>>104375621>1) comic fans and sport fans seldom overlapIsn't this an old jocks vs geeks assumption?
>2) why would you read about sports when you can watch or play sports? Reading will never be as funBecause storytelling, narrative devices, you know those exhilarating moments in watching sports? Well here you can manufacture them, give them proper setup and make those moments a big payoff, rather than a happenstance. Look at basketball and buzzer beaters: quite often in real life the buildup to it is seen as anecdotal, but in a narrative format you can put emphasis on why team X goes on a run and how team Y has to dig itself out of a hole before the buzzer beater payoff.
>3) ad onto point 2, real sports provides more interesting storylines than fiction ever couldNo, there's a reason Rocky is more famous than any actual boxer, despite Ali being one the biggest personalities ever in sports. And even when they are interesting these days they're burried in the 24h news cycle where you only pay attention to the highlights but fail to really understand the narrative between the highs. It's not helping that athletes have to do PR and thus we can't be privy of their real inner thoughts and struggles, contrary to what could happen in fiction.
Fucking hell the entire premise of the WWE is sports fiction and that makes ridiculous amounts of money.
