Fanfic from the Other Side
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willow_25I really meant to buy the Buffy comics. I got all excited about them existing. And then, RL got in the way.
I saw a posting in one of the forums I visit that refered to it as 'canon-fanfic', which is exactly how I feel about it. It's not true canon, because it's not on TV. Period. Although, I do confess to using the original movie as canon sometimes. But, we were talking about the comics. Joss is writing them, so they're canon. Yet, they're not. It's like Joss writing fanfic. Which I'm okay with. That's also exciting; now that he doesn't need to worry about production values, actors and their salaries, etc., he can do a lot of things with the characters that he might not have been able to do before.
All of that said...I missed the publication date of the first comic, by enough that the second is already out. And I have to say, that as far as the spoilers go, I'm dissapointed. We'll have to re-evaluate this next week, when I have a chance to read the first two comics.
When I write these entries, I like to have a point. Or, at least a begining and end point. I feel like this is just a little blurb floating in space, no relation to anything else, of no true value to the LJ community...
* Existential Crisis *
Okay, I think I'm better now. What I've been thinking about, is cross-promotion; books that spawn movies, movies that spawn TV series, or vice versa. I've never read any books based on movies or TV shows, I tend to see a lot of movies based on books I enjoyed, though. And I'm not a huge comic person, although I've seen a good 2/3 of the comics-based movies that came out in the last 5 years.
Why did I get so excited over the Buffy Comics? Because Joss is working on them. And, even if I never fully consider them canon, and even if they suck and I stop buying them at some point, that makes them worth noticing. That the creator of the Buffy-verse still has ideas and input for those characters after all this time, says a lot for the verse, the fandom, and its creators. I think it's impressive, which is why I'm gonna actually go out and buy comic books.
My ten year old self is mocking me with much glee.
I saw a posting in one of the forums I visit that refered to it as 'canon-fanfic', which is exactly how I feel about it. It's not true canon, because it's not on TV. Period. Although, I do confess to using the original movie as canon sometimes. But, we were talking about the comics. Joss is writing them, so they're canon. Yet, they're not. It's like Joss writing fanfic. Which I'm okay with. That's also exciting; now that he doesn't need to worry about production values, actors and their salaries, etc., he can do a lot of things with the characters that he might not have been able to do before.
All of that said...I missed the publication date of the first comic, by enough that the second is already out. And I have to say, that as far as the spoilers go, I'm dissapointed. We'll have to re-evaluate this next week, when I have a chance to read the first two comics.
When I write these entries, I like to have a point. Or, at least a begining and end point. I feel like this is just a little blurb floating in space, no relation to anything else, of no true value to the LJ community...
* Existential Crisis *
Okay, I think I'm better now. What I've been thinking about, is cross-promotion; books that spawn movies, movies that spawn TV series, or vice versa. I've never read any books based on movies or TV shows, I tend to see a lot of movies based on books I enjoyed, though. And I'm not a huge comic person, although I've seen a good 2/3 of the comics-based movies that came out in the last 5 years.
Why did I get so excited over the Buffy Comics? Because Joss is working on them. And, even if I never fully consider them canon, and even if they suck and I stop buying them at some point, that makes them worth noticing. That the creator of the Buffy-verse still has ideas and input for those characters after all this time, says a lot for the verse, the fandom, and its creators. I think it's impressive, which is why I'm gonna actually go out and buy comic books.
My ten year old self is mocking me with much glee.
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Date: 2007-04-11 09:43 pm (UTC)I've been thinking about this, and after giving my firm opinion that the comic is canon (because Joss says so, and it's his universe), I've come to another conclusion: Who cares? I mean, seriously -- does it really matter? Like it or don't, it's there, and I don't see how it matters whether it's included except to a few fanfic writers (like myself) who think it's important to say whether their stuff is canon based or not.
On a related note, I could totally see Joss writing fanfic.