I'm stuck in that old fanfic question: just how well should you know canon before you can get away with writing about it?
Personally, I think that depends almost entirely on the canon.
As you know, I'm a huge canon-whore (who cares about this trivial detail that doesn't affect the story in any way? I DO, GOSHDARNIT!), but there are times when even I give up and just go "screw this, I'm making it up". Some canons are simply incompatible with canon-whore-y writing, and comics canon is the king of such canons.
Seriously, even professional writers can't get it right. That's not the exception, that's the norm. There are so many idiotic mistakes in official comics, so many I-Couldn't-Be-Arsed-To-Research-This-Stuff-For-Five-Minutes wallbangers, I really wouldn't lose any sleep over getting something wrong in fanfiction.
but we're talking a lot of Liefeld art, and there's a limit to how much I want to put my eyeballs through
And yet, Liefeld "art" is incredibly popular and well-paid. I don't get it, I just don't get it :(
Shatterstar, who finally came out of the closet lately (much to fandom's glee and Liefeld's horror)
That was so awesome, I couldn't stop giggling. I was especially amused by Liefeld's claim that Shatterstar couldn't possibly be gay because "he is a badass warrior!"
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Date: 2009-10-04 04:24 pm (UTC)Personally, I think that depends almost entirely on the canon.
As you know, I'm a huge canon-whore (who cares about this trivial detail that doesn't affect the story in any way? I DO, GOSHDARNIT!), but there are times when even I give up and just go "screw this, I'm making it up". Some canons are simply incompatible with canon-whore-y writing, and comics canon is the king of such canons.
Seriously, even professional writers can't get it right. That's not the exception, that's the norm. There are so many idiotic mistakes in official comics, so many I-Couldn't-Be-Arsed-To-Research-This-Stuff-For-Five-Minutes wallbangers, I really wouldn't lose any sleep over getting something wrong in fanfiction.
but we're talking a lot of Liefeld art, and there's a limit to how much I want to put my eyeballs through
And yet, Liefeld "art" is incredibly popular and well-paid. I don't get it, I just don't get it :(
Shatterstar, who finally came out of the closet lately (much to fandom's glee and Liefeld's horror)
That was so awesome, I couldn't stop giggling. I was especially amused by Liefeld's claim that Shatterstar couldn't possibly be gay because "he is a badass warrior!"
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