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Wait a minute: ‘Marvel Publishing Presents’?
From the "Siege" #1 preview
Thursday’s preview of the first issue of Siege, the centerpiece of Marvel’s latest crossover, has spurred plenty of online discussion about the event’s nature and scope.
But what caught my eye was the motion picture-style credits, led by the words “Marvel Publishing Presents.” Not “Marvel Presents,” “Marvel Comics Presents,” or the traditional “Stan Lee Presents,” but Marvel Publishing Presents.
Perhaps the phrasing was chosen to add a little gravity to those credits, which are presented like something we’d see on a movie poster. (Still, “Publishing”?) Or maybe it was just a whim.
Sure, it appears to be a relatively minor matter of three words — okay, two: Marvel Publishing. However, they appear in connection to Siege #1, which will be among the first comics released after the announced date for Marvel’s merger with The Walt Disney Co.
So, are they simply two inconsequential words, or do they signal something more, such as a change in name or structure or a broadening of focus, post-merger?
A Marvel spokesman had no comment.
- December 4, 2009 @ 09:52 AM by Kevin Melrose
4 Comments
Steven R. Stahl
December 4, 2009 at 10:34 am
I haven’t been following online discussions about “Siege,” but the preview of SIEGE #1, with its idiot plot, doesn’t inspire confidence. Whatever happened to conflict based on principles?
SRS
Kirk Warren
December 4, 2009 at 1:17 pm
I just viewed it as a movie style poster. didn’t really give it too much attention when I was reading the issue. I’d wager it has nothing to do with Disney and is just a movie poster with no real meaning behind it. These things would be in trademark filings (ie renaming it Marvel Publishing) or announced ins ome capacity before it going live ina book I’d imagine.
Alan Coil
December 4, 2009 at 1:36 pm
“A Marvel spokesman had no comment.”
That’s a first.
dwiff
December 4, 2009 at 2:31 pm
Having read that preview, all questions as to why “Siege” led to JMS jumping ship were answered. And it was clearly an easy decision.
“Wait, Volstagg does what?”
“Yeah-see- he does not know how to interact with hum-”
“Yes, yeah, he does”
“What, when?”
“He been on earth many, many times. He knows the modern world. He was just incarnated as an Anglo.”
“Yeah, yeah, but he’s a god see? So he blows up a football stadium and…”
“I quit.”
“What, why?”