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There's this webcomic called Skipper the Robot Kid...does anybody think it's too close to Astro Boy?
Here are a few examples:

It centres around a boy who has robotic parts put in him after he gets hit by an SUV. He receives jets and armour, finds a robotic boy and his sister, and helps those two to defeat a crazed businessman.
...Well?

From your description it seems similar; but from the sample pages, I cannot see much similarity.

Story line sounds similar...But I agree with jeffbert, can't see much similarity in those pages.

Well, a few characters are somewhat similar to Astro Boy characters. This page features a girl named A.M.I. who is somewhat like Uran, here's a portly man like that of Shunsaku Ban, and it's openly admitted that a character named Jonathon Lewis was inspired by Dr. Tenma (despite the fact that Tenma and Jonathon have virtually nothing in common).

I think if two things where the same one would have to be no higher the 25 percent or it would be copy right. I'm not sure though, i might be wrong.