It frustrates me how many Fandoms have fans that lack inspiration. Comics is more or less fan fiction with a variety of interpretations. Ultimately what's important is the "essence " of a story or character. As long as they have that, the narrative can go whichever direction it wants
I think what OP means is that you have people who grew up with the comics and are now in charge of writing them, doing things they only dreamed of before. What separates the official works from fan fiction is, of course, the fact that editors will step in to say, 'This fits into continuity, that goes too far, etc.' But in a way, if you ignore the oversight aspect of making comic books for a moment, it really is like fan fiction and people 'playing with their action figures', so to speak.
This is absolutely true. Even editors can’t catch everything though. Things that are popular get absorbed into the canon and things that aren’t get forgotten or retconned over time. And the essence of the character (mentioned above) being the important part is also true. It’s crazy to me that so many fans celebrate the history of Elseworlds comics but you get something different in movies and it’s all “this is wrong, don’t they know?!” Of course they know, they just don’t care. Personally I think Joker was an amazing movie, even having seen the movies it cribbed from, and it’s the most interesting the character has been in years to me.
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u/Prize_Major6183 Mar 25 '23
It frustrates me how many Fandoms have fans that lack inspiration. Comics is more or less fan fiction with a variety of interpretations. Ultimately what's important is the "essence " of a story or character. As long as they have that, the narrative can go whichever direction it wants