Talk:The Big Blow-Out!/@comment-25892079-20180328214240/@comment-995426-20180908225602

Wingnut II: He can write the story he wants to write, even if long hiatuses are involved and it takes decades to complete it. But oftentimes, when you have established fanbases becoming an audience of new material after a long time, a lot of Fan Dumb can set in, and I think it's something we as fans are all at least a little guilty of from time to time. Fans feeling like the story they've been reading must exist to please their expectations, or potentially worse, complaining that it's wrecking their childhoods (especially for a comic that was never for children). It is not to say that Peter Laird is a good and perfect writer, or that his creations are beyond criticism, because he's not always a perfect writer and there's much valid criticism of what he creates. But his project was still his, and I think a lot of people never really respected him as a creator when they were treating his TMNT like an aberration and, by extension, telling him he had no business writing for something he himself had co-created. I mean, I may not like the immature, ultra-gory Bodycount, but I'd hardly tell its writer Kevin Eastman that his work is an aberration&mdash;rather, it was actually more accurate of what Eastman typically creates when he doesn't have Peter Laird or Bobby Curnow or Tom Waltz counterbalancing him. And just as true, Peter Laird was at one time counterbalanced by Kevin Eastman. And Laird tried to keep going without Eastman's involvement or input, and I have to respect the attempts he made, however odd they may have seemed to readers.