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NightMareBunny posted...

That excludes indie comics which just operate however they want

Aside from my mention of the fanfic I'm writing, was there any need to mention indie comics in relation to your post I was just now referring to, or even my response itself? I find this particular response of yours to be like person A making mention of Dominos and Pizza Hut, and only those pizza chains, versus the market for dessert pies, person B replying about those two pizza companies versus dessert pies, and then person A retorts with "That excludes mom and pop pizzerias!" You're not wrong, but your post I was referring to didn't include the indie comics either, hence the focus.

NightMareBunny posted...

marvel/dc are corporate toy boxes where different teams get to handle different characters and eventually another team takes over

Always for a variety of reasons. We could go ad neuseum or ad fatigatum on each and every case, such as sales, people leaving for a myriad of reasons, et cetera, but I believe this had already been addressed in a prior post however many days (or weeks) ago in brief. Since you wish to go back to the toy box argument, let me reiterate that the toys are not always put away properly, if at all or even cleanly, and others are made to pick up and play with those same tools regardless of the blood or snot all over them, by order of the folks in control of said toy boxes. And going back to my previous response, on the subject of retcons or reboots, the folks in charge will replace those toys when they see fit and then force the next round of writers and artists to work with the new toys (and only those new toys).

NightMareBunny posted...

Lets also note that no matter how much research you do there will always be so much you dont know about Marvel/dc

Let's add to this note that one should never give up on research or understanding just because there is so much of it, or because it conflicts with their views. That said, there are such things to consider such as a scope and scale of a given conversation.

The running gag on this forum is that PO could write a multi-page thesis on anything related to "geek culture," if provoked, and, in the early days of him earning that reputation, people around here went nuts over how far and beyond PO went on writing about how wrong you are. It could be the equivalent of something being off by one pixel in PS2 era graphics, and he would let you have so many paragraphs over the minor difference. Is it ever necessary? Maybe some of the time.

Here? Meeting generalizations with 5-10 minutes' worth of Internet searching is plenty. I don't think we need an exhaustive, detailed report on the history of Marvel and DC, nor the Manga industry or eastern storytelling, to get the gist of where differences truly lie versus where some random person on the Internet thinks they might lie based on goodness-knows-what.