Lol, to each their own. I just never understood the rave reviews of Genndy Tartakovsky and his shows. The art seems cheap to me, and there's hardly any dialogue at all. The star wars clone wars "series" were short 1-2 minute clips each. I couldn't stand them.

My friends and me created something which we may call fan-fic during our PBEM Age of Wonders games. We usually attached a small journal entry while sending a turn to a next player. At the beginning it was just one sentence about what happened in this turn but later on it developed and we really started to write journals. Those entries usually have little in common with an actual game - for example we make up what happened during the battle or in the camp, describe quarrels between our troops and stuff like that. After the game we have seven journals describing more or less the same but from entire different perspective. Some of those were really great. When we shared them with other people most of them were able to recognize the game they were based on even though there were a lot of things which you cannot do in AoW (like spying missions)

Well I've heard that 50 Shades of Gray crap started out as Twilight Fanfic.

As for quality or awe-inspiring work I can't think of any. But then again anything that started out as a fanfic would probably remove the parts that would be infringing on the copyright at that point. So who knows, there may be a few high-profile ones that no one realized started out as a derivative work.

As for my opinion on fanfic?

Total crap, I don't even consider it legitimate, it is inherently inferior yadda yadda yadda you've heard it all before.

As mentionned in another thread, stumbled upon this. DrMcNinja and DinosaurComics join forces for a Galaga fan-comic.

For some reason, I expect this news to completely change people's opinions on fanfictions. Both ways.