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Sunday, July 27, 2008

Heroes "What Hero Are You?" Tee vs. Poptastic's "What's Your Super Power?" Tee  

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Now here's something you don't see everyday!

Last year my husband, a huge sci-fi and comic book fan (who's actually a comic book writer/artist himself) came up with the idea of a t-shirt with icons/symbols to represent common "super powers" exhibited by various heroes we've all seen in cartoons, comic books, movies, and tv shows.

So we launched our original "What's Your Super Power?" t-shirt in February 2007:


(See this design in more t-shirt styles and colors HERE).

Earlier today, in anticipation of Heroes season 3, I was looking at official Heroes t-shirts and chanced upon this:



Now does that look almost exactly like our design or what? The symbols have been re-imagined but the illustration style and typeface that was used are very similar to ours. I found these shirts here, here, and here. UPDATE: Edited to erase links.

Oh well...*shrugs*

I'll just leave it up to you now, dear customer. If you want an official but commercial Heroes tee, then go ahead and click the links above*. If you want to support indie designers like ourselves, you may purchase the original but non-Heroes-centric "What's Your Super Power?" t-shirt from our shop ... and thus have our undying gratitude. :)

*But if you really must have an official Heroes tee, I'd rather you check out the following instead (these are pretty cool):

Heroes Hiro Master Sword T-Shirt Sheer

Heroes Hiro Master Sword T-shirt

Heroes Primatech Paper T-Shirt Sheer

Heroes Primatech Paper T-shirt

Heroes Helix T-Shirt

Heroes Helix T-shirt

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2 comments: to “ Heroes "What Hero Are You?" Tee vs. Poptastic's "What's Your Super Power?" Tee


  • 7:01 AM  

    Hi Cynthia.

    Doesn't it make your blood boil when you see something like that!

    I know that as designers, we can often have similar ideas... but come on... that looks too close for comfort in my oppinion!

    We had a Heroes inspired design (that was bought by the one and only Adrian Pasdar!!) and then we had to remove it after a complaint by the studio - it's been re-invented into a "OBAMA for PRESIDENT"... but isn't quite the same :( At least I got one before it had to be removed! To my point though... I think that someone who is doing 'official' designs for Heroes, was doing a search online and that's when they found it! (it didn't use the show title, logo, character images, and so on... but it used the name "Petrelli" which was apparently a breach in intellectual property!). So I'm guessing that your design may have been seen and 'copied'!!!

    How funny... David (my partner in life/business) also started out as a comic book artist/writer! He did the original pen illustration for "Little Alex".


  • 4:13 PM  

    Manz! Yeah it sucks.... I was gonna tell you about this over email. Wait, I shall PM you a longer reply in a while... :)