Thread:Zakor1138/@comment-995426-20160702031939/@comment-995426-20160702041101

Even if you find the 1987 series mocking to be alienating, my point is that there are crucial historic and fan culture reasons it's not necessarily going to go away. It became a part of the landscape decades ago. Now that Mirage itself is no longer publishing, and now that IDW doesn't necessarily take the same approach (in part because Viacom controls the licensing environment now), the impetus to mock the 1987 TV series no longer necessarily goes to the very top. Hell, when IDW reprints Mirage comics, every book carries a disclaimer that the works were for adults and do not reflect the current values of Viacom or IDW. But when we're discussing past works Mirage has been involved in producing, there's a historical relevance as well as a relevance to people today who were fans of it.