Holy Shit, Donald Duck Owns Peter Parker
You go to bed one night, sleep in a little bit later than usual, and when you wake up, the whole fucking comic book world has gone insane.
Disney has bought Marvel Comics. For four-billion dollars. I can’t even afford new shoes, Disney shits out four-billion dollars like nothing. Everyone in the comic book industry is currently running around with their hair on fire, unsure of the ramifications of this acquisition. Maybe we’ll see Wolverine on The View? Maybe there will be even more bureaucracy to suffer through when getting big events planned? Maybe this will allow Marvel to continue to use comic books as breeding grounds for action figures, movies, t-shirts and theme parks while making absolutely no money on the actual paper comic book for a while longer? That’d be great for me. And maybe, maybe we’ll see a fucking Pixar movie featuring Marvel comic book characters, which would send me into insane fits of ecstasy:
When asked if there was potential for cross-polination between Marvel and Pixar, Disney said that Pixar’s John Lasseter has met with key Marvel creative executives recently and the group got “pretty excited, very fast.” Disney will look at all opportunities and thinks there are some exciting product that could come from this sort of partnership.
Can you imagine that shit? Who the fuck knows what’s going on though, or what could happen. Crazy shit for crazy times.
- Caffeine Powered
August 31st, 2009 at 3:24 pm
KINGDOM HEARTS WITH MARVEL CHARACTERS(don’t know what that game would be called though)
August 31st, 2009 at 3:49 pm
It can’t be called anything worse than Kingdom Hearts.
August 31st, 2009 at 9:19 pm
My hope is that Disney will simply use the purchase to create cartoons (already being done) and to make big budget Pixar movies (I’d imagine it’ll be the two or three down the line) and essentially leave the Marvel comic publishing alone. So, make use for animated series, reap the live action movie profits and various merchandising income, and leave the less profitable/visible comic publishing to the Marvel Comics portion of the company.
This could be a good thing as long as Disney knows how to be a holding company and not interfere in a business model that kind of works.
August 31st, 2009 at 11:13 pm
The heads at Disney said they didn’t plan on interfering much..”If it aint broke…”
September 1st, 2009 at 1:18 am
Finally! I can get my pic with Spidey and Mickey all at once and not have to pay for 2 park tickets. This is a win-win situation.