User blog comment:Raidra/Ernie Krueger/@comment-25169949-20160723194404/@comment-4849011-20160724005900

I have a lot of rip-offs in my comics, but I acknowledge them, and I try to put my own spin on them. You and I, and presumably everyone else that's responded to this blog post, understand that you can't rip something off and then claim you're not ripping something off. The problem is people who do an obvious rip-off of something and then insist, in all seriousness, that they created an original character, and how dare the admins accuse their "original" character of being just a knock-off. On a related note, Banning recently had a story, "The Unkillable Kenny Leonard", which spoofed creepypasta writers seemingly unable to write stories that weren't cliched.