Holy !@#$, Disney buys Marvel Comics???

[C.E. Evans]

One possible benefit of this is that the CrossGen material Disney bought up might come back into print via Marvel, either as part of the Marvel multiverse or a separate imprint.

Yeah, I was thinking about the fact that Disney already owns the defunct CrossGen Comics' stable of characters as a result of their securing the rights to Abadazad, and that they really haven't done anything with them other than give Checker permission to reprint the various trade collections. And while I would love to see quite a few those CrossGen properties return as a separate imprint (ala D.C.'s Wildstorm Universe), that might be just wishful thinking on my part.

I would imagine Marvel will take over the Disney comicbook licenses in a few years when the Boom! Studios contracts expire.

I could see that happening, but Disney may be so frikkin' huge that it may have no problems letting Boom! continue what it's doing alongside the House of M and keep them as separate properties...

 

[captcalhoun]

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[C.E. Evans]

WRONG! TOTALLY WRONG!
vvv

 

[Aragorn]

 

[captcalhoun]

^^^
WRONG! TOTALLY WRONG!

what?

 

[Roshi]

What are referring to, Hermiod? My memory needs refreshing.

Spoiler: I suppose this is a bit pointless but I'll spoiler tag it anyway

Sayid shot the young Ben in Lost, which airs on ABC.

Oh yes, that's right!

 

[C.E. Evans]

^^^
WRONG! TOTALLY WRONG!

what?

I was actually referring to the photo of Donald Duck with the Punisher emblem.

I don't know how my post wound up above it though unless it was deleted and reposted after mine or I saw it through a timewarp...

 

[Teelie]

It's quite a surprise that they did it but I don't see Disney doing anything too radical. If they do then they'll burn their Marvel fanbase in the process and be duly punished for it.

 

[Ward Fowler]

I want a Jonas Brothers graphic novel!

On a concert tour the brothers are exposed to radioactive material which gives them powers!

Like what, the sudden ability to sing?

 

[Dusty Ayres]

Meh, outside of the superhero comics of Marvel and Dc, most indie comics are nothing more than a collection of badly written, badly drawn stuff that focuses on sex, uber violence or a plot point the creators think is "high art" or some other pretentious wording.

Not exactly all of them: Dark Horse does some great work that isn't superhero stuff with it's licensed titles (Star Wars, Aliens, Predator, Robocop, The Terminator) as well as IDG with its licensed stuff (Star Trek, Doctor Who, Galaxy Quest), and both companies do some great original work as well. But yeah, you're right, most of the independent stuff from companies like Fantagraphics Books is what you said it is-supposedly adult stuff that's chock full of 'sex, uber violence or a plot point the creators think is "high art" or some other pretentious wording' (titles like Ghost World, Hate and Love and Rockets come to mind., as well as the works of Robert Crumb.) And this work is the kind that gets banned, censored, and it's creators arrested, tried and sentenced to jail, requiring the assistance of organizations like the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund to help them out when parents bitch that their kids bought a 'dirty book' from the local store.

Regarding the CBLDF and censorship, I myself have no problems with these books, and I even like some of them, but I wish that they would be sold at alternative independent bookstores where kids don't usually go, like they used to be back in the '60's and '70's, and not at general comic book stores. I also wish that they would consider online publishing of such works like Mike Diana's instead of publishing offline (companies like MTJ Publishing come to mind.)

I think the Tweedle Dee / Tweedle Dum arguments, about which political party composed of rich men and paid for by rich men is ultimately to blame for Everything Bad in the Universe, properly belongs in TNZ.

No, this is a legitimate media concern, and it belongs here in a media forum. In fact, it's what I've been saying all along; Americans and Canadians both need to pressure our governments to start busting up these media trusts, and bust them up hard. Before all we have is just crap entertainment, and before there's a collapse of the media industry in the USA-because mark my words, it will happen-it did before, and it will again.

 

[BrotherBenny]

Dusty, are you expecting Disney to become so large that it becomes the only entertainment creator/distributor in the world?

I'd like to know what will happen to the Marvel novel licence. Marvel didn't renew it with Pocket Books, but since Disney own a publishing company or two, is it likely that they will start up a tie-in line for that purpose?

 

[Dusty Ayres]

Dusty, are you expecting Disney to become so large that it becomes the only entertainment creator/distributor in the world?

Most of these companies already have; look at the music industry. Once there were 7 or 8 players, now there's only four or five (Warner Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment [formerly Sony Music, then it acquired BMG, making it Sony/BMG until BMG got itself out] EMI [which would have been Warner/EMI or EMI/Warner until the EU said no] and Universal Music Group, all owning companies like Motown, A&M, Capitol, Mercury, etc. as imprints rather than the separate music companies they were-and making crap because of it. Only the independents make good music, and they are crowded out of radio and TV by the major's dominance of most media, which is vertically owned. That's why we have downloading of music, among other things the majors say are causing the music industry to have low sales. Trust-busting will make things better , as it did before in some other cases early last century.

