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Old 01-01-2008, 04:45 PM   #906
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Originally Posted by koosie View Post
Ok look at this another way. Imagine you're a comic book writer who writes a lavish, complex drama ( Let's call it for example' The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen') in your own medium which you want people to read, so you have to give it to publishers who then sell your story to some drug-addled imagination-starved money-farmers who's tame scriptwriters alter the plot, add and remove characters then turn your ideas into a pile of excretement that's little more than a vehicle for some overrated bloated ego from the past.

So when you tell people that you wrote 'The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen' you know their heads are going to filled with hackneyed imagery that bears no relation to your own work. Surely that would tick you off?
I could not have said this better myself. Thank you, sir.
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