Get up and walk away from the computer and sleep it off.
We don’t know what they’ll do next over this.

1) He did not turn Marvel’s fortunes around. Not alone, at any rate. That was more due to the movie and other licensing deals, and that was Ari Avid’s job, not Joe’s.

2) Recently I’ve been poking around ICV2’s sales predictions since they started keeping them, which was around the time Quesada started. It’s impossible to tell exactly what each title is selling because those numbers aren’t released to the public, but to my mind Marvel’s sales have been relatively flat for the past ten years or so. They may have trended upward a little, but I believe Marvel is selling about as many units as they were in 2000.

Now, is that spread over twice as many titles? Maybe, but obviously somebody thinks he’s making them money. I haven’t agreed with everything Quesada has done (actually, I’ve disagreed with a lot of what he’s done), but absolutely nobody can say is that Marvel under his hand has been boring.

And for anybody who thinks Marvel’s heroes’ primary motivation is their nobility doesn’t read Marvel comics. Spider-Man’s reluctant, mopey and self-absorbed and was always that way right up until he got married. Bruce Banner and The Thing would walk away from their alter egos if they could. Three-quarters of Cap’s Kooky Quartet were villains at one point, and Professor X left his X-Men or New Mutants in the care of Magneto probably a dozen times.

Nobody got along with each other, and even heroes on the same teams fought with each other. That was something that was lost in the 90s, and it was something that Quesada brought back in Civil War and Secret Invasion. Heroes don’t trust each other anymore, and that’s a good thing for stories.

I’m a DC guy. I agree that heroes should be noble and get over themselves. But that’s DC. The thing that makes (and has always made) Marvel so dynamic is their characters are so messed up, self-involved, unhappy. And whether or not you like what Quesada has done, you can’t disagree that Quesada has helped return Marvel to that status quo.

If you want to bring Pixar into the equation, look no further Elasti-Girl and Violet, and even Toy Story 2′s Jessie.

How ORIGINAL.

You’re all missing-out on some pretty quality stuff, which is fine, since I’m sure if you DID read it you’d attempt picking it apart so much, finding Editorial and continuity flaws in every word-balloon, that the risk of ruining the entire thing for any other person would be present.

Go bury your noses in “Chew” or whatever it is you people actually DO enjoy and stop beating this 10-year-old Marvel Zombie horse to death. It obviously keeps getting back up, still not caring…

At least in terms of their animated movies, which is my major exposure to them. Particularly from Little Mermaid on to…hmm, Esmeralda in Hunchback of Notre Dame? Megara in Hercules, maybe? It’s been a while since Disney stopped doing their annual big 2D cartoon.

Anyway, it seems the Disney “princess” characters of the last few decades are tremendously active compared to the first one, Snow White. And even the old-school princesses like Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella may have stepped aside for a boy to slay the dragon or to have mooned for a prince, but they were still female protagonists…something Big Two comics could use more of, regardless of whether they’re kicking ass or not.

Yeah, OMD was just the wrong way to do things, but I’ve got to say that this decade gave us better quality than, say, the 90′s.

how would she even know whether or not Quesada is doing a good job if she hasn’t picked up a Marvel book in five years? declining sales doesn’t always directly correlate with the quality of the books. it’s like assuming that there aren’t any good books in book stores because sales have been declining for the major chain stores. i guess there’s just not any good authors putting out books anymore! no one is reading anymore! sounds pretty silly to me.