By Lauren Smiley
What if Emily the Strange -- the sullen girl-power icon from
Berkeley-based company Comic Debris who claims her own clothing line, comic
book series, and soon, a motion picture -- isn't all that odd at all? Accusations
are flying around the blogosphere that Emily, whose emo pre-teen angst and message
of non-conformity ("There's nothing more boring to her than copying everyone
else" reads her on-line bio) may be, in the very creation of her dark soul, a
copycat.
Observers ha