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To put it in simpler terms:I suspect Simple Zack's thought processes are more erm, emotional in nature than legal. When he talks about how being able to make a public domain Superman comic would be more worthwhile than making a comic about a Superman-analogue like Plutonian, Hyperion, etc, the idea is that it's the intangible emotional ties that a reader has with Superman specifically that makes that carries its intrinsic value (as opposed to, say, the story). Sort of like how Ray Kroc saw the value in the emotional sentiment associated with the McDonalds brand in that movie Meyer likes. Specifically, the idea is that when someone looks at a Superman comic the hundreds of stories of Superman they've already read would inform and enrich the reading experience of each subsequent Superman comic, including in theory even if it is in the public domain and made by Richard C. Meyer. Feelings and aesthetics are top priority in all of Meyer's creations, whether it's capturing the feeling of being dropped into issue #300 of a breathing Bronze Age universe that Jawbreakers was going for, the "tijuana toilet comic feeling" of Iron Sights or the dayglo thing that was 499 . Y'know, as opposed to other qualities such as structure, craft, worldbuilding, originality or hard work. He may not have access to the rights to or even refer to the hundreds of Superman stories DC published, but the idea is that the customer would bring his memories of those stories when they read the work.
One problem with this is that the very act of an IP entering the public domain will likely shatter any notion of an unbroken, singular 'Superman' in the reader's mind. Another is that over the past decade DC Comics has needed no outside help with degrading the idea of a consistent single character with its constant devaluation of "continuity" between lax/non-existent editorial and constant reboots/crises. Between lax editorial and contant "Crisis" reboots. Recently, Frog recalled his dealing with former DC Comics President Dan Didio and how he "sperged out" about how it was very important that the DC Comics universe be internally consistent, a concern that Frog dismissed as stupid and an issue that "nobody cares" about and, according to Grant Morrison in a recent Substack interview, used by Scott Snyder as a wedge to stage a coup to oust Didio from his position. I can see why a creator would argue that; things like an enforced "house style" and insistence on a consistent universe all make the creator more interchangeable and subordinate to the publisher-owned intellectual property. But from the perspective of a fan I must disagree - the once-painstakingly maintained illusion that I could take a comic I have and it would inform every subsequent issue of that series I bought, or that I could go back over hundreds of back issues and each would add new context to the stories I've already read as a character passed hands from creator to creator over the decades, may have been DC Comics' most valuable property of all to offer of all.
When you were 20 you wanted to fuck that girl, but she was dating this huge asshole you hated. Then married him. Then he died and she got dementia, so you get to fuck her when she is 70 years old.
Most people would have just fucked somebody like her or someone they really liked. YBZ is not most people.