My Take on Marvel and Disney
What do I think this means for us the Comic Book companies that are small or just getting started...
We have an even larger hill to climb, Disneys money and range will make things more inundated than it already is and flood the market with horrid crap that no one will read, not to mention devastate the collectibility level. But that is just my thoughts on that...
What else do I think it means...Well it means that things become more convoluted, that what we all once knew in our childhood and enjoyed will now become more fodder for the Disney conglomerant. The characters that were edgy, harsh, over the top, beloved, will be some kind of watered down wanna be universe. Mickey will make regular appearances through out all the titles making people vomit from pixie dust over dose, and that once badass villians or even pseudo villians will face off against The Incredibles or Magneto will meet his match facing off against Goofy who trips his way into defeating one the greatest Villians of all time.
Scrooge McDuck will buy out the Baxter Building and Stark Enterprises; resulting in the Invincible IronDuck... or a New FF Featuring Mickey (The giggly) Mr. StretchMouse, Mini as The Invisible Mouse, Donald as The QuackThing and Goofy as The Duffy Torch...please.
What shall we do...hopeflly in the long run I hope that it means more folks will look tot he independents and smaller publishers to keep the true comic book universes alive.
Larry
We have an even larger hill to climb, Disneys money and range will make things more inundated than it already is and flood the market with horrid crap that no one will read, not to mention devastate the collectibility level. But that is just my thoughts on that...
What else do I think it means...Well it means that things become more convoluted, that what we all once knew in our childhood and enjoyed will now become more fodder for the Disney conglomerant. The characters that were edgy, harsh, over the top, beloved, will be some kind of watered down wanna be universe. Mickey will make regular appearances through out all the titles making people vomit from pixie dust over dose, and that once badass villians or even pseudo villians will face off against The Incredibles or Magneto will meet his match facing off against Goofy who trips his way into defeating one the greatest Villians of all time.
Scrooge McDuck will buy out the Baxter Building and Stark Enterprises; resulting in the Invincible IronDuck... or a New FF Featuring Mickey (The giggly) Mr. StretchMouse, Mini as The Invisible Mouse, Donald as The QuackThing and Goofy as The Duffy Torch...please.
What shall we do...hopeflly in the long run I hope that it means more folks will look tot he independents and smaller publishers to keep the true comic book universes alive.
Larry
While I suspect that your post is more facetious than not, I don't know that Disney is financially willing to neuter one of it's newest money-makers that quickly. I do see them putting out Disney/Marvel crossovers under a Disney imprint or subset of Kids' Marvel Comics, which might not be a bad thing.
One thing about the Grim-N-Gritty content of Marvel's books is that parents might be reluctant to let their younger children read them. If Disney can introduce a child-friendly line of books and stories (hey, nothing says "clean and family-friendly" like the mouse) then it can be a gateway for when the kids get older and mature enough to be allowed to purchase the more edgy and content-questionable books. In this manner, a whole new generation of readers will be born, which is an industry problem as I understand it.
Mostly, the readership is older kids/young adults who are buying the books these days and if you can get parents to drop some coin on even more books so their younger kids can enjoy comics, well so much the better, eh?
So while I don't see Wolverine calling the Mouse "bub" in some groan-inducing ill-concieved special guest story, I do see a separate line of books that might have a Disney-fied Wolverine giving bicycle safety tips.
On the other hand, almost all of the Ub Iwerk stories from the 30s and 40s had a lot of really good stories and plots and much has already been written of the Carl Barks Scrooge McDuck and Hewey, Dewey and Louie stories. So they're no strangers to good ol' fashioned adventure stories that are still clean and wholesome, which I find rather refreshing these days.
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Also, it may likely mean a steeper uphill climb for indies, but that just means your product will be that much better for it. If their books turn out to be horrid crap, then few will buy it and you'll be seeing a lot of Disney/Marvel books in the 50¢ bin at comic stores and conventions and you'll have nothing to worry about. Ah, capitalism, God help me, I love it so!
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You gave them some great ideas here...You can sue when those stories come out.
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It’s a win-win-win situation. Disney gets the male demographic and money, Marvel makes money and gains the stability, and we the fans can be guaranteed our beloved characters will hang around a while longer and we get to spend money on what we really want. Good vibes for everyone.
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