Disney buys Marvel

[Osbourne Kilminster]

I couldn't disagree more.

FYI, Galactus is a primal cosmic force inherent to the fabric of our universe, but doesn't have a completely unblemished record. He does weaken, at times, and he's been beaten by the likes of Thor, Odin and Silver Surfer.

[Tim]

I couldn't disagree more.

FYI, Galactus is a primal cosmic force inherent to the fabric of our universe, but doesn't have a completely unblemished record. He does weaken, at times, and he's been beaten by the likes of Thor, Odin and Silver Surfer.

He eats planets.  I get it.  And he occasionally gets beaten by superheroes (as one would expect to happen in a superhero comic).

Still bores me to death.  Give me Gotham City over Galactus any day.

I should clarify that I'm not some DC fanboy hating on Marvel though.  I have a deep admiration for the Spiderman books and i read them a lot as a kid.  I also really liked the Ultimate Spider Man books (and the Ultimate books in general) up until the whole Ultimatum fiasco, which really just felt like a big mess.

And as I've already said, there are DC chars I have no love for either.  Ahem, Superman, Darkseid, etc.

[Mad Dog]

I hate crossovers (ones that force you to buy a title that you don't read)

[Osbourne Kilminster]

I hate crossovers (ones that force you to buy a title that you don't read)

Agreed!

I read the Ultimate books up until the point they starting jobbing Thor out like a little bitch. Made no sense to me. Oh, and they changed the nature of Galactus completely.

I'm not saying I dislike street-level characters by any means - Punisher rocks, even more so than Batman, IMHO.

[silas]

Punisher eats dead children.

I love the Punisher.

[Osbourne Kilminster]

Dunno why you love him. He'd fuck you up before he even poured milk on his Coco Pops, just for fits and giggles. LOL

[Tim]

I hate crossovers (ones that force you to buy a title that you don't read)

Tend not to buy crossovers, unless they become heir own separate thing and feel significantly different than the titles they came from.  e.g. The Superman/Batman series DC produced for awhile had a legitimately different feel than either the solo bat-books or super-books.  The Civil War event made every marvel series feel different for awhile as well (Though that def fell into the category of making people buy shit they wouldn't normally read)

Ultimatum wasn't so much a crossover though as it was Jeph Loeb raping the entire Ultimate Universe and laughing about it the whole time.  Bastard.

[Osbourne Kilminster]

Are you following Dark Reign?

[Tim]

Are you following Dark Reign?

Nope.  I have heard about it and hat it entails Norman Osbourn wielding a lot of power, which sounds interesting, but I haven't followed the main marvel storylines for quite some time.

[Dead Soul]

See, I love Galactus and Marvel's cosmic entities on a whole (the Infinity War and Infinity Gauntlet series in particular, where they show that even Galactus is neither all-powerful or even necessarily all that smart). It helps that those series created Thanos, in my opinion one of the best comic book villains that has ever existed. You have to be pretty badass to be immortal solely because Death doesn't want you in her realm (or you have to be Deadpool, who fucked the place up so much when he died that he's not allowed back).

But then I like the Batman vigilante-style anti-hero stories as much. Or even Spider-Man and Iron Man, to a lesser extent.

Basically, for my comic book stories, I want either people I can relate to, or fantastic beings beyond mortal ken.

Also, Exiles/Dr. Who dimension-hopping stories always catch my fancy.

Haven't really followed anything since the Civil War/Infinite Crisis time period, though, since that was when I stopped working at a bookstore.

[Rex]

Disney buying Marvel = WWE buying ecw and wcw which in return = the death of Marvel comics as we know it. We'll be seeing jonas brothers comics and hannah montana comics. that shit ain't worth reading IMO hehe.

my 2 cents.

[Tim]

Disney buying Marvel = WWE buying ecw and wcw which in return = the death of Marvel comics as we know it. We'll be seeing jonas brothers comics and hannah montana comics. that shit ain't worth reading IMO hehe.

my 2 cents.

I highly doubt that will happen, at least not anytime soon.  Disney execs aren't quite as dumb as you think.  They know where there are potential for crossovers