Disney to buy Marvel!

[Relique du Madde]

99% of it will be forgotten in 10 years..

That is until some future writer dregs it back up (for continualty/ character development reasons) or decides to readdress it after a BND styled retcon occurs. Hopefully some of the more ridicules story lines will stay out of the movies.

 

[Vigilance]

That is until some future writer dregs it back up (for continualty/ character development reasons) or decides to readdress it after a BND styled retcon occurs. Hopefully some of the more ridicules story lines will stay out of the movies.

You mean my dream of a Secret War II trilogy of films might never come to pass?

 

[Umbran]

The scrutiny Marvel undergoes right now is a speck when compared to what it'll see as part of Disney.

Most parents (and kids) know Spiderman and Wolverine from the cartoons, which paint a very different image from the comics.

Yes, but the fact that the company is now owned by Disney isn't going to change that. The vast majority of the parents are unaware of who owned Marvel before this, or that Disney now does. The change of ownership is not going to suddenly signal to consumers, "Whoa! Maybe we should carefully look at the other content in this line!" all of a sudden.

Change of corporate ownership happens all the time. Most often, we consumers don't know about it, and don't care. Same applies here - the bulk of consumers will not pass a single thought over the change.

 

[Klaus]

Sure, if Disney lets the comics stay in their niche market. But if Disney plans on taking over the comics distribution (now handled by Diamond... Disney has its own service) in order to make comics more accessible to the mass market, we may see, at the least, an increased attention paid to the Marvel Adventures line.

I'm not saying that Disney will "kidify" the comics, but I hope this move leads to Marvel's comics to be more... I dunno... heroic? Less hero-vs-hero and more Good vs. Evil. For decades Marvel was mature enough in their topics, but with heroes that were actually heroic (as an example, look at the Green Goblin cycle of Spiderman... you had some very dark themes there, culminating with the death of Gwen Stacy, and this was back in the 70s).

 

[coyote6]

You mean my dream of a Secret War II trilogy of films might never come to pass?

We can only hope and pray that it is so.

Edit: BTW, everyone has heard that DC is reorganizing, right? Warner is spinning off a new DC Entertainment company with a new boss?