Attention Last month we were rather sad even come upon the RAiD pack (unbeknown to the hard working people who put the RAiD Rendition pack together) One of our artists namely Adidas formerly of RAiD apparently submitted a ripped ansi originary drawn by The Retarded Warrior in the pack The staff of RAiD were not aware of this event until the post by Jabberwocky on the subject RAiD sincerely apologizes for this mistake and would like to guarantee that it will not happen again We were displeased immmensely with this event but it must be understood that we cannot be alert for every single ansi that goes through the group and spot a rip because it is simply impossible with the time restraints involved in running a group and it is left soley to the artist not to risk shaming himself As I write this I know Adidas is no longer a member of RAiD and therefore all RAiD art from this point on is original I also would like to thank Jabberwocky for the information and seeing this incredibly blatant rip but I MUST disagree with the stance that he took in even suggesting that we would continue to harbour artists who ripped and also for using such stereotypical and prejudiced point of views such as saying RAiD rips ansi s because that would suggest that all artists in RAiD are unorginal and those kind of comments are extremely tasteless and uncalled for We were surprised to see a member of a great magazine such as Psychosis writing irresponsibly like that and we hope comments like those are better thought over before they are publicly spoken again Precautionary steps were taken by the staff and we hope that all of you will enjoy this our second pack despite the effort on one artist s part to destroy a good name and ruin a lot of fun for a lot of people - RAiD Staff