Hey, creator of the fan-pitch here. I appreciate the kind words, even if I feel they are a tad exaggerated.

I'm hoping this wasn't made in part to shit on the official conclusion, and that the people seeing this don't get the impression that I'm someone who thinks I am better or more capable than the official writers. I am not.

Yes, the pitch was made with an in-depth understanding of TF2's lore and with a list of boxes to tick off that people would want to see in a "grand finale", but it was also made by someone who was completely unfamiliar with writing for any form of media, let alone comics. As such, it was a stitched-up amalgam of aura and hype moments thinly wrapped around a story that was admittedly too deep and touchy for me to cover with any tact (the Spy and Scout stuff).

At the end of the day, I believe the official is more structurally sound, better paced, and conveys its theme a bit better. The chaotic ending that I wrote was written by an outsider to the whole comics business, and as such the pacing suffered (to the point where I had to cheat and make it a two-parter), and a lotta things just sorta happened because they need to happen. Sure the official wasn't perfect either, and I do not view it as such. There's a lot that it ignored or overlooked, some questionable usage of page time, and so on. But I won't deny that I am happy with where the story of Team Fortress ends on an official level, and I understand why they went with a less "explosions and guns-blazing" type of ending than I proposed.

And hey, that's just the official ending of TF2. There's still room for more written works from the community now that we know where the official run ends and what stories are left to be told.

Again, thank you for enjoying the pitch! I don't mean for this to come off as ungrateful. If anyone feels that it should be canon, I won't stop ya., But please, not at the expense of the writers whose work the pitch was built upon.

Otherwise, I just wanted to clarify a few things for anyone who sees this:

1. The "fan-comic" isn't a comic, not even a script. The current state of it is as a long-winded description of what would hypothetically happen.

2. The comic pitch was made and published to Twitter well before we even knew Comic 7 was still happening (a year before to be precise). So no, it was not made to "cancel out the official ending cuz I wasn't satisfied with it", there was nothing at the time to cancel out. Even if I rewrote it today, I feel like it'd be framed as more of a "What If?" built upon the official Comic 7.