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I was perusing a comic shop when I saw that Clive Barker's Nightbreed was still being made."

I think that if Clive knew about Nightspawn not only its titular simularity, but its creature concept of random freaks AND he didn't sue, he is a pretty awesome guy who values new ideas, even if they're based or derived from a preexisting concepts he came up with.

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Someone already polled? Or was it just a consensus. That Clive would have better reason than Todd?

I looked but there are far too many references to nightbreed.

To be honest... I don't think either really would have had a strong case against the NightBANE... baring some superficial similarities, the overall feel of the 3 settings is quite different. It's like trying to compare a Forgotten Realms Novel to the Lord of the Rings... sure you will find similarities (wizards, elves, epic quests, etc.), but in the end they are entirely different. That said... given the United States legal system in regards to cases like this... having any similarities (even superficial ones) is grounds for a successful suit (even if there is no way a reasonable people could mistake one for the other).

I'm afraid I would have to read Nightbreed to know if there was anything beyond the title in common. I do agree that 'breed' is closer to 'spawn' than 'hell' is to 'night' though, if that's the issue.

McFarlane's content had nothing to do with this. Hellspawn was such a blatant ripoff of Ghostrider in concept, he is the height of hypocrisy.

Nightspawn/Nightbane are nothing like either of those two. I can't even think of anything in comics right now that comes close to it. PF's Witches, Federation of Magic's Corrupt, Phase World's Demon Knights or HU's Mystic Bestowed (or Armageddon's Unlimited Deevil/Demon themed mods) were far closer to those themes than Nightspawn/bane ever was. Shows the guy probably never even picked up the book and just heard of the title.