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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Remathilis" data-source="post: 9735040" data-attributes="member: 7635">You realize some of the best art is also made not by the original artist, but by those who came later and reinterpreted it? What would the X-Men look like if only Stan Lee and Jack Kirby were allowed to write them? No Clairemont to introduce Wolverine, Storm, Kitty Pride, Nightcrawler, etc? No Phoenix Saga, no Inferno, no Days of Futures Past? What does the modern comic book industry look like without Frank Miller taking the goofy blue-amd-gray bat hero with the gadgets and boy sidekick and reinterpret him as The Dark Knight Returns? His goofy circus-themed bank robber nemesis redefined by Alan Moore's The Killing Joke? You'd still have Superdickery level stories without that ability to modify and adapt.Do you like Jimi Hendrix's All Along the Watchtower or should that song only be performed by Bob Dylan? Ike and Tina's Proud Mary or only CCRs original? What about James Bond movies not based on Ian Fleming (or even those that were, go read the original Casino Royale and tell me Bond is a hero)? Spinoff media like the Thrawn Trilogy? Hell, should Star Trek Deep Space Nine ever been made since Roddenberry wasn't involved with it?Art is made to be remixed and remade. Purity is only a concern for chemistry. Great art stands on the shoulders of giants and failures alike. Originality is always appreciated, but humans also crave the familiar. Old friends in New clothes. If you don't like it, don't read it.</blockquote>

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