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StarSpangled posted...

Not at all, the vast majority of comic book movies only follow the source material in name only and the actual film is based on completely original content created by directors. These movies could easily be original works with original characters. They don't draw any writing inspiration from comics, they simply use their characters due to it being easier to use established characters for marketing. When people are talking about the potential success of new MCU or comic book movies they aren't talking about the writers of the original comics, nor the events of the original comics, they talk exclusively about who's directing it.

Most are heavily inspired. If directors were that creative they would have dumped/replaced the source material and characters long ago. Hell they would have been creating comicbook style movies from the beginning.

And said established characters and titles are only so due to the creative writers behind them the past decades.

In regards to discussing the movies idk about the director usually being a main talking point. Doubt most casuals could namedrop who's directors the next spiderverse movie.

StarSpangled posted...

Also, you talked earlier about free manga sites making things accessible, 1. there are free comic sites and 2. the decline comes from sales so free sites doesn't help there.

I haven't checked in many years, but when I was younger I had alot more trouble finding comicbooks online then manga. Pretty sure DC and Marvel were alot more strict with copyright. And it took them far to long to eventually create a dedicate site to purchase them digitally. And even longer for a app.