Believe it or not, I do agree with this. Seriously.Originally Posted by danielmd06
However, you also need to accept the consequences that would inevitably follow such an action. Which many people here, either can't see or refuse to see. Read on & you'll see what I mean.
No one is being singled out & bullied here. I'm trying to keep detached from the individuals on the other side (because I really don't hate 'em at all) and appeal to them through pure reason. Well, pure reason with a bit of added passion, theatrics, hyperbole, and I might add. . .brilliant rhetoric.This is as it should be. I believe that it would be feasible to copy these or other original documents intact word for word to the Archives for the enjoyment of all without infringing upon either monetary or other percieved value, but this is a choice that the collector himself/herself should be allowed to make without undue pressure from others.
Thus, you may feel threatened if you so choose to be.
Or maybe it's just plain guilt that's hounding at some heels? I don't claim to read minds.
:applause: Beautiful statement!!! Hope no one missed that. Because this IS the entire issue's very fulcrum that I'm balancing all of this on. Again, very well said Daniel!The future of any concept is intimately entertwined with propagation and maintenance of interest in that concept,
Ouch. Please note that I myself never-ever used the "H" bomb in this thread.but I think that GI Joe will be around as long as there are those of us who love it. I don't believe that GI Joe will come crashing because of the hoarding of rare paperwork.
And you're overlooking something huge also. It's not love alone that'll keep Hasbro cranking 'em out the way they should be. This has been common knowledge for at least ten years now. And even if they do, what's to stop them from producing another "Pseudo-Joe" a-la Sgt. Savage, Extreme, Sigma-Six, '97-'98 TRU exclusives, etc.
We're in danger of arguing "pigs is pigs" here. We don't want just a popular license name to be exploited any which way, but we want to propagate the very elements that made it popular to begin with. One of those essential ingredients is Hama's original content and style of writing.
And BTW. . .when I say, "the way they should be", I'm not saying my own personal pet Joe-verse either. I'm pointing to people like Derryl D. DePriest. He was invaluable to ARAH because he read the Hama comics exhaustively, watched the toon, really got into the mythos of Joe that made the figures popular. DDD found THE GIJOE DEFIBRILLATOR and gave it all one big revival for about five years.
Now he's gone. When the next DDD comes around, will he have the base elements to revive the line in '07 or '08? Doubt it, because they'll be buried in obscurity like in '97.
Derryl knew the old saying well, "Those who fail to learn from history. . .", etc..
-PJ
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