I’m going to make this simple because there’s not much to it. If a movie or TV show isn’t being continued in either of those forms but instead is being continued in comic book form. I don’t care about it and I don’t count it as canon.

I don’t know why I have that bias. I love Marvel and DC and other kinds of graphic novels. If it’s an adaption from a comic or graphic novel then I’ll go see it. It might be because it doesn’t feel like it’s done out of love? But just so that the company can hold onto the license of the property. I read one volume of the Firefly comic series and I liked it okay. But I just couldn’t get into the rest of it.

I think it might have to also do with the fact that comic books’ authors change between runs. Without the consistency of a filmmaker that might have made the movie or show, it feels like there’s less of a steady hand on the wheel.

Maybe it has to do with how long the series has been going on for. I love the Star Wars expanded universe novels but that series has been going on for the better part of five decades. Marvel and DC have been going on for even longer. Maybe because the franchise has already been passed hands so many times and proven itself, that shows that I can trust what is happening.

I have a thing I do with really popular shows. I don’t bother watching until I know the ending is good. I did this with Lost and was happy that I missed out on getting invested with that dogshit ending. I didn’t follow my own rules and got my heart broken by Game of Thrones. (Why did you have to do that to Dany, guys? Who the fuck thought Bran being the king was a good idea?).

These are just some random thoughts I’ve had about this topic. Thank you for joining me on this journey.