Darkened corners

Paranoid is being in possession of all the facts. Great bumper sticker and no doubt a legally justifiable reason for setting a private eye on the neighbours, question is how does this fit into comics? Try this one; first to print wins. The web is not a happy kids room full of soft toys and warm blankeys, it is a jungle teeming with the most voracious, nasty, godforsaken creatures ever to be birthed. All of this leads to my question for this post: What is safe on the web?

If I post an extract of a comic I’m writing along with a brief synopsis, which turns up in a similar but altered form in a big two title a few months later, besides being an idiot where do I stand? The principle of communal ideas means in all likelihood someone else has thought of the idea you just had an orgasm over, and also probably came. So is how you tell it important, will the story still have value or will the accusations of copycatting flow freely? Most importantly how do you cover your arse in a space with no walls. I don’t honestly know. Are you paranoid enough?