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[JRC]

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When asked if there was potential for cross-polination between Marvel and Pixar, Disney said that Pixar’s John Lasseter has met with key Marvel creative executives recently and the group got “pretty excited, very fast.” Disney will look at all opportunities and thinks there are some exciting product that could come from this sort of partnership.


The press points are all warm and fuzzy, but I have my doubts.
Marvel has become its own souless money making jugernaut over the past 20 years, and I don't see this improving things.

wait for the Wolverine meets Donald duck crossover!

[mancopter]

I heard it this morning.

Turns my stomach.

I hate Disney.

Marvel was my childhood.

Disney was not.

I hate Disney.

[differently biotic]

I am a marvel girl and this scares me.

[sonofpatter]

Huey, Dewey and Louie versus Galactus!

The Punisher versus Bambi!

[MikeyWretch]

Everything is owned by everything.

I stopped caring what company put the comic out long ago. I follow writers not who pays them.

If Marvel gets all Disney the good writters will leave and so will the real fans.

[mancopter]

Everything is owned by everything.

I stopped caring what company put the comic out long ago. I follow writers not who pays them.

If Marvel gets all Disney the good writters will leave and so will the real fans.

Which is fine, but Wolverine can't exactly "quit" Marvel.

[MikeyWretch]

Everything is owned by everything.

I stopped caring what company put the comic out long ago. I follow writers not who pays them.

If Marvel gets all Disney the good writters will leave and so will the real fans.

Which is fine, but Wolverine can't exactly "quit" Marvel.

Okay well I feel that but at the same time the only reason Wolverine was ever cool was because of the creators and writers.
I have the first appearance of Wolverine under my bed right now. Its not mine but Its there and well yeah DANG!

Plus Wolverine ever since origins(although a great book) is less appealing to me. I liked him better as an unknown origin type guy.

[sonofpatter]

Bambi versus the Punisher!

[chadk]

we thank the city of toyko

[mancopter]

I don't really even read comics anymore.

But still, it's just another cherished piece of my childhood pooped on.

[MikeyWretch]

I don't really even read comics anymore.

But still, it's just another cherished piece of my childhood pooped on.

Yeah I hear that. Thank the gods that we at least still have BEER!
It fixes everything!

[mancopter]

I don't really even read comics anymore.

But still, it's just another cherished piece of my childhood pooped on.

Yeah I hear that. Thank the gods that we at least still have BEER!
It fixes everything!

I raise a can and toast you, Mikey.

[lesl.]

I don't really even read comics anymore.

But still, it's just another cherished piece of my childhood pooped on.

carry on my wayward son.

[JRC]

I haven't picked up a Marvel book since I got back into comics a couple years ago.
(that actually not true as of this weekend, but its a one time thing)
And, really, both of these groups are just huge mega corporations.
The thing that is aweful, is that Disney has been buying up A LOT of old/abandoned/disused comic properties for a while I, and thats just going to give them more and more leverage in the market.
Putting more pressure on retailers to only cary their product, hurting smaller companies.

Also: 90% of comic writers are freelance, they only get Health Ins and stuff when they sign exclusives w/ a company.
For a company to even offer that kind of stuff, they have to be the size of Marvel or DC.
(Well they don't HAVE to be, but it doesn't happen elsewhere)
So, the pressure to conform to the Disney model is going to be high.

Also, now days, more and more, comics are just a test market for the next cartoon/movie/tv series, its a "intelectual property development arm," which means the writers will get less and less control over what happens in the book, so those stories are easier to adapt into other franchise formats.
Remember that episode of Simpsons where Itchy & Scratchy get a dog added to the show? Imagine that w/ Avengers or Spiderman?

[lesl.]

This hurts.

Disney Disney Disney