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Post by dans on Aug 1, 2022 0:31:08 GMT
I obviously can't speak as a young reader any longer, but I have read a lot of public domain comic stories, including the ones that are supposed to be among the better written, and I usually find that most of the stories don't really makes sense all the way through. And certainly there is often a lack of consistency between stories in different issues, or even in multiple stories about the same character in the same issue. I guess readers were a lot more gosh-wow! back then... I am trying to adapt a Mirror Man story right now, and it is taking a LOT of rewriting to make it make sense and actually have the characters act like real people...
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Post by redsycorax on Aug 1, 2022 0:41:09 GMT
Yes, that's perfectly true, dans, and it isn't just public domain figures either. They were originally intended for children aged from about seven to adolescence, and therefore, there are probably plot loopholes as regards plausible heroic origin stories or their absence, motivation for their actions, relationships with other protagonists, and cause and effect, as well as inferential jumps or rampant exaggeration as to the scale of their abilities or otherwise. Added to which, social norms have changed too and what might have been excused or considered 'permissible' is decidedly not so these days. Which is what I found writing my Captain Nippon and Horned Owl stories. As a writer, you are perfectly entitled to remedy those plot holes, oversights and lack of detail in the original story, as well as adjust it to fit contemporary moral norms if you deem it necessary.
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