Well, now.., Uh, Holy crap?

[fmyates]

 
Disney just bought Marvel Comics

It's a X world after all.

Whole new ballgame people.

Oh my.

http://corporate.disney.go.com/news/corporate/2009/2009_0831_disney_and_marvel_entertainment.html

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2009/08/31/disney-buy-marvel-comics/

Comments

[coerciveutopian]

This seems like a bad thing.

[aybara_max]

Granted I am not a Marvel person, but this doesn't seem like that big a deal. DC is already owned by AOL Time Warner. It's just another way to spread the marketing power. I'm not completely thrilled with either situation, but it's business.

[actingbunny]

i'll stick with chad's comment "is it the Apocalypse already?"

Its kinda creepy that there soon will be only 3 major companies that own everything.... Even worse it sounds like conspiracy theory drivel but is too close to true.

I hope the takeover involved big contracts that has "no dicking around with the comics- leave them the way they are" tho if they get rid of Joe Quesada i will not complain.

[burket]

fingers crossed it'll hopefully be a non issue. Disney hasn't been doing all that well at the movies with their own non-Pixar IPs. Whereas Marvel as been pretty bankable of late. Hell i think even Ghost Rider made some money after everything was tallied. So hopefully they'll maintain a hands off approach and persist from there, as that's really the most profitable stand point.

also i forget, does time warner still own DC?