04-29-2017, 03:20 PM
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Back in 1997, Antarctic Press published a comic called "Diesel: Masters of Dragon", written and ilustrated by Jochen "Joe" Weltjens. After being rediscovered back in early 2016, the comic became infamous by how much it was "inspired" by the manga series JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, particulary the third story arc: Stardust Crusaders.
Basically, the comic is about a group of people called "stand users" capable of summoning Stands (think of it as in a spirit animal of sorts) that grant their users special abilities, and if the user's stand gets damaged, the user gets damaged as well, which is exactly how the Stands (they didn't even change the name) work in JoJo. Addditionally, the villian of the first -and only- issue is a shameless ripoff of N'Doul: a blind man who uses a splash of water (or blood, in the case of Not-N'Doul) that he can remotely control and shape into anything to attack his foes from afar. Most of the later half from the fight the stand users have against Not-N'Doul is the same as in the fight the Joestar Group has against N'Doul, right down to the way the villain was finished off.
According to Antartic Press' office manager, the reason behind Diesel becoming a thing in the first place was because Jochen "Joe" Weltjens, the creator, got ahold of a fansubbed copy of the old Jojo OVAs. He was, obviously, totally blown away and loved everything about it. He wanted to share with the rest of the western world the awesomeness of JoJo, but even though he worked at Antartic Press, they coulnd't do anyting in order to localize the manga over there, so he decided to share the word of JoJo by himself, using the power of 90's American comic book art.
Sources:
http://ls57tiger.freepgs.com/jojo/phpBB3...f=2&t=7699
http://archive.is/5IJE9
Basically, the comic is about a group of people called "stand users" capable of summoning Stands (think of it as in a spirit animal of sorts) that grant their users special abilities, and if the user's stand gets damaged, the user gets damaged as well, which is exactly how the Stands (they didn't even change the name) work in JoJo. Addditionally, the villian of the first -and only- issue is a shameless ripoff of N'Doul: a blind man who uses a splash of water (or blood, in the case of Not-N'Doul) that he can remotely control and shape into anything to attack his foes from afar. Most of the later half from the fight the stand users have against Not-N'Doul is the same as in the fight the Joestar Group has against N'Doul, right down to the way the villain was finished off.
According to Antartic Press' office manager, the reason behind Diesel becoming a thing in the first place was because Jochen "Joe" Weltjens, the creator, got ahold of a fansubbed copy of the old Jojo OVAs. He was, obviously, totally blown away and loved everything about it. He wanted to share with the rest of the western world the awesomeness of JoJo, but even though he worked at Antartic Press, they coulnd't do anyting in order to localize the manga over there, so he decided to share the word of JoJo by himself, using the power of 90's American comic book art.
Sources:
http://ls57tiger.freepgs.com/jojo/phpBB3...f=2&t=7699
http://archive.is/5IJE9