But you see, I'm all for reinterpretation. You mentioned Wolverine - well, every new writer on a comics title does just that. If we simply dismiss reinterpretation, we never would have had Alan Moore's work on Swamp Thing - which even if you're not familiar with it, paved the way for things like Neil Gaiman's Sandman. And Sandman has had repercussions far outside the field of comics. Without reinterpretation we never would have had Frank Miller's work on Batman - also hugely seminal (and also ultimately responsible for Batman Begins).
And that's in one relatively minor field. If I wanted to get really into it I could start talking about the influence of Sherlock Holmes pastiches and Cthulu Mythos fiction. Short version: if you don't care for fanfic, fine, but at its roots it doesn't deserve to be disparaged out of hand.
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Date: 2007-05-07 07:25 pm (UTC)And that's in one relatively minor field. If I wanted to get really into it I could start talking about the influence of Sherlock Holmes pastiches and Cthulu Mythos fiction. Short version: if you don't care for fanfic, fine, but at its roots it doesn't deserve to be disparaged out of hand.