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‘Everybody take a deep breath, all your favorite comics remain unchanged’
Disney-Marvel
As investors, creators and fans reel from this morning’s news of Disney’s $4 billion purchase of Marvel Entertainment, message boards churn with hand-wringing and wild speculation. Twitter, meanwhile, emerges as a calm spot.
“G’ morning, Marvel U!” tweets Marvel Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada. “Welcome to this moment in history. Everyone relax, this is incredible news and all is well in the Marvel U. … Everybody take a deep breath, all your favorite comics remain unchanged and Tom Brevoort remains grouchy.
“If you’re familiar with the Disney/Pixar relationship,” he continues, “then you’ll understand why this is a new dawn for Marvel and the comics industry.”
But as Quesada and talent liaison C.B. Cebulski set about easing concerns, others turn their attention to what’s really important: the creation of a meme detailing the ramifications of the merger of the House of Mouse with the House of Ideas.
My favorites so far: “Howl’s Moving Frank Castle” and “Hannah Montana: Herald of Galactus.”
- August 31, 2009 @ 08:16 AM by Kevin Melrose
8 Comments
Keg
August 31, 2009 at 8:45 am
Well there goes Quesada’s rights to make fun of DC being owned by Time Warner.
Sean Murphy
August 31, 2009 at 8:45 am
Mickey Mouse: The Sorcerer Supreme’s Apprentice.
The Adventures of the Littlest Mermaid and Mini-Namor
All My Children of the Atom
Dancing with the Starjammers
and my favorite:
The Lion King eats T’Challa
DrunkJack
August 31, 2009 at 8:55 am
Say what you will about Disney, it does seem to make more sense than Time Warner with DC. Time Warner is a big media magazine and music conglomerate that has virtually no creative core. Disney knows how to create properties, has been doing so for over 50 years, and it knows how to utilize those properties.
Time Warner? It knew how to sell magazines and music. The only similarity would be DC’s status as a periodical publisher, which is by now besides the point. And any of their music related knowledge isn’t exactly applicable to super heroes.
Plus, Pixar. Time Warner never had anything close to Pixar, ever.
Josh Fitzpatrick
August 31, 2009 at 10:35 am
Pixar was it’s own company with it’s own creative team until two years ago. And now two of their next movies are sequels? Yeah, very original.
Julian
August 31, 2009 at 11:47 am
Of what import are brief, nameless lives… to Scrooge McDuck??
Mysterious Stranger
August 31, 2009 at 1:55 pm
At last my deepest, darkest fantasy of a comic book may now come true … DeadPooh: Merc with a Honeypot!
Alan Coil
August 31, 2009 at 4:37 pm
The comics may be unchanged for now, but what of the future? Is the Icon imprint already a goner? Or are those creators going to be forced to work for Disney as Alan Moore was forced to work for DC? And will the content of the Icon books be censored? And what of the MAX imprint?
And what exactly is Disney going to do when they discover that their newly-owned character Spider-Man has made a deal with the devil to negate the death of his Aunt May? Will religious boycotts soon follow?
DrunkJack
August 31, 2009 at 6:59 pm
“Will religious boycotts soon follow?”
Bah, the religious loonies already hate Disney.
I mean, they’ve got witches on the teevee and haven’t shut down Gay Days and all manner of sinfulness.