- Larisa: Tell me the secret passphrase! Then your death will be quick and painless. Otherwise…!
- Orc #1: Never!
- Hitomi: Yes! Don’t tell! Then Hitomi can have s-o-o-o-o much fun with orks!
- Orc #1 and orc #2: “Red dakka go fasta!”
- Hitomi: Why can Hitomi never have fun with orks?!
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Looks like orcs are the good guys in this story arc.
@ Cromm:
No matter what propaganda might tell you, the empire are never the good guys 😉
Careful, Orks are powered by beliefs…meaning that when they pray for Red Dakka to go faster, it will go faster.
Obviously, physical intimidation isn’t going to work. These creatures are clearly the kind of jackasses who think manliness is some measure of worth, gore and foul language automatically make things better, and that enjoying anything that is brightly-coloured, family-friendly, or halfway respectful makes you a weakling of some kind. Threaten to rip their heads off, and they’ll just have something to boast about in the afterlife. If you really want to scare them, drape a brightly-coloured streamer over their heads.
I’m sorry, no matter how I look at Hitomi in that armor…she’s totally an agent of Slaanesh.
Also, I will be disappointed if Sandra isn’t Inquisition (her PI alter persona fits it).
Hey nit sute if youre aware but thusbis a pretty bad timed comic series. Games workshop just posted an updated polity forbidding this kind if thing. Just though you should know
@ Silo268
Don’t worry: This is Woohammer 40K. Totally different.
Funny that they’re more afraid of the pink kitty than the angry pyromaniac.
@ Silo268:
I really hope you were using a text-to-speech program of some kind, because holy spell check failure, Batman.
@ Silo268:
I can’t speak for other jurisdictions, but in the US this is clearly protected parody under the 1A. Games Workshop can go pound sand.
@ Mogster:
It is just a little worrisome when Larisa isn’t the scary one.
DTIBA wrote:
Orks are FUNGUS. they have no concept of “manliness” – they are genderless speciess which reproduces by sheading spores everywhere.
you have to do literal “scorched Earth” policy with promethium and radiation to stop ork infestation.
they are the equivalent of nuke from certain assholes called “the Old ones” who designed them as bioweapon to fight the Necrontyr (and their Ctan overlords). they are geneticaly programmed to only enjoy fight and nothing else.
and quite frankly – what orks believe is what WILL happen. The Old ones designed all Orks to emmit a low level psychic warp field which twists reality around them.
to point that if enough orks are together they collective believe will just spawn ammunition inside the magazine of their guns 😀 😀 😀
«I fear no humie. But dat fing…»
If the Orks think you’re scary, then you are.
Very, Very, Scary.
@ Wizard:
Doesn’t mean GW won’t try (even if they’ll lose) which will cost many thousands of dollars in lawyers fees. There are a few well known parody sites that have effectively shut down due to this news. Not worth getting sued, even if you win.
But concerning this subject, I thought it was only fan animations that were banned. GW is apparently coming out with their own service specifically for Warhammer and 40k animations and apparently doesn’t want competition.
Heresy!
@ Wizard: What would a US law have to do with anything? Sandra & Woo is a German webcomic, and Games Workshop is British. If anything, it would be the German and UK laws which apply.
It need to be colored, as it was far ago… 🙁
…that’s no sword. *Hentai intensifies.
@ Cirom:
Both the German Infosoc Directive and the UK Copyright Law contain an exemption for parody which this easily falls under
Stan wrote:
THIS seems familiar to gamers who loved City of Heros (CoH) and City of Villains (CoV).
When those game were getting VERY popular, Marvel and DC comics decided they should get into the online gaming racket.
When they realized they would not be the premier (or first) super hero/villain game on the market, they ganged up on the makers of COH/COV.
Though CoH/CoV won, the owners were driven bankrupt and the games shut down.
Then, Marvel and DC settled back to enjoy the $$$ they expected from the gamers moving to their games.
Well, gamers aren’t comic readers.
Sure, some gamers read comics, but gamers can actually THINK and hold grudges.
Seems Marvel’s and DC’s games flopped. (not that the games were any good)
The quick and painless death was actually the flamer.
@ Nathan:
I agree. The other point here is that suing a person to bankruptcy is not really that easy in Germany, where Novil is based.
More generally, even without parody, this is not infringing on WH40K copyright. Copyright protects a specific firm of expression, not a concept. You can’t have a copyright in a fictional setting in German-style copyright law. You can only have the copyright to the specific stories told in that setting and to the illustrations. On a more limited basis, you can have the right to characters, but that right is limited.