I'd like to know what will happen to the Marvel novel license. Marvel didn't renew it with Pocket Books, but since Disney own a publishing company or two, is it likely that they will start up a tie-in line for that purpose?

Most of these novels are inferior to graphic novels, anyway, so that might not be missed-I know I won't miss it.

 

[Lookingglassman]

I hope they dont ruin it!

 

[DarthPipes]

Interesting. Hopefully Disney doesn't fuck up the comics or the upcoming movie plans.

Somehow, I'm picturing Mickey and Wolverine...

 

[Mr. Adventure]

Toon Disney has been playing a lot of Marvel lately, foreshadowing?

Maybe we'll see the big Marvel/Disney vs the DC/Bugs BunnyCartoonNetworkHannaBarbera crossover event.

 

[Samurai8472]

The sky is falling, the sky is falling, it's all over, the world is ending the world is ending, it's all over, it's all over!

DC has been bought out by AOL-Time Warner! THEY ARE GOING TO RUIN IT ALL! It's going to be a boring Superman is who is just super patrotic and selling AOL bumper stickers and telling kids to clean up the planet! Batman is going to be all silly and wear bright blue and Joker will just pull boners left and right!
Wonder Woman isn't going to fight midgets and join the U.S. Air Force and not be Greek any more!
Green Lantern will be ruined because they replace all of them with a talking dog or squirrels or chipmonks!
All the cartoons will be crap because Turner will make them stupid funny laughable Looney Toons and Captain Planets and DIC will somehow get involved!
The Justice Leauge will be on WCW and lose against Goldberg!
IT"S ALL OVER THE WORLD IS ENDING IT ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVVVVVVVVVVVVVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRR
The cow goes moo, but does the moo go cow?
Oh woe to all of us, it am ruined for good.

Or we could just wait and see how it all turns out, as most of Marvel will remain running itself (much like Pixar did when it was bought), Disney has had succesful comics all on it's own (go read Scrooge McDuck's books), and the deals with FOX, Sony, Activison, Pani, and others are staying the same for several more years at least as they have to honour old contracts.
Who knows, it could turn out you will like the new Marvel, mostly made out of the old Marvel, old Disney and Marvel productions will be released and re-released, old and great Disney comics will get re-released, and we get better Marvel cartoons out of the deal. You don't know until it happens, so stop running around like you are Chicken Little.

 

[LaxScrutiny]

Well, I guess this means we won't get to see Blob munching on the Wasp's bones in the Avengers movie.

 

[Dar70]

Its not a big deal guys. If anything this deal will make Marvel stronger.

 

[Derishton]

I think the Tweedle Dee / Tweedle Dum arguments, about which political party composed of rich men and paid for by rich men is ultimately to blame for Everything Bad in the Universe, properly belongs in TNZ.

No, this is a legitimate media concern, and it belongs here in a media forum. In fact, it's what I've been saying all along; Americans and Canadians both need to pressure our governments to start busting up these media trusts, and bust them up hard. Before all we have is just crap entertainment, and before there's a collapse of the media industry in the USA-because mark my words, it will happen-it did before, and it will again.

I agree. I just don't think the partisan stuff (a) has any bearing on the legitimate media monopoly concerns; and (b) any business being in the Sci fi/Fantasy forum. If the conversation was about the problem and not whether Reagan or Barney Frank is the biggest boogeyman, I wouldn't have said anything.

 

[Dusty Ayres]

The sky is falling, the sky is falling, it's all over, the world is ending the world is ending, it's all over, it's all over!

DC has been bought out by AOL-Time Warner! THEY ARE GOING TO RUIN IT ALL! It's going to be a boring Superman is who is just super patrotic and selling AOL bumper stickers and telling kids to clean up the planet! Batman is going to be all silly and wear bright blue and Joker will just pull boners left and right!
Wonder Woman isn't going to fight midgets and join the U.S. Air Force and not be Greek any more!
Green Lantern will be ruined because they replace all of them with a talking dog or squirrels or chipmonks!
All the cartoons will be crap because Turner will make them stupid funny laughable Looney Toons and Captain Planets and DIC will somehow get involved!
The Justice Leauge will be on WCW and lose against Goldberg!
IT"S ALL OVER THE WORLD IS ENDING IT ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVVVVVVVVVVVVVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRR
The cow goes moo, but does the moo go cow?
Oh woe to all of us, it am ruined for good.

Or we could just wait and see how it all turns out, as most of Marvel will remain running itself (much like Pixar did when it was bought), Disney has had succesful comics all on it's own (go read Scrooge McDuck's books), and the deals with FOX, Sony, Activison, Pani, and others are staying the same for several more years at least as they have to honour old contracts.
Who knows, it could turn out you will like the new Marvel, mostly made out of the old Marvel, old Disney and Marvel productions will be released and re-released, old and great Disney comics will get re-released, and we get better Marvel cartoons out of the deal. You don't know until it happens, so stop running around like you are Chicken Little.

Maybe you're right after all-I hope so.