Today I noticed there is a comic book related column over at Pop Syndicate called Bent Corner. It’s written by an individual named Isaac Magaña. There is even a The Bent Corner forum dedicated to the column.
How original.
I had this blog a lot longer then the Pop Syndicate column has been in existence. The first column under the name “Bent Corner” was posted in February 2007. I first registered this domain back in 2005. I had a blog with the same name over at BlogSpot long before that. I also blog quite a bit about comic books.
Didn’t anyone over at Pop Syndicate do a quick Google search of the name before using it? I’m guessing not.
Fellow blogger Jesse Jace of Chorus, Isolate, Confirm recently had a similar experience. Jesse regularly writes a feature entitled Portrait of a Badass where he points to someone from the world of fiction who he believes is truly a bad ass. He’s been writing these features for years. The blog We Are Not Journalists then came up with their own “Portrait of a Badass” feature. Jesse called them on it and I think they changed the title.
What struck me odd about the Portrait of a Badass controversy was that nobody over at We Are Not Journalists bothered to Google the term before attempting to make it their own. I couldn’t imagine creating a name for something without first checking to see if anyone else already created that name.
Like the name Bent Corner.
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