Aren't comic books fanfiction at this point?

Nah, the other user's right. By definition, including legal, fanfiction is unofficial, and not affiliated with the rights holders, or IP creator. McFarlane-Michelenie Spidey isn't fanfiction, it's continuation. Some literally who doing a webcomic without legal agreements on whogivesafuck.com is writing fanfiction.

Yep. Once the movies came and the heroes became mainstream normie-bait, the comics are basically just PR loss-leaders. That's why they can be shit and infused with obnoxious politics.
>They're not -supposed- to be good anymore

>Aren't comic books fanfiction at this point?
Some pretty much are, yes. But then you get someone like Bendis who's clearly anything BUT a fanboi of the characters he's writing which is just as bad if not worse.

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Yes because movies have replaced comic books, reducing them to fan fiction at this point. The only real Marvel Universe you see now is the one up on screen. Everything else you've ever read about has either never happened or has simply ceased to exist. Comic industry is dead.

Those are literally official. You have decided they are not canon. They are not fan fic.

Just glorified fanfiction. Like others said if it's official it can't be literally fanfiction although it can be treated as such

Fanfiction is usually correlated with something that could never happen in the actual series, so no.

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Yeah, just monetized fanfiction. Doesn't mean it's bad though
This is wrong

official doesn't mean it's not fanfiction. Fan fiction is just works that have characters or settings from other people's works. Literally no part of that definition excludes things made with legal permission.
And canon, likewise, has nothing to do with the original creator or rights to the series. Canon has to do with the generally accepted parts of the story, because it comes from the study of older mythology and literature. Lots of parts of the canon of King Arthur were written hundreds of years after the origin of the story, but are accept as part of the canon due to their ubiquity.
And because this is true, the inverse must also be true, things can be non-canon because they are generally not accepted as such

>official doesn't mean it's not fanfiction
It kinda does.
Because of the "fiction" part.

Do you know what fiction means? It's all fiction, literally none of it is not fiction. Even most of the stuff that calls itself non-fiction is mostly fictional

I know it's fiction because it didn't take place in OUR world.
But the "fiction" part of fanfiction means it didn't take place in the canon of the story.

idiot

>But the "fiction" part of fanfiction means it didn't take place in the canon of the story.
That's just completely wrong.

Well, that's the term, so you'll have to deal with it being "wrong"

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>Well, that's the term
In your imagination

No, it...
It IS the term. It will BE the term after your death.

Delusional

Says the person literally denying a fact of reality.

every story has already been told, therefore every story from here on out is fan fiction.

>fanfiction doesn't mean fanfiction it means fancanon

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I argued the exact opposite of that.
Notice the word "didn't".
Learn to understand words and sentences, dumbass.

He says while not understanding I'm making fun of that exact thing

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>I'm supposed to understand that from text alone.

Yes like fourth or fifth generation fan fiction.

No because the people writing them aren't fans or even like comics