So, I just found out that two of my favorite book trilogies basically stole a lot of their names/ideas from a British comic book in the 60s.

Dammit. For reference, I'm talking about the Coldfire trilogy (Gerald Terrant aka the Hunter is the main character) and the Millennium trilogy (basically, Lisbeth Salander is nearly a carbon copy of this Modesty Blaise character).

Woe is Sam's imagination.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modesty_Blaise

God dammit!

Also, while it has been quite a while since I read the Coldfire... I would pin the other guy as the main character. Damien something? Man, I might pick it back up again just because I remember it being so good. I've got a thing for the "bible and a gun" type characters though, so maybe Damien just stood out to me more.

Damien Vryce was the name, if I remember correctly.

However, once you got into the second two books and realized that Tarrant was the Prophet and the dude who started the whole religion, you can basically make the assumption that although he didn't get the most "air-play" in the books, he was by far the main character (that and the fact he was on those badass Brom covers for the books).

Just kinda interesting to me. I wonder if C.S. Friedman or Stieg Larsson read those comics/books and inadvertantly used names/character ideas without even conciously knowing it.

I do kind of remember all that.

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