Musing upon Walt Marvel Disney Comics...

[howardtayler]

Forget the humor inherent in Wolverine showing up in Kingdom Hearts, or a Howard the Darkwing Duck consolidation (let alone Mickey doing cameos in Deadpool,) I want to address the absolute perfection of this merger

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[nimrodjcs]

As far as the comics go, I agree with you. The thing I am wondering about is what will happen with Marvel Studios. Will Disney try to assert control over them? Marvel Studios finally broke free of other studio control, now will this merger kill that?

[troutman]

The deal made with Marvel is almost the same deal Disney made with the Jim Henson company a few years ago - all of Marvel's current contracts with other companies will stay in place until they expire. Thus, Disney won't actually score certain film or theme park franchises for a decade or two. They're thinking REALLY long-term with this deal.

[ccdesan]

[petronivs]

Marvel has kept on some character experimentation with their (largely) non-canon spinoffs series. Think Marvel Zombies, for example.

I think this experimentation is going to stop or subside, and new titles will be few and far between, except for the rare idea that an in-house writer gets that he can sell to execs.

On the bright side, I think that the independent comics sector will get a stream of talent leaving Marvel.

[tprjones]

I have to ponder how this will effect the comic industry in terms of business practices. Soon copiers will be made illegal, because they can be used to copy comic books. But before that Disney will try installing impenetrable copyright protection directly into the comic books themselves. As a sample, here's the first two pages of the upcoming Wolverine / Ducktales crossover:

[lionsphil]

Pshaw. Clearly, the solution to this problem is more technology---on-line-only comic distribution which installs a hidden Windows service allowing the content to be displayed only over an encrypted HDMI link. As an unfortunate side effect of its all-encompassing protections you can no longer take screenshots, at all, but that won't stop people buying the comics.

Also, they'll refuse to display if you have Photoshop installed. Just in case.

[harper_knight]

Does M-day not count as development? They haven't retconned that yet; some, but nowhere near all.

Also, they nay have retconned Spidey's marriage, but I think the fact Spidey made a DEAL with THE DEVIL to cause that retcon also counts as character development.

Captain America is not dead but not in the main continuity anymore.

Development.

Understandably, someone who doesn't like superhero comics in the first place might not notice :P

DC is far worse than Marvel with the resets. They've had some non-ret'd-continuity recently too; especially Bats.