The reasons I read most of these comics is because of the characters. The have incredibly well defined personalities. A good writer, in my humble opinon, should let these characters, essentially, ‘speak’ for themselves. In an attempt at making fanscripts, I’ve found that the characters with well-defined personalities, wrote themselves. As a writer, a could control the situation, but I could not control the character’s reaction to the situation. That’s how well defined they were to me.

Brad Meltzer, however, IS trying to control the characters. He’s not letting the character be themselves; he’s just putting words in their mouth. As far as I’m concerned, if you can’t or don’t let these characters write themselves, you eithier are not a good writer of American superhero comics, or you just don’t care about the character.

Really, these american superhero are a paid form of fanfiction (which is the only fiction I can do, which is why I want to work for DC/Marvel one day despite their stupidity), and the worst fanfiction are the one where the author tries to control too much. The best fanfictions are when the author sets up a situation and just describes what happens.

I really do want to write DC superheroes someday, but I’m worried that it will just be interpreted as fanwank.

But again, that was two months ago; maybe she’s done some research since then.

It is that some of the creators seem to have this skewed rememberence of a past story that they base the new story entirely on. Yet their memory is so skewed it makes no sense to anyone who doesn’t see thing as they did.

BTW, I hope you do start enjoying the LSH Adventure book, since it looks like Teen Titans Go will be canceled soon.