Sorry if that question comes off as rude, I mean it genuinely.
So about a month ago I finally bothered to catch up on HSBC since the 3-ish(?) year pause, and I actually ended up having more positive feelings towards it that I originally thought I would. This, combined with the fairly recent (at least, recent-feeling to me) surge of positivity towards the Epilogues has kind of had me reflecting on my feelings towards them the past couple weeks.
I think I've always enjoyed the broad, abstract idea of them, the whole "tales of dubious authenticity" thing: they're as "canon" as anything you could come up with.
My biggest point of struggle with them though is the characters. I know probably like every single Epilogues fan just groaned at that sentence, and I'm sorry! ...But it's still true for me. There's definitely a handful of character arcs I can get behind like John's depression, but others just don't do it for me. I think Ult Dirk is a cool concept (and cool design), and I get the literal reasoning as to why he's a villain; combining all splinters of Dirk includes Bro and Lil Cal, which by extension includes Caliborn and LE. It just ultimately ends up feeling like a complete backtrack of his arc in the original comic, but maybe that's a bad way to view it? There's also Jane, which... I don't even know what happened there to be honest.
To stop myself from rambling on any longer I'll end this post off with my question once again. What do you enjoy about the Epilogues, and 'Post-Canon' in general? do people like everything in the epilogues? Just certain parts? Maybe some people just hate the Epilogues and only enjoy HSBC, or vice-versa. I'm not expecting someone's reply to completely change my mind and I'll suddenly love the Epilogues, but I'd rather able to at least appreciate what some people enjoy about them, rather than just ignore them forever...
