Nerdrage
Something I don't get about fandom is the way people have to tear things down sight unseen.
I'm not talking about stuff like "How dare they replace Batman!" or Flash/Green Lantern fans who prefer one character or another in the starring role, or Spider-Man fans who wanted to keep the Peter/Mary Jane marriage. Those are cases where fans are invested in the characters and stories, and they want to see certain elements of those stories preserved. It's about not wanting to lose something.
And I'm not talking about a simple, "Eh, not interested," or "Please don't drag the books I read into another ginormous event."
No, I mean people who see a preview for something new that doesn't impact anything they do care about and proceed to complain that a publisher would even dare to print this thing that they don't care about.
Because apparently every comic book must be aimed at the same person.
Seriously, look at the hate in the comments on this Final Crisis: Dance preview at the Source. It's a new team, they're off in their own corner of the DCU, it's not likely to change the status quo of any existing characters. So why are they so horribly offended that DC is printing it?
Link: More ranting about fan entitlement, and just because DC prints it doesn't mean you have to buy it.
The only reasonable explanation I can come up with is that they figure, well, if DC wasn't publishing this book that I don't want to read, then they would have published a book about my favorite character. But aside from that being an unrealistic hope in most cases, I really don't get the impression that many of the people complaining have thought that far through.
I'm not talking about stuff like "How dare they replace Batman!" or Flash/Green Lantern fans who prefer one character or another in the starring role, or Spider-Man fans who wanted to keep the Peter/Mary Jane marriage. Those are cases where fans are invested in the characters and stories, and they want to see certain elements of those stories preserved. It's about not wanting to lose something.
And I'm not talking about a simple, "Eh, not interested," or "Please don't drag the books I read into another ginormous event."
No, I mean people who see a preview for something new that doesn't impact anything they do care about and proceed to complain that a publisher would even dare to print this thing that they don't care about.
Because apparently every comic book must be aimed at the same person.
Seriously, look at the hate in the comments on this Final Crisis: Dance preview at the Source. It's a new team, they're off in their own corner of the DCU, it's not likely to change the status quo of any existing characters. So why are they so horribly offended that DC is printing it?
Link: More ranting about fan entitlement, and just because DC prints it doesn't mean you have to buy it.
The only reasonable explanation I can come up with is that they figure, well, if DC wasn't publishing this book that I don't want to read, then they would have published a book about my favorite character. But aside from that being an unrealistic hope in most cases, I really don't get the impression that many of the people complaining have thought that far through.