Muscular Development and Captain America
The following is taken from the Captain America profile on Marvel.com:
Steve Rogers was a scrawny fine arts student specializing in industrialization in the 1940′s before America entered World War II. He attempted to enlist in the army only to be turned away due to his poor constitution. A U.S. officer offered Rogers an alternative way to serve his country by being a test subject in project, Operation: Rebirth, a top secret defense research project designed to create physically superior soldiers. Rogers accepted and after a rigorous physical and combat training and selection process was selected as the first test subject. He was given injections and oral ingestion of the formula dubbed the “Super Soldier Serum” …
The following is taken from the Muscular Development website:
Steve Rogers was a scrawny fine arts student whom attempted to enlist in the army only to be turned away due to his poor physical status. A U.S. officer offered Rogers an alternative way to serve his country by being a test subject for an experimental drug project called “Operation Rebirth.” The experiment was a top secret defense research project designed to create physically superior soldiers. He was given injections of the formula dubbed the Super Soldier Serum….
You can imagine the point I’m making here. Look, I’ve got nothing against MD or Robbie Durand, but when you steal someone else’s work, and put your name on it, you piss me off. It’s even worse when you do it to Marvel Comics, because I’m a tremendous comic-book nerd.
At the age of 12, I got the “sex talk” and some condoms. Since I had a monthly subscription to about a dozen comic books at the time, it pretty much insured that the sex talk was probably about 6 years too early. If World of Warcraft were around in the early ’90s, I’m sure I’d still be a virgin*.
It’s bad that he lifted a whole paragraph from someone else’s work, but nobody’s perfect. I know that in my case, I’ve written about five different profiles (for Steroid.com, ISteroids.com, SteroidsProfiles.com, SteroidWorld.com, and for Mesomorphosis.com) for literally every steroid in the world, and I’m sure that some (must?) resemble stuff written by other people. I’m not aware of any incidences of this happening, but it stands to reason that a sentence (paragraph?) here and there is going to look like something else, at some point, when you are a writer. Nobody’s perfect, and if you write two or three pages on Dianabol, then repeat that process five times, some of what’s written will ultimately look like something somebody else wrote about Dianabol. I’ve probably done it to Llewellyn, Rea, etc..and they’ve probably done it to me too.
That’s just a fact, and nobody’s perfect. But honestly, how can you steal from Captain America? That’s…just…UnAmerican! Captain America’s been torn apart, now he’s a court jester with a broken heart.
There’s also a ton of grammatical mistakes in Robbie’s article (have I mentioned that even the title contains an error?), something that’s pretty inexcusable when you’re the senior editor for a magazine (and yeah, I’ll hold my hand up and say I’ve made some embarrassing errors that got published as well). It’s just a bad, unprofessional look for MD to publish, even online, an article rife with typos and grammar mistakes.
I won’t get into the fact that I’ve written more on SARMS and S4 than anyone else…and did so before anyone else knew what I was talking about…therefore I also won’t get into the fact that I have no interest in reading about a drug (any drug) from someone who hasn’t tried it. The guy seems to have a lot of scientific knowledge, but I’m pretty sure his practical experience is completely lacking. Again, nobody’s perfect, and I’m sure every writer who wasn’t named “Adam” probably has written stuff that resembles other people’s work.
But Durand’s knowledge of comic books is lacking, and that really ticks me off. How can you be three hundred pounds, hold an advanced degree in science, and not know anything about comic books???
(* A virgin with a 30th level Night Elf Mage)
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