This one's a little old now, but still gradually racking up comments.

For those who don't know, For Better or For Worse is a comic that's been going on since the seventies, and which a lot of people have grown up with. The story's been running down for the last couple of years since its creator was planning on ending it when he contract runs out next month (she's now changed the plan to freezing the characters in time, when in the past it's always been one of the few newspaper strips that weren't). Many people have been unsatisfied by what's been happening in the strip since she started trying to tie up loose ends, especially with the plot around Elizabeth Patterson, who has in the past year given up the life she'd been building on her own to move back into her parent's home and be shoved into a relationship with a man that a lot of readers hate.

Eric Burns from Websnark has a suggestion for how to deal with the dissatisfaction people have been feeling. That suggestion being that once FOOB is time-frozen webcartoonists should continue the strip, fixing what went wrong. Just make sure to change the character names first.

At first everyone who comments likes the idea, but since that blog is read by a lot of cartoonists you can imagine that it's only a matter of time before someone shows up who doesn't like the thought of using somebody else's creation. Then we get into the arguing about things like the merits of fanfiction, whether this is a display of fannish entitlement or not (something that Eric has looked down on before), and whether lawyers can be wrong or not.

William G., one of the people most against Eric's idea, goes on to make his own post on the subject, and then another in response to an article at Comixtalk about it that's still getting comments. Then over at Damn Good Comics there's yet more discussion.