In this case, the armor on Hitomi is clearly original. Chainsword is not copyrightable, and in any case, the illustration of one is clearly independent. The power armor of Larissa has no copyrightable attributes. The orcs, as a concept, are first of all, not a property of Games Workshop, and second, not copyrightable at all, being a concept.
“Red dakka go faster” is a copyrightable phrase, but falls into the right of citation, being short and used in supportive manner in otherwise original setting. However, it is probably not even copyrighted, the original form being “Red wuns go faster.” “Dakka” means ammunition, and the cited rule doesn’t exist in WH40K. If anything, this senseless phrase increases the originality of the work.
In any case, the totality of the story is original: you have original characters, in original gear, doing things that are not part of any Games Workshop story. Even if the work is based in some sense on older work, that is allowable according to Section 5, point 2 of Urheberrechtsgesetz which is broader than just right of parody, according to the Alcolix-prejudicate of Bundesgerichtshof.
So, I think Novil knows what he is doing. He is on very safe legal ground according to German law.
Crestlinger wrote:
Looks like a kind of macuahuitl, ouchies.
Reference:
“What does Dakka mean? Yep, ‘Dakka’ is the sound a machine gun makes, most famously, Ork weapons.” AKA. Rabid firepower.
Why do I have the impression that those poor Orcs mean Hitomi when refering to ‘Dat Woman’.
I mean, Larissa isn’t exactly the personafication of Chaos IMO.
These are NOT Orks.
EvilMidnightLurker wrote:
it would work on primitive ones – the ones that are too few to have technology…
May I most respectfuly express my opinion that “my original characters are so awesome that they totally PWN everyone, haha, losers!” style jokes are never as funny as the author of said original characters think they are, and also point out that this is the third storyline recently that’s pretty much that joke and nothing else?
So could we possibly have a storyline soon with some other kind of jokes? Please and thank you.
(also, Warhammer orcs being scared because they’re facing utter badasses? I call bullshit – if anything, they’d be clamouring for the honour of dying in the most awesome fight ever! :p )
Baeraad wrote:
You probably did not hear about the “One-eyed Yarrick”, Hero of Armageddon. During the defense of Hades hive the good commissar personally killed the warboss of the attacking host, cut his mechanic claw off, and raised it above his head (after loosing his own hand) – which broke the host and orks FLED in terror.
only after that comissar collapsed… when rescued he insisted mechanicus adjust the claw as his prosthetic… to strike fear in ANY orc. (also after hearing Orks say he has “evil eye” he had his regular one replaced with laser weapon.
(During the FIRST war of Armageddon… Inquisition is always watching, there was no demon invasion of Armageddon…)
also the guy survived being ran over with a damn BEYBLADE tank. (his own – called Fortress of Arrogance)
Baeraad wrote:
Sounds like a lot of “heeei u not funni! Be more funni pls!” to me
@ Wizard:
Claim to Fair Use is only as good as your ability to defend it in court. The current internet environment is exceedingly slanted towards copyright holders, and burden of proof is often on the creator to prove their work isn’t copyright infringement.
All corporations such as GW have to do to “win” these fights is simply starve out competitors. Sure, you might have an open-shut case of parody… but it’ll take you a few years and $100k+ to prove it, during which time your funding streams may be stonewalled. Can you afford that? Probably not, and it’s unlikely you’d get compensation for your legal fees unless you could sue for targeted harassment… which will take more time and money.
Ey, there is not such things as fem…
Na, just kidding. In fact you should send these design to the #28magchallenge and see how many heads explode
xthorgoldx wrote:
To be fair, there are also websites completely strealing and rehosting content – webcomics, books, movies, games. If someone steals and rehosts sandra and woo, Novil will be hard pressed to do something against that.
In my case, someone in China simply took the cover image of my fantasy book and offers merchandise over amazon. The worst in this case is that people who like my book might think that this is legitimate and then be ripped off by poor quality or simply goods which are never delivered.
Message to Richard :
Get
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xthorgoldx wrote:
the most ironic thing which will piss up most of the left leaning people (those who reason black trench coat = nazi) is that likely only one who is actually safe right now is the cellar shitlord Arch. because he already did this battle and what he does was deemed sufficiently transformative 😀
(thats only assuming youtube and google will care)
From “Kawaii” to “Kowai” it is just a letter… (Kowai=scary)
Paeris Kiran wrote:
Doesn’t matter. Orks have no fear of death at all. They reproduce by fighting and dying. They should be deliriously happy!
Kether wrote:
There are almost never “good guys” in WH40K. There are usually just bad guys and worse guys.
@ Lurker 2:
“Dakka” is also an Orc squadron.
Eh, might be good to have a few instances where the empire’s the good guys and the republic’s the bad, just to subvert the trope.