A Few More Last Words

[grrm]

And one more thing

Comments

Well Said

[m0beus]

Appreciate your words, and I definitely understand where you're coming from. Think those are fine reasons. If writing fic were my thing, I would know to stay away from your guys

[katharon]

While I understand the level of love you're mentioning, there is actually a flaw in the argument about comic books. I agree that Spider-man should not be messed with, but for years upon years (meaning: long before Joe Quesada's poor editorial decisions), he was written by a variety of writers as being in a happy and long-standing romantic relationship with Mary Jane. Occasionally, I believe, he faltered, but it didn't matter which hand was writing them

Aliens

[jhlub]

You might be reading the wrong comics then. Many of the Aliens comics (Dark Horse) were written between the releases of the second and third movies, and do include Ripley, Newt, and Hicks all making it back. If I remember correctly, the Earth War series was particularly spectacular, and I've contemplated how cool that one would have been as a movie with modern, Avatar-grade CGI.

(I kept on telling myself I could keep reading the Not-A-Blog for Ice and Fire updates, without actually making a LiveJournal account and speaking up myself. Fail. Angry face to you!)

Re: Aliens

[mythfish]

Seconded. The Dark Horse comics are pretty darn good. Far better than the rest of the movies.

Re: Aliens

[jhlub]

I just re-read the Earth War (a.k.a. Female War--they made a one-shot of it, although I like the art in the 4-issue Earth War series better). It's a pretty neat story. Still has some sadness in it, but at least Newt's a bad ass instead of a corpse. You should check it out--they fight the Queen. Not the one in Aliens. She's a small-fry in the grand scheme of things. In Earth War, they fight the super-bug... and of course the royal guard. Story isn't bad either. Then they did some series based off it, that didn't include Ripley or Newt. Comic geeks, correct me if I'm wrong, but Genocide and AvP Deadliest of the Species take place post-Earth War, yes?

Re: Aliens

[cyberstorm79]

I've read a lot of good posts in the last hour, but that one may have just made my day

[monksp]

For a split second when I read that, I mixed up the real person and the character, and thought you mentioned a fanfic where Gatsby and Pat Buchanan ran off together.

It will be the stuff of my nightmares tonight.

[dagas_isa]

I don't think there's any problem to an author not liking fanfiction or telling fans not to write it. I also think the majority fans are quite reasonable when an author says that they do not allow fanfiction. I think the problem (and the explosiveness) comes when authors try to put some universal moral imperative on Why Fanfiction is a Dirty, Wrong Thing and Why Good Fans Don't Do It

[geminai5]

I second this opinion in regards to fans respecting authors and their wishes and how the main problem was with the perceived personal attack on fanfic writers/readers as a whole as being morally deficient and sexually deviant with malicious intent to prove the author made a mistake of some sort in the canon story.

As you say, it's about love, but unfortunately, it has become an I-love-the-characters/world-more-than-you debate between the author-creator who requests that no fanfiction be written, the author-creator who allows fanfiction to be written, and fanfic writers and readers.

We're all entitled to our opinions regarding who wins that debate, but to disrespect and bad-mouth the others in that debate is the gasoline fueling the rage.