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comment by tacocat
tacocat  ·  2765 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: August 31, 2016

Almost all superhero comics are fan fiction. And some of them are very good. It's debatable where the transition from My Little Pony slash fiction and Watchmen begins but money is probably involved.





user-inactivated  ·  2765 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Marvel and DC books are like reading the stories people make with their action figures. Some stuff is awful, most of it is bland yet fun, every now and again you get something magical.

tacocat  ·  2765 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I would say most of it is awful but it's such a weird, prolonged experiment in collaborative storytelling that it borders on sublime human creative achievement. I'm exaggerating a little but I'm massively interested in a world where there's a canon explanation for Stan Lee forgetting the Hulk's name one time. There is absolutely nothing else like the DC and Marvel universes in all of fiction.

kleinbl00  ·  2765 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The actual market for superhero comics is diminutive, though. DC themselves put it at under 200k.

user-inactivated  ·  2765 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The transition is actually at the My Little Pony/Watchmen crossover.

Just kidding, that's not real.

Just fuckin' kidding about kidding, it's totally real.