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Wayde Murray
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I think if it makes good business sense for Disney to keep Marvel "as is", it will do exactly that. If it makes good business sense for Disney to do something else with Marvel (rework, retool, revamp, retire) then they'll do that. It won't matter what the fans of Marvel think, it won't matter what the pros at Marvel think, it won't matter what the executives of Marvel think. As to what I think they'll choose to do, I don't have nearly enough information to even guess at an answer. I'm not sure anyone else on this board does either. Some of the guesses here make for interesting reading, but it's all guesswork until Disney actually makes a move.
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Marcio Ferreira
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Stephen, I almost fell of my chair.
That was very clever! (and funny too)
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Emery Calame
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M.O.D.U.C.K.M-ental O-rganism D-esigned for U-nintelligible C-oniptions and K-vetching
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Anthony Frail
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Well, at this point, only time will tell.I can hope the best thing happens for the comic book industry.
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Eric Joseph Hernandez
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But imagine all the movies they can make!!
+ Finding Namor
+ The Beauty & Hank McCoy
+ Deadpool & Stitch
+ Snow White & the 7 X-Men
+ Fantasia 2010: Enter Dr. Doom
+ Ghost Rider In The Haunted Mansion
+ The Pirates Of Genosha
+ Human Torch-erella
+ Blade In Halloween Town Perhaps even a Punisher movie done by Pixar. Just joking, don't really know what to think at this point.
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Laren Farmer
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New crossovers: Dr. Strange on Waverly Place Dazzler meets Hannah Montana.
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Joe Zhang
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Ultimate Mickey Mouse Club : all the child performers grow up to become crazy pop stars.
Edited by Joe Zhang on 05 September 2009 at 12:24am
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Pete Carrubba
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I wonder if a crossover of Howard the Duck with Donald and Darkwing Duck is in the works?
The next Marvel-DC crossover could be a Bugs Bunny and Mickey Mouse story.
I need an Advil.
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Eric Joseph Hernandez
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Lars Johansson
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I think Thanos pointed something out there, but the problem would be if you have franchised Disney comics and now you have franchised Marvel within the same company, let's say that you have Acme publisning that publishes the comics: Uncle Scrooge, Batman, Archie, Mickey Mouse, Ernie. If Marvel suddenly owns Disney, Uncle Scrroge and Mickey Mouse are fine, they will probably not care about Achie and Ernie, but how much interest do they have in helping Batman, a competitor to their own super-heroes? Right now DC (and oher companies) are most likely pulling out of a lot of deals because of the Marvel-Disney fusion.
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Thanos Kollias
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Thanos, Disney does not produce their own comics. They license them out, and have for years. Weird, but true.
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So, what is the problem with Marvel? They have a subsidiary company that does all the work and continues to do what they have been doing. I don't get this is an all out merge that will evaporate Marvel. Am I missing something?
I can understand that some things may change (target audience, distribution, licensing etc) but I think everything will be pretty much the same. Disney wants to increase their profits, that's why they are buying Marvel.
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Pedro Bouça
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"in time, few years ago the Super Heroes were no longer "profitable"enough for Abril and they simply decided to stop publishing SuperHeroes. Then "Panini" came and now Marvel Comics AND DC are publishedby Panini. (as it was with "Abril", and "RGE", and "Bloch", and "Ebal",and "GEP" - All publishing houses in Brazil that in the past 40 yearspublished Super Heroes from Marvel Comics and DC)."
That was quite a bit more complicated than that, Marcio.
You see, Marvel super-heroes were still profitable, BUT Panini (which owns by contract the Marvel comics licenses outside US) took the Marvel license out of Abril because the two publishers had some ugly differences in another market (soccer sticker albuns, I kid you not!) and Panini took its revenge the only way it could, by pubishing Marvel directly.
Left with just DC, Abril decided to get out of the super-hero comics business (sorry DC fans, your fave characters can't outsell Marvel's ANYWHERE!).
But I'm quite sure that they will now use their leverage as a longtime Disney licenser (almost 60 years now!) to get their revenge on Panini. Wait and see!
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