During our recent trip to Nerdtacular, many excellent discussions were had (the majority of which seemed to start with variations of “Um, actually…”) One of the more fascinating was a discussion of what bits of pop culture we would follow anywhere, regardless of the specifics. It took Paul Levitz consciously ejecting all of Geoff Johns’ cool new Legion of Super-Heroes reboot ideas in order for me to stop reading that book, but I still found myself excited for the recent LSH appearances in Justice League United. I will buy any comic featuring DC’s sorta-obscure Nightmaster, the pencils of Alan Davis or the writing of Kurt Busiek, but don’t understand when my friend wants to watch any television program featuring a Buffy/Firefly alumnus, leading us to today’s unwavering query…
The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) tends to skew towards the characters, but there are certain creators/actors whom I will follow anywhere their muse takes them, asking: When it comes to the pop culture you follow, which is a bigger draw: Creator Or Property?
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Creator, more than the property, but the story itself plays big for me. I always thought I’d follow Charles Soule to the ends of the earth, and that proved to be a pretty rewarding policy for me, between his Marvel and DC stuff – but for some reason Letter 44 wasn’t all that great for me. I’m not saying it’s bad, I just seem to have a pretty strong aversion to space stories.
Neither really. I like what I like and don’t like what I don’t like, regardless of creator or property. I mean, I am a HUGE Green Lantern fan, but I still didn’t care for the live action movie. Similarly, I loved Buffy and Firefly, but I didn’t much care for Whedon’s show Dollhouse. And where I generally dislike franchise-based novel series, I was a HUGE fan of the Star Wars Expanded Universe novels.
So if a creator or property I enjoy puts out a great story, then that is just a bonus. If they don’t, then no big loss and I can just skip it.
Property is what usually draws me in, no matter how wonderful creator is, I just cant bring myself to be interested in certain genres/premises. However, it takes a good creator to keep me on board because my interests tend to go in cycles.