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Post by spiderwasp on Dec 17, 2008 23:18:49 GMT -5
The Hawkeye on the Young Avengers took the name to honor Hawkeye she doesn't even know that he's alive. Actually, they met in the Young Avengers specials that came out recently. Clint basically passed the baton (and bow) on to her. You know, even though I read that issue and I like Kate Bishop just fine, I just can't think of her as Hawkeye anymore than I can think of Clint as anything else. This isn't just that it's modern age instead of silver though, because I never really thought of him as Goliath either. He was always, in my mind, Hawkeye in a Goliath costume. As much as readers love Hawkeye, I don't understand why writers want to make him something else. Everything that makes him interesting just flies out the window.
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Post by goldenfist on Dec 18, 2008 17:13:30 GMT -5
Cause writers have diffrent ideas.
It's the fans who think they know the character better than the company, the writer, the artisit, and the creator.
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Post by Dr. Hank Pym on Dec 18, 2008 22:14:05 GMT -5
It's the fans who think they know the character better than the company, the writer, the artisit, and the creator. And in reality, shouldn't they? The writers might be the ones doing the writing, but it's the readers doing the spending.
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Post by goldenfist on Dec 19, 2008 10:51:16 GMT -5
The fans may spend more time reading the characters but they don't own the characters.
If the fans know the character better than the creator then the fans should try to get a job at Marvel.
I thought the topic I posted was about the new roster of the Mighty Avengers.
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Post by Tana Nile on Dec 19, 2008 11:02:04 GMT -5
I would assume that most of the writers and artists at Marvel actually were fans of some degree before they began working there. But their knowledge of the history of the characters is not necessarily absolute. I would venture to say that there are a number of us here at AA who probably have a better knowledge and understanding of many of the characters than some of the folks now working at Marvel.
The fans may not "own" the characters, but they have followed them for years, decades even, and it's reasonable for them to expect characters to behave according to established personalities. Change is not bad - when it happens naturally, when it "feels" right, it can often bring about many new and exciting story possibilities. But change that is made simply to suit a writer's story oftentimes feels abrupt or inconsistent, and I think that is what many of us dislike.
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Post by goldenfist on Dec 19, 2008 14:09:45 GMT -5
Many writers will have diffrent visions of any Marvel/DC team some will like it some will hate it but that's the way it goes with writers.
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