…and he’s getting sued by a woman named Kelly Van who claims he ripped it off from an on-line book of hers called “Sheila the Warrior: The Ðámņëd”? Really?
This isn’t exactly Harlan Ellison & Terminator redux. First of all, not to go all Comic Book Guy, but that is quite possibly one of the worst titles I’ve ever heard, even for on-line. Sheila the waitress, Sheila the aunt, Sheila the hairdresser, Sheila the paralegal, okay. Sheila the warrior? Doesn’t work for me, and tacking on “The Ðámņëd” hardly adds gravitas. It’s right up there with “Romeo and Ethel the Pirate’s Daughter,” and that was a joke. Second, with all the screamingly obvious predecessors that “Avatar” clearly has, she’s trying to claim he ripped it off from her? Based on the fact that her protagonist, situated in a mystical place called Tibet (yeah, that’s original), has blue skin and yellow eyes? Congratulations: You both ripped off Nightcrawler.
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