Weekly Digimon Comic: Digimon Tamers - page 0.5
Added 2024-02-29 02:06:47 +0000 UTCWHOA! What is this madness? It's what happens when I'm genuinely excited about a project I've wanted to start for a while, THAT'S what! Don't worry, I'm not gonna burn myself out trying to crank pages out ever twelve hours like this any longer, but I WILL try to get more than one page done next week. And seeing as how we got all this content out and I still haven't REALLY even talked about the first episode specifically yet, that shouldn't be too hard.
But yeah, Digimon was my first experience actively plugged in to a fandom, as in directly interacting with a community at large as the franchise was active and popular. Unfortunately, that mean it was ALSO my first experience with fandom drama, and it was a bit deflating to watch whole chunks of the community that'd built up around seasons one and two crumble away because they just didn't like Tamers. I spent most of my childhood consuming media that hadn't been popular for decades by the time I got it, so this sort of real-time flame out was new to me. And sadly, it was far from the last one I'd witness. It was especially unfortunately for Tamers, though, since the implosion of Saban and Fox Kids meant there wasn't anywhere near enough promotion to draw in new viewers to replace the ones who were rage quitting. But that's something we'll presumably get into later.
Also, just to be clear, it genuinely WAS a frequent complaint that the lore people had built up around their fan characters based on the previous shows wasn't compatible with the new setting. And that's especially ironic giving something we'll get into much sooner!
