Has anyone else been noticing the younger fans for comics (yes they exist, they got into comics through piracy during the pandemic and tend to be ESLs) are much bigger advocates for adaptation accuracy than older fans these days? They're much more critical toward the DCAU's portrayals even and outright credit it to damaging certain character's reputations
I have not seen that trend. The younger fans of comics I've seen prefer things like Heavy Metal, Doomsday Clock, and whatever the latest Tom King project is. It's actually quite frustrating how they seem to latch on to a certain characterization or bastardization of a character just because it is the "newest."
>>474601 Huh, I guess I'm just speaking out of observation on twitter It's always shocking seeing people a decade younger than me know all about obscure silver age characters and talking about Post-Crisis and John Byrne ruining Superman or whatever. The people most critical toward the DCAU that I'm seeing tend to be Wonder Woman and Superman fans That said the twitter zoomers fucking love EMH though
>>474571 Not sure if it has anything to do with age. DCAU was many people's introduction to the characters, and when they got a chance to read their appearances for real they could see that many were adapted in a distilled way.
>>474571 Young people tend to have dumb and rigid opinions. As you grow older you tend to learn through experience that adapting things actually requires and benefits from changes.
People who act like religious zealots about “faithfully” adapting things always lack awareness of all the things they enjoy that are adaptations and radically changed things.
