that not even his daddy's company would publish his kiddy book.

	“	Well, first off, the art simply wasn't good enough. The people at IDW must have had the patience of saints to deal with the chicken scratch I turned in to them. My art was messy and juvenile. Amateur at best. I'm nowhere near pro now, to be sure, but I'm miles beyond what i used to be, especially in character design and overall neatness. And, with the help of Nam Kim and his team, the book has really turned into something I can be proud of.	„
	—Nick Simmons, when displaying good sense.

However, Nick, instead of improving his art like everyone else does, decided it was best to trace. Because everyone knows you can do it on a professional level.

The Young Artist blooms....or not About missing Pics

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  his first journal entry. Notice the deviantART meme of threatening legal action if people rip off your works.
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  Who needs life drawing classes when you've got your "references"?
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  THE GAME. Also, fap fodder for lawsuits.
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  Nick gives "tips" on tracing to an aspiring TARTlet. (http://comments.deviantart.com/4/8048838/823914188)

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Plagiarism Exposed

What do you mean, traced?

Totally completely different.

Early parallels were drawn between Incarnate and Hellsing, namely the character design - Mot, the main character of Incarnate, is basically just a gayer version of Alucard, the main character of Hellsing.

While the alarm bells were sounded, nobody gave a shit, and the similarities were just that - similarities. That is, until the Bleach fandom decided to put Incarnate and Bleach panels side by side and - surprise, surprise - proved that there was much, much more to it.

It turned out that, not only were the characters of Incarnate incredibly similar in design and personality as the characters of Bleach, but that many panels in Incarnate had actually been traced. It seems that Mr. Simmons has plagiarized character designs, fight scenes, plot segments, dialogue, poses, and expressions both from manga and from online artists.

With no time to waste, the entire Bleach fandom was put on red alert. This then spread across the Internet. Faster than you can say "Streisand Effect", poor old Nicky was facing down the barrel of millions (and millions) of angry wapanese charging their Bankai looking for his head on a Naginata.

What's been copied?

• Bleach
• Hellsing
• Vampire Hunter D
• NANA
• Dogs: Bullets & Carnage
• Deadman Wonderland
• One Piece
• Code Geass
• Black Lagoon
• Full Metal Alchemist
• D.Gray-Man
• Kuroshitsuji
• Death Note
• Lupin The Third
• Naruto
• Neon Genesis Evangelion
• The Sandman
• Prototype
• RAE
• ChaosVoid
• RobbinGraves
• Staerk
• And more...?

Backlash

Oh, shit! He's tracing IRL, too!

Despite the Bleach fandom taking their sweet time to find out about this outrage, they went batshit insane over it, and they expected Simmons to make an official statement on the subject. Unsurprisingly, Simmons has not said anything to counter these accusations. Some argue that he is too busy crying through mouthfuls of ramen and pocky. However, several weeabos somehow got a hold of Kubo Tite, the author of Bleach, who has since made a tweet acknowledging the plagiarism:

	“	So, uh, from yesterday night until this morning, there've been an amazing number of messages from overseas fans along the lines of "There's a manga imitating BLEACH in America!" Well, I had a look at the site and I don't understand English that well, but I think what's written there is something like "It's a manga drawn by Gene Simmons' son, Nick Simmons." To be honest, the fact that Gene Simmon's son is a manga-ka disturbs me more than whether he's really copying or not."	„
	—Kubo Tite - on not giving a fuck.

On February 25th, however, the weeabos actually got something done. The publisher of Incarnate, Radical Comics, announced on its official blog that it would be halting distribution and production of Incarnate "until the matter is resolved". It will be interesting to see how his daddy gets Nick Simmons out of this one.

Gallery of Troll Art About missing Pics

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  A portrait of Nick Simmons in his own style.
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  MY TOTALLY ORIGINAL IDEA.
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  Obligatory Demotivator
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  Speedking
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  Nick doing his laundry.
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  LOOK AT MY NEW MAGMA ITZ TTLY GAWTH

Facebook Troll

Nick himself appeared to have gone on Facebook to defend his shitty tracing job. He said that he had never ever heard of Bleach, had never read manga in his life (despite listing his favorite mangas and mangakas in various interviews as well as on his dA account) and had no idea why everyone was being so meaaaan to him. Predictably, this was soon revealed to be a troll, but it was funny while it lasted.

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4chan Faggotry

In honor of this mind-bending turn of events, moot decided to honor the shenanigans and renamed the /a/ board from Anime and Manga to Detergent and Magma (after fake Nick dissed Bleach as a "Detergent" comic and misspelled Manga to "Magma"). Because of the massive history of plagiarism in comics and cartoons, someone in /a/ suggested that /co/ also be renamed - to Plagiarism.

Nick's "Apology"

On March 1st, Nick released (through a 'representative') the following statement:

	“	Like most artists I am inspired by work I admire. There are certain similarities between some of my work and the work of others. This was simply meant as an homage to artists I respect, and I definitely want to apologize to any Manga fans or fellow Manga artists who feel I went too far. My inspirations reflect the fact that certain fundamental imagery is common to all Manga. This is the nature of the medium. I am a big fan of Bleach, as well as other Manga titles. And I am certainly sorry if anyone was offended or upset by what they perceive to be the similarity between my work and the work of artists that I admire and who inspire me.	„
	—Nick Simmons, on not understanding the meaning of the word 'homage'.

Unfortunately, as this is clearly bullshit, it has achieved nothing beyond making everyone angrier.

Evidence

Gallery of Tracing About missing Pics

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  Incarnate vs. Bleach 1
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  Incarnate vs. Bleach 2
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  I wish I could trace as well as Nick.
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  Incarnate vs. Bleach 4

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  He even traced the speedlines.
• KUROSAKI-KUN!! KUROSAKI-KUN!!
  KUROSAKI-KUN!! KUROSAKI-KUN!!
• I bet he had fun here.
  I bet he had fun here.
• I wonder?
  I wonder?
• Number 10
  Number 10
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  TOTALLY COMPLETELY DIFFERENT CHARACTERS
• File:Loltrace.jpg
• Moar
  Moar
• File:IncarnateBleachTrace2.jpg
• File:IncarateBleachTrace3.jpg
• File:IncarnateBleachTrace4.jpg
• File:IncarnateBleachTrace5.jpg
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• File:IncarnateBleachComparison1.png
• File:IncarnateBleachComparison2.png
• File:IncarnateBleachComparison3.png
• File:IncarnateBleachComparison4.png
• File:IncarnateBleachComparison5.png
• File:IncarnateBleachComparison6.png
• File:IncarnateBleachComparison7.png
• File:BleachIncarnateCompOverlay.png
• File:Bleach-Incarnate tracing PROOF.png
• File:BleachIncarnatesidebyside.jpg
• File:BleachIncarnate2pagecomparison.jpg
• Bewbs.
  Bewbs.
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  Moving bits of the face around to fuck with the perspective doesn't make it not tracing.
• File:IncarnateBleachMore.jpg
• This kid sure does like Bleach.
  This kid sure does like Bleach.
• And it just goes on...
  And it just goes on...
• File:MergeIncarnateBleachWat.jpg
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  If I make the girl blonde it means it's original, right?
• Traced from D-Gray Man?
  Traced from D-Gray Man?
• Add another manga to the list...
  Add another manga to the list...
• ORIGINAL CHARACTERRRR
  ORIGINAL CHARACTERRRR
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  Moar Hellsing
• File:Incarnate ClothingSteal.jpg
• Original character designs.
  Original character designs.
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  Apparently his tracing techniques started around in his very first comic...
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  Not traced, but pretty goddamn similar.
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  Omnomnom
• File:Incarnate Cover Hellsing by Pro Millenium.jpg
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  IT SURE TAKES A LOT OF TALENT TO RECOLOUR REM FROM DEATH NOTE
• Dude seriously. Was there any magma Nicky DIDN'T "reference"?
  Dude seriously. Was there any magma Nicky DIDN'T "reference"?
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  Hellsing Comparison
• Code Geass plagiarism?
  Code Geass plagiarism?
• Naruto? Kinda pushing it....
  Naruto? Kinda pushing it....
• Not even Black Lagoon is safe!
  Not even Black Lagoon is safe!
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  Ripped from One Piece...
• SUCH ORIGINAL CHARACTER DESIGNS!
  SUCH ORIGINAL CHARACTER DESIGNS!
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  Guard your deviantARTs!
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  Way to steal off your deviantART friends
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  Bad tracing is still tracing.
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  Holy shit, Nick stole again!
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  Tracing a TARTlet? Classy.
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  Our memes are not safe!!

DEACTIVATED

Even thought he deleted his account, we still must be vigilant in the possibility he is lurking in another guise.

See Also

• Art (theft of)
• Bleach
• Davis, Jim - Garfield's creator, who completely robbed an Italian artist
• Simmons, Gene
• Tracing
• Weeaboo

External Linkage

• letsleepinggodslie Screencap the living shit outta it before he deletes fucking everything. BALEETED. (Some pages were archived by Wayback Machine, nothing after 2010 though.)
• Radical Publishing's YouTube page
• Original Bleachness thread, lots of comparisons.
• Original GameFAQs thread; the one that started it all
• Nicky-boys Myspace page

Mentions in the Old Media

• Weeaboo News Network - Nick Simmons' Incarnate Halted Over Alleged Bleach Plagiarism
• Jew York Times -- Comic Book Author Accused of Plagiarism.
• Escapist Magazine - Heavy Metal Icon's Son Accused of Plagiarizing Famous Manga

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