STAN LEE SELLS OUT
Sep. 1st, 2009 03:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defrogYou’ve no doubt heard the news about Disney buying Marvel.
So let’s get the obvious jokes out of the way.
Wired has nine more where that came from. The Photoshop mashups should be hitting the web shortly.
As for what any of this means for Marvel Comics, my guess would be ... you’ll barely notice the difference. At first, anyway. There’ll be more movies based on Marvel characters, perhaps, but those in-house synergies may be overrated. DC is owned by Time Warner and how many characters who aren’t Batman or Superman have made it to the big screen?
As for Evil Disney Corporate Monster eating all content until there is only the United States Of DisneyCorp or whatever, well, of course I understand yr concern. But the fact of the matter is that Disney and Marvel are more or less in the same business – i.e. creating content and related branded merchandise for profit. So I’m not sure how a merger changes the status quo in the comics landscape. (Those of you in the comics business might be able to enlighten me there.)
And while no one in their right mind (apart from teenagers, but I repeat myself) really wants the same creatures who thought up High School Musical, Hannah Montana and Jonas Brothers having editorial power over the X-Men, Pixar’s post-merger output suggests Marvel will be allowed to just get on with the business of making comics – as long as it stays profitable, of course.
And anyway, it seems disingenuous for Marvel fans to sneer at Disney for lame corporate product like HSM and Cheetah Girls when Joe Quesada green-lights projects like Marvel Divas.
Bottom line: if it results in a story where Ben Grimm pounds the snot out of the Jonas Brothers, it’s $4 billion well spent.
Deal or no deal,
This is dF
So let’s get the obvious jokes out of the way.
Wired has nine more where that came from. The Photoshop mashups should be hitting the web shortly.
As for what any of this means for Marvel Comics, my guess would be ... you’ll barely notice the difference. At first, anyway. There’ll be more movies based on Marvel characters, perhaps, but those in-house synergies may be overrated. DC is owned by Time Warner and how many characters who aren’t Batman or Superman have made it to the big screen?
As for Evil Disney Corporate Monster eating all content until there is only the United States Of DisneyCorp or whatever, well, of course I understand yr concern. But the fact of the matter is that Disney and Marvel are more or less in the same business – i.e. creating content and related branded merchandise for profit. So I’m not sure how a merger changes the status quo in the comics landscape. (Those of you in the comics business might be able to enlighten me there.)
And while no one in their right mind (apart from teenagers, but I repeat myself) really wants the same creatures who thought up High School Musical, Hannah Montana and Jonas Brothers having editorial power over the X-Men, Pixar’s post-merger output suggests Marvel will be allowed to just get on with the business of making comics – as long as it stays profitable, of course.
And anyway, it seems disingenuous for Marvel fans to sneer at Disney for lame corporate product like HSM and Cheetah Girls when Joe Quesada green-lights projects like Marvel Divas.
Bottom line: if it results in a story where Ben Grimm pounds the snot out of the Jonas Brothers, it’s $4 billion well spent.
Deal or no deal,
This is dF
