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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Sol System: [QB] To sum up: a cartoon show? I don't mean to be dismissive. I love me some cartoon shows. But I guess linking that notion to the various derivative works currently in existence trips me up. Like, without going too far down a (fruitless) road of aesthetic theorizing, I'll say that a key feature of tie-in works is that they are wholly constrained by an exterior set of storytelling priorities. Well, OK, so what? What story isn't told within limits that are exterior to the story itself? (The physical framing of the picture, for instance, in TV and film. The rules of a genre. Etc.) But in this case I think those limits are more specific in ways that tend to have adverse creative effects. Or, rather, can sort of. . . well, the more specific your story the smaller your pool of potentially enthusiastic audience members gets. None of which really has much to do with your point, I don't think, which would seem to be "Why not cull good ideas from the looser frameworks available to extra-televisual sources?" I guess I'm sort of inexplicably skeptical about whether those frameworks are in fact looser, in the sense of what kinds of stories can be tossed around. On the other hand, I think this describes almost exactly the relationship between Time Warner and its wholly owned subsidiary DC Comics, and the one Marvel would like to have with Hollywood in general, that is, as a content farm where ideas can be incubated before being transferred to a medium that actually, you know, matters. (Take that, comics!) [Marvel, of course, lacks a corporate sugardaddy, though I recall Sony making noises in the past.] [[And one problem with this business model is that, at least lately, while Marvel has had by far the most success at this sort of thing, it has failed to generate any new media icons since the 1970s. I mean, I think the new X-Men - which is to say Storm and Nightcrawler and Wolverine, or in other words the Clairemont Giant-Sized and beyond X-Men - are the most recent Marvel characters that anyone has ever heard of or would care to make an action movie about. Although it appears that Elektra first showed up in Daredevil in 1981, so maybe we should modify that to "that anyone would care to see in an action movie." Contrast this with DC who, not having to worry so much about profitability, have been able to expand into some markets otherwise unplumbed [[[Vertigo]]] yielding a few successs. [[[Sandman, for instance, or, more relevant to my point, though I guess there is a Death movie in the works, Hellblazer, though I doubt Constantine will be a success by most measures, but even a terrible movie will bring in way more cash than the comic probably ever has.]]]]] Well, that got out of hand quickly. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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