Re: Repurposed fiction (was Re: A Plague of Laumers)

In article <drohb3$o7j$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Chuk Goodin <cgoodin@xxxxxx> wrote:
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>On 31 Jan 2006 10:12:01 -0800, "Dr. Dave" <dtate@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>Attempted cross-medium example: IIRC, "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles"
>>was an edgy cult comic, which suddenly and inexplicably became a mass
>>pre-teen craze with dumbed-down TV series, merchandise, derivative
>>fiction, etc. If I'm right about what the original comic was like,
>>this would illustrate the kind of thing I'm looking for -- except I
>>want examples where it was all text medium.
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>It was a role-playing game before it was a TV show, and the original
>comics were almost like a parody, except played straight. But yeah, I get
>what you're looking for here, but I can't think of any examples right now.
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>chuk

As I recall, the original TNMT was a parody of what Frank Miller was doing
at the time in _Daredevil_. Therefore you had "The Foot clan" rather
than "The Hand", and "Splinter" as the mentor rather than "Stick".

I wonder if the kids who grew up on TNMT and saw the Daredevil movie
thought _it_ was doing the ripping-off.

So Frank Miller angst and grit repurposed as parody of same repurposed
as a kids' show...


Ted
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