TPD 341 – What if Doctor Baer’s Success Exceeds My Grip?

I was given the gift of a thought experiment via the Doctor Baer AMA form:

Indiana Jones grew much larger than its creator. How do you think you’d feel about being an artist and about Dr. Baer if it found great success and the Dr. Baer intellectual property grew beyond your control of it?

While I like to think I’d be able to let it go and see it turned into derivative works, I know I haven’t always felt this way. So I take a survey of my WHY over the last 30 years.