After weighing all sides of the issue (not all sides, really; just the ones that came to mind relatively quickly) I have made my own observations on a situation brought to my attention by Jewbacca in his post Mencia still a thief. The evidence as given shows that Carlos/Ned clearly lifts material from other comics. The attention seems to be on his theft of material. Borrowing material from other artists is nothing new. Johnny Cash stole material from all sorts of people and everybody stole from Bob Dylan. Film studios come out with remake after remake of once great films. My wife is currently reading Wicked, a book that features the villain of another book by a long dead author. So why not comics? The point here should be that he does covers of other people's material without giving credit. If a Kiss cover band tried to claim the songs were their own original material, as was the costuming, some serious ass kicking would be due.
More importantly than the whole theft issue, Mencia is just a bad comic. From what I've seen (not much) he has a total lack of presence and timing. Then again, cover bands usually do suck.
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