I think the overall concensus as to why this idea isn't liked by the general slashdot groupthink, aside from the fact that slashdot is populated by techies who have lost jobs or know people who lost jobs to people in India, is that it's not people enjoying a character that we like.
It's people completely bastardizing a character that we like, because they can't deal with it as is.
The idea here is originality. If this gothiccomics place was original, they would think up their own superheroes for their people to like, and US Comic companies would have nothing to sue over; because it is an original idea, not a cheap knock-off.
If gothiccomics was just working with Marvel to get the writes to publish translated Spider-Man comics in India, I'm sure it would be a different story. But this is more along the lines of 'Hey, we love Spider-Man, but we don't love the fact that he's American, living in New York City, saving Americans. So we're just gonna swipe the good stuff, and slap it around an Indian backdrop. It's just like what Saban did with the Power Rangers, as someone mentioned. He just bought all the fight stock footage from the original Japanese makers, and made something completely different, toeing the line of what was still the same.
Coming up next, Batman becomes a singapore prostitute who turns tricks by day and fights crime by night...
That couldn't work... Batstitute would be too busy turning tricks at night to fight crime. Although it'd be an interesting way to catch those criminals...... with their pants down!!!
Ow! ow! Hey, those tomatoes aren't tomatoes, they're bricks!!
Heh.
It's gotten to the point where I've started getting text messages on my cellphone, saying I need to call such and such a number.
Thankfully it was a toll-free number, so they were paying for it instead of me, but it was the same sort of recording, just they had the balls to make me call in and review it (Yes, I know I didn't have to call it, but I was curious.:)
heh, yeah right. Good in theory, but it wouldn't work.
The Legislators would just take the money given to them by all the lobbyists (tobacco, booze, video game makers, people against video games, gun makers, mothers against gun makers, etc), and fork it over to their kids to buy more games.
They wouldn't care if their kid snapped a brand new copy of Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow in half. They'd just get the brat a new one.
And then when their unsupervised kid goes out and buys Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, it wouldn't be the legislator in the wrong for not supervising their kid! Noooo, it'd be the game company for making it, and the Wal*Mart for selling it!
Because we all know that in America, bad parentting is never the fault of the parents, but the fault of everything else, for not being the kid's parent. But that's another rant right there.
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It's people completely bastardizing a character that we like, because they can't deal with it as is.
The idea here is originality. If this gothiccomics place was original, they would think up their own superheroes for their people to like, and US Comic companies would have nothing to sue over; because it is an original idea, not a cheap knock-off.
If gothiccomics was just working with Marvel to get the writes to publish translated Spider-Man comics in India, I'm sure it would be a different story. But this is more along the lines of 'Hey, we love Spider-Man, but we don't love the fact that he's American, living in New York City, saving Americans. So we're just gonna swipe the good stuff, and slap it around an Indian backdrop. It's just like what Saban did with the Power Rangers, as someone mentioned. He just bought all the fight stock footage from the original Japanese makers, and made something completely different, toeing the line of what was still the same.
Coming up next, Batman becomes a singapore prostitute who turns tricks by day and fights crime by night... That couldn't work... Batstitute would be too busy turning tricks at night to fight crime. Although it'd be an interesting way to catch those criminals...... with their pants down!!! Ow! ow! Hey, those tomatoes aren't tomatoes, they're bricks!!
Heh. It's gotten to the point where I've started getting text messages on my cellphone, saying I need to call such and such a number. Thankfully it was a toll-free number, so they were paying for it instead of me, but it was the same sort of recording, just they had the balls to make me call in and review it (Yes, I know I didn't have to call it, but I was curious. :)
heh, yeah right. Good in theory, but it wouldn't work. The Legislators would just take the money given to them by all the lobbyists (tobacco, booze, video game makers, people against video games, gun makers, mothers against gun makers, etc), and fork it over to their kids to buy more games. They wouldn't care if their kid snapped a brand new copy of Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow in half. They'd just get the brat a new one. And then when their unsupervised kid goes out and buys Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, it wouldn't be the legislator in the wrong for not supervising their kid! Noooo, it'd be the game company for making it, and the Wal*Mart for selling it! Because we all know that in America, bad parentting is never the fault of the parents, but the fault of everything else, for not being the kid's parent. But that's another rant right there.