Machine Teen

Machine Teen was a mini-series published by Marvel a few years ago. I recently picked up the paperback copy to check it out, not to attempt to rip it off, but to see if my ideas were too close to this story. My gosh, I think Mark Sumerak ripped ME off! I'm mostly kidding, but some of the plot elements are almost exactly what I wrote! Hey, I wrote the plot for Timmy a few years before this comic came out, so I came up with it 1st!

Funny part is, I sat next to Mark at a local comic convention, after his book had come out, and mentioned my ideas to him, not in detail, as I remember, but in vaguely hoping he might still have some editorial connections to Marvel. Nice guy!

I hate to rip on anyone else's stuff, but I feel the Machine teen story was a watered down version of what we're doing with Timmy. The characters seemed uninteresting, and the art uninspired. The comic was supposed to be part of Marvel's "Tsunami" wave of Manga-inspired books, but the art looked pretty dull, and not manga at all. Sorry, guys.

There's always accusations that any new idea was ripped off from someone else. Like I said, I came up with it 1st. Maybe the idea isn't totally original, but the way we want to tell the story is. Hope you're liking it as we bring you bits and pieces!