nice Metroid comic! i would love to see your take on Starfox.
Thanks!
Okay so while I LOVE Star Fox and would love to do something with it, (and have done things with it sort of, more on that later) I decided not to ever touch it directly. In part of course because I'm trying to slowly move away from fanfic, but mostly because I don't think I could make a 'definitive edition'.
With Metroid I had my own unique vision for the setting and the character that I'd never seen anybody else pursue in the same directions, and I personally prefer my versions above both canon and every fanon I've read. (With the possible exception of NickOnPlanetRipple, who made an EXCELLENT comic called Metroid Revival. While I personally prefer my own work, and we went in radically different directions in terms of plot/setting/tone, I respect his work a ton). If Nintendo miraculously gave me the directorial position on some Metroid property, I could accept the position knowing that I could do a darn good job, and do something with it that nobody else could.
The same cannot be said of Star Fox. While I do have ideas for the characters, spaceships, and post-war future of the story, I don't have nearly as much to add, and I could never make my favorite version of Star Fox because the beating heart of the franchise is the characters, and Matthew Gafford already did it WAY better than I ever could with them in his youtube animated series A Fox In Space. If I dabbled in Star Fox, I would just end up comparing myself to him and I know I could never top that. If Nintendo gave me any authority over Star Fox, I couldn't accept. He deserves that job. I might be able to put my own spin on some aspects, but not all of it.
HOWEVER.
One of the original novels I'm working on is actually directly inspired by Star Fox, and by some ideas me and my brothers had about what became of the team after the war concluded. None of the characters bear much resemblance to the originals (and they're not animals), but if you squint hard enough you can sometimes see who was who before I de-fanned the fiction, and I like it so far, especially the direction I took Krystal's stand-in.
In terms of what I've done with Star Fox itself, I'm afraid all I I can give you is this, which I drew like ten years ago: