I've always been in two minds about them. On the one hand, they're a cute notion. You get to see (bad) pix of the guys who actually make comics. Also, it confirms that the New York of Marvel Comics is the actual RL New York City.
On the other hand, dragging superheroes into the real world breaks the fourth wall, or something like that. I can readily buy into the secondary world reality of superhero comics; but it's jarring to have the primary world intrude into it. Cockrum is real in our world; Jean and the others are real in their own world.
Put Cockrum into the X-Men's world, and he turns into a very weird sort of fantasy character.
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Date: 2019-03-29 05:31 pm (UTC)I've always been in two minds about them. On the one hand, they're a cute notion. You get to see (bad) pix of the guys who actually make comics. Also, it confirms that the New York of Marvel Comics is the actual RL New York City.
On the other hand, dragging superheroes into the real world breaks the fourth wall, or something like that. I can readily buy into the secondary world reality of superhero comics; but it's jarring to have the primary world intrude into it. Cockrum is real in our world; Jean and the others are real in their own world.
Put Cockrum into the X-Men's world, and he turns into a very weird sort of fantasy character.