Think about it. It’s pretty true. Oh, sure, the plots are different, the genres are different and the like, but there are a lot of fundamental similarities, for sure.
This goes back to the old adage that there really are only a few stories that have ever been told–everything else are just derivatives or one or more of them.
Next: find out why Bart hates Harry Potter.
In unrelated news, most of you know that San Diego Comic-Con is this weekend. Stan and I will both be there. You can find Stan at the Squid Works booth (K-12 )in the Small Press Pavilion, and you can find me one row over in L-13 at the Action Lab Entertainment booth. Oh, I’m sure I’ll wander over to Stan and sign some books together, but if you happen to be looking for us, we’re not far apart. We’ll have all sorts of goodies for sale, and you can buy books 1-3 of the Webstrips for only $25 (save $5!). Come by, say hello, and give us a small bit of your hard-earned cash.
I know why I hate Harry Potter.
The writing is not on par with most other scifi/fantasy. But mostly it’s because everything sounds like it is named after rejected Pokemon.
Actually, I’ll be at K-14, not K-12
Heh. Yeah, it’s pretty easy to find people who only like one or two of those on the list but passionately hate the other.
you can do the same with the generic teen romance… take one outcast social misfit, add a brooding loner, give one a mysterious magical secret and/or destiny, then have everyone talk about how impossible it all is… and don’t forget the ripply muscles…
Joseph Campbell would have something to say about that. Add Homers Odyssey, to that list as the beginning of it all.
Recently there was a post on Reddit from someone who was obviously (well, hopefully) a troll – complaining that Tolkien stole all of his ideas for the LOTR trilogy from JK Rowling.
It was both an entertaining and frustrating read, ha.
Most modern English stories are based on the framework of the Arthurian legend. Once you see the frame, you can’t unsee it…