User blog comment:KillaHawke1/Fan Fiction: Cancerous plague of unoriginality or great companion?/@comment-24881871-20160513044059/@comment-24881871-20160513050611

I think it's a bit different in that case since the company still owns the copyrights to the characters and whatnot. If they hire writers and illustrators to produce comics, that's fine. But when you're just a lone wolf taking a story and trying to put your own spin on it, it's usually because you didn't like the ending or you want to "expand" an already established universe. It's superfluous at best and insulting at worst. Of course, people can still write the stuff if they want as long as they don't try to turn a profit from it. I'm just saying it's rather pointless.