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08-18-2009, 01:10 AM
zuludelta
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There's been a lot of discussion on the Forum about "True Fans" lately. I think it's a meaningless title, that's really only a way of saying, "I'm better than some other people on the forum." It's a little ridiculous because there's no way to really quantify it. And it's often used in a snobby and pejorative way to look down on other fans.
I think everyone has to decide what "True Fandom" means for themselves.
Never bothered to look in the "true fan" thread, the thread title struck me as the type of thing that could potentially be a lightning rod for flaming and ad hominem attacks and I try to avoid those as much as possible.
I've never really thought in-depth of my "fandom" though. I'm not even sure if I'm a "real" fan of the stand-alone GI Joe property as much as I'm a fan of military fiction on one hand, and comic books and action figures on the other. I've only really enjoyed GI Joe when expressed in a couple of formats: as comic books written by Larry Hama (or any other similarly competent and skilled writer, of which there are fewer and fewer working in non-superhero action/adventure comics these days) and as action figures based on concepts and characters that originated within Larry Hama's GI Joe work. Everything that falls outside of those two sets (such as the bulk of the post-1994 GI Joe characters, the Devil's Due Comics, etc.), I have significantly less inherent interest in. If I do express "fandom" for these newer things, it's more often than not because of the quality of the craft that went into the product (some of the new RoC figures, for example, or Christos Gage's work on the
GI Joe: Cobra
mini-series) and not because they are branded as being GI Joe properties
per se
.
I guess that makes me a "selective" GI Joe fan and not a fan of all things GI Joe, but I'd like to think that makes me as much a "true" fan as somebody who likes the GI Joe brand in all its forms.
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