For me, especially with certain franchises and their creators, my belief is that once the art is out there, it's not theirs anyway. And we see this everyday when people make art or fanfic or cosplay or they explain why something is important to them, even if that's not even what it was meant to in the original medium.
It's what the people took away and how it reinforced their life. So even if the Creator is a s*******, it's too late.
But I know that's very contentious among other people, especially with things like Rowling. But what do you want. Those lives were changed two or three decades ago at this point. You cannot support it going forward. And maybe you decide you don't want to revisit movies and books.
God knows I went through it with Gaiman. I'm still terrified to be like I like these books in public.
But I think to hold that standard for everybody else is where you lose people as I've talked about in the political thread.
Anyway the toys. Yeah it's shady. I'm sure there's all kinds of shady stuff. I need to eke out the happiness I can, and I don't see anyone else giving me Red Sonja. Other people are giving me Conan, but this one looks like you can actually play with it.
www.toyark.com
