I don't know. I worship John Byrne's Alpha Flight and I've hated everything that's followed his 28 issues run (so that's, what, three volumes of stuff now?). However, I've long learned that there's really no point to have much of an attachment to this kind of thing, regardless of whether it's corporate owned or not. It's not yours and that means your stake isn't as valuable as either those who create the work or the corporation that owns it.
Marvel and DC have destroyed much of what I've loved about comics in the 90s. The later Transformer cartoons changed everything that I liked from the first two seasons and the movie. Wrestling is entirely different from the 80s Kayfabe stuff - or the Southern tag team style I loved. Joss Whedon irritated the crap out of me with the later seasons of Buffy and Angel (let's not communicate, folks!). The Star Trek franchise pulled away from Gene Roddenberry's vision after his death. And Lucas messed up Star Wars. And on. And on.
I don't kvetch much about it because it's not mine. My only choice is to read (or watch) or not.
That, by the by, is the main reason I never got into writing fan fic. I can totally get that it might be very personally rewarding (and a great way to develop one's craft) but the characters aren't mine. And I just can't write characters that I have that little control over.
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Date: 2007-06-13 01:33 am (UTC)Marvel and DC have destroyed much of what I've loved about comics in the 90s. The later Transformer cartoons changed everything that I liked from the first two seasons and the movie. Wrestling is entirely different from the 80s Kayfabe stuff - or the Southern tag team style I loved. Joss Whedon irritated the crap out of me with the later seasons of Buffy and Angel (let's not communicate, folks!). The Star Trek franchise pulled away from Gene Roddenberry's vision after his death. And Lucas messed up Star Wars. And on. And on.
I don't kvetch much about it because it's not mine. My only choice is to read (or watch) or not.
That, by the by, is the main reason I never got into writing fan fic. I can totally get that it might be very personally rewarding (and a great way to develop one's craft) but the characters aren't mine. And I just can't write characters that I have that little control over.
Hope this makes sense!
Von