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Jun 14 11 9:30 PM
Fin Fang Foom wrote:...all these other characters have been "redefined" so many times by so many hands that the fans neither recognize nor care about them anymore. I wonder if a key part of this problem isn't that, for the most part, the only people left who have an interest these characters to begin with are the same people who had an interest in one of the previous incarnations. It often seems like the biggest selling point in this sort of situation is, inevitably, that it's the relaunch of a licensed property -- and sure, I understand, that's an attempt to build on whatever equity there might be. But the problem is, by this point, that might not be much. And I wonder if making too big a point about these properties as an acquired license, doesn't turn people away -- as though if you aren't already familiar with these characters, you shouldn't bother. (Never mind that readers of mainstream comics seem loathe to stray too far out of their comfort zone, to begin with). So you remake the characters in a new image, then, to try to make them more new -- but then you're just pushing away those people who liked those characters as they were. We might be at the point where all of these acquisitions and licenses and whatnot just don't have the build-in advantages they used to.
...all these other characters have been "redefined" so many times by so many hands that the fans neither recognize nor care about them anymore.
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