I don’t have anything intelligent to say about the Marvel+Disney thing
Or should that be Disney -$ = Disney + Marvel? See – that’s not even a passable math joke! I told you I had nothing smart to say. Now uninformed rambling – that’s something I can do!
Drawing on my vast amount of industry insider analyst drunken guesswork, I suspect that it will either be:
- really good for Marvel : better funding & distribution
- really bad: content restrictions, editorial mucking about in attempt to capitalize on certain properties
- really, really bad: one business insider comment (see here, Dan Vado’s reaction) I saw suggested shutting down the publishing wing as a possibility. Evidently Disney killed a magazine they were publishing with circulation over 200k, and no Marvel book has circulation over the low 100ks beyond very special events (death of Captain America maybe?) AFAIK.
Now, I think #1 is the most likely turn out. Because I’m a hopeful kind of guy. Also because Disney has a decent history of leaving owned properties alone to do their own thing (Miramax?). Also because you don’t buy a goddam comic company and stop making comics. WHO DOES THAT? Even if they turn out shitty comics with Mickey hugging Wolverine, they’ll still be turning out comics.
I’m thinking that Disney wants to get a lockdown on tweenage boys like they do on girls (man, I bet they wish they had Twilight! hah!). Evidently Disney has a boy targeted TV channel (I did not know this), but it mostly runs sitcoms (this probably explains why I did not know this – as the person who mentioned this said “boys don’t care about sitcoms like girls do”), with some Marvel licensed stuff. So now they’d be able to really fill the shit out of that channel with boy-targeted comic stuff. Because fabricated music-oriented-autotuner-fests just don’t do it for boys like they do for girls. Thank cultural evolution for that I guess!
I’ll take my giant robots with a helping of super-heroes please, hold the whiny blonde bitches.
well said, the humor was my favorite part, and I hope you’re right, cause #1 would be my choice for an outcome too.