spectre_general

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February 29, 2012 7:43 pm Once again, who is using a character and how good they are as a creator is irrelevant. Alan Moore did not deny L Frank Baum, Lewis Carroll, or Sir James Barrie the rights to their works, nor prevent them from making a profit on them as they saw fit, as was the case with Watchmen. The point isn't that someone using a pre-existing idea. That happens all the time, and no one cares. Sometimes great art is made that way. That's everything from Shakespeare to Michael Crichton. The point is that a creator who has been exploited is still being exploited, just a little more so.
February 29, 2012 12:22 pm Alan Moore can be a hypocrite as much as anyone, and I'm not a big fan of Lost Girls, but this whole "Moore uses other people's characters too" debate is missing the point entirely. In order for this to be an apt comparison to what was done to Moore (and Kirby, and dozens of others) is if Moore went back in time before Alice in Wonderland, Wizard of Oz and Peter Pan were written, had the authors sign a contract saying he could publish those books, and then take sole ownership of them, denying Barrie, Baum and Carroll most of the profits, and the rights to republish, continue or otherwise use their own characters. There's a difference between appropriation and fan fiction.
November 8, 2011 12:30 pm We've spent so long trying to convince people that comics aren't just for kids that we forgot about the ones that were. Honestly, you can tell mature superhero stories, but they work best in an all ages format. They don't need to grow with their readership, the readership needs to move on to more mature, challenging works.We're a generation of people who have clung to their adolescence more than most, but eventually you just have to let it go. And this applies to creators even more than readers! Every time I pick up a book that's promises "everything you know is wrong!" I just have to think it's cause the writer has read so much superhero stuff they're sick of it, but haven't realized it yet. Or whenever the Batman and Superman are calling each other "Bruce" and "Clark" in public, because honestly, no grown man would call another "Batman" in public... Maybe it's time for the creators to hang up the cape. I'm just saying, ask a superhero fan about the best adventures of X superhero? They're probably going to give a classic Lee-Kirby-whoever story written before 85, when superheroes managed to occasionally tackle more mature subjects but were by and large all ages books. There's nothing wrong with growing up.