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Penny Arcade vs. American Greetings Revisited

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the your-right-to-parody-is-void dept.

Jojo writes "After American Greetings got some lawyers to bring down a Penny Arcade strip (M i r r o r) last week, PA is now striking back.. IANAL, but I fear their latest strip might get them into real trouble this time." As always, PA cracks me up, but these are scary events. The banned strip is clearly a work of parody, which I believe is still legal in this country, unless that too changed recently.

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  1. Admirable pluck... by TopShelf · · Score: 4, Funny

    At least they have a smile on their face as they get bent over...

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  2. Lawsuit by obotics · · Score: 2, Funny
    How much will they sue them for? A penny?

    hahahah /lame

    1. Re:Lawsuit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      The first one is free...

  3. American Greetings.. by grub · · Score: 4, Funny


    "American Greetings.. you will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy." sorry.. watched Star Wars last night.

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  4. Trouble by Henry+V+.009 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Of course their latest strip will get them in trouble. It's just asking for a slashdotting.

  5. Re:Opposite feeling by gpinzone · · Score: 2, Funny

    There was a character in Spaceballs called "Pizza the Hut." Why didn't Pepsi sue?

  6. Re:Opposite feeling by Jackazz · · Score: 4, Funny
    What if there was a character named Pizza the Hut?

    Gabe and Tycho surely don't want Pizza to send out for them!

  7. Re:Can someone explain? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Not slashdotting...tubing.

    As in, "PA is now getting tubed."

  8. Re:Clearly Parody, But.... by billnapier · · Score: 4, Funny

    They are going to get the biggest lawsuit once "America Greeting" hears about this...

  9. Not surprising.. by JPelorat · · Score: 2, Funny

    Unfunny is standard fare for Penny Arcade.

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  10. Re:How to fight lawsuit abuse in general by smoondog · · Score: 5, Funny

    But strawberry shortcake isn't a tort, its a cake!

    Ohhhhhh, tort, torte, I see....

    -Sean

  11. Re:It's all been done... by Mantorp · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm not clicking any links with goats in them

  12. Re:Penny Arcade is, unfortunantely, not protected by taustin · · Score: 2, Funny

    Anybody who takes legal advice from an Anonymous Coward deserves what they get.

    Anybody who mods legal advice from an Anonymous Coward is an idoit.

  13. Re:Bah by ryanvm · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's not funny. Violates the cardinal principle of comics.

    I think the author of Family Circus would like to have a word with you.

  14. Re:Horrible Boycott Idea by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    And a card is the only mail I'm likely to get that contains cash, I'm not about to start boycotting cash. :)

  15. Re:Stupid nazis... by zdislaw · · Score: 2, Funny
    I can't believe you just invoked the name our our savior in such a manner. I am just so completely offended and angry that I can't wipe the spit off my monitor fast enough. Please...the air....I can't get a breath. What's happening to me? Oh my god. He did it. "DumbWhiteGuy777" made good on his threat. He killed me. I've never felt so dead.

    And to think that you thought I'd freak out. I just thought the strip was stupid and lazy. Not so much funny either. Oh shit, I forgot I'm dead.

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  16. my letter by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I'm in complete disbelief that you would use corporate lawyer bully tactics to remove a parody cartoon from Penny Arcade. You've soiled yourself in my eyes.

    On another note, I find the following cartoon offensive and creepy:

    http://www.americangreetings.com/display.pd?path =2 3446&bfrom=3&prodnum=3003008

    It's a picture of two rabbits obviously engaged in foreplay and about to have sex. Please remove it from your website.

    Thank you

  17. Most Admirable... by WebCowboy · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...and I'd bow down before the gods of parody (once I stopped laughing my ass off) if I were to see PA's take on American McGee's treatment of the Smurfs....heh heh

    C'mon...Smurfette--a lone girl smurf amongst a community of 99 boy smurfs? "They're only a couple apples tall but it's still one big blue bang"

  18. Re:Opposite feeling by ktakki · · Score: 3, Funny
    Damn. Isn't that a sign of the apocalypse?

    You're confusing them with the Four Teletubbies of the Apocalypse.

    I am become Tinky-Wink, destroyer of worlds.

    Sorry.

    k.
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  19. Amer. Grtngs: P.A. Series by A_Non_Moose · · Score: 5, Funny

    You sent us a Greeting
    That said Cease and Desist
    So we give you "The Finger (TM)"
    (we couldn't resist)

    The "Red Bitch" has been mirrored
    Like DeCSS
    We just thought we'd share
    (or is it confess)
    .
    .
    .
    . /open cover to greeting card
    .
    .
    .
    .
    Fuck You

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  20. This has also happened to Nmap ... AG must chill by fv · · Score: 3, Funny
    I can understand how American Greetings could be a little uncomfortable about imagery of Plum Pudding getting her ass smacked by Strawberri Shortcake, but they need to chill out. A while back someone took my Nmap Security Scanner and created cartoonish parody that is 100 times more disgusting and offensive!

    Yet I didn't sue. I just got a chuckle at the sick mind who would create such a thing! AG should take note.

    -Fyodor
    Concerned about your network security? Try the free Nmap Security Scanner. Version 3.27 was released today