Update: The complaint is now online and we explain what's in it in fuller detail.

Charles Carreon, the lawyer representing user-generated content site FunnyJunk in its battle against "The Oatmeal" creator Matthew Inman, has now filed suit against Inman. Not on behalf of FunnyJunk, it appears—Carreon is the listed plaintiff.

And that's not all; the lawsuit mentions both Inman and the charities for which he has been raising money after Inman publicized FunnyJunk's initial $20,000 demand letter.

You've been served

Last night, legal blogs "Lowering the Bar" and "PopeHat" both reported that Carreon filed a case late Friday against Inman in San Francisco federal court. No one has a copy of the complaint yet (we checked—it's not yet available through the court's PACER system), but the summary from Courthouse News Service says that the case is about "trademark infringement and incitement to cyber-vandalism." (Carreon has been complaining publicly about having his site hacked and his inbox filled with bile.)

"Inman launched a Bear Love campaign, which purports to raise money for defendant charitable organizations, but was really designed to revile plaintiff and his client, Funnyjunk.com, and to initiate a campaign of 'trolling' and cybervandalism against them," says the summary.

Both legal bloggers are appalled by the case, whatever its details turn out to be, and have already offered some free legal help should Inman need it.

As for Carreon, a blogger at Rambling Beach Cat tracked him down last Friday and asked him about the entire case.

"That fact that [Inman] wants to react by advocating net war against me and accusing my mom of bestiality makes him lower than the low," Carreon concluded. (The "bestiality" reference is about Inman's mocking image of a supposed Carreon's mother "seducing a Kodiak bear," and which heads this post. No side in this debate so far comes off looking like a pinnacle of maturity and reason.) "If people want to side with him, they better check their motivations, because I am the kind of person that defends people from that kind of person."

"FunnyJunk is not suing him," Carreon added. "FunnyJunk didn't sue him. So what are people bitching about?"

This is true; FunnyJunk did not sue Inman. But Carreon apparently has, on his own behalf, based on Inman's reaction.

More as the story develops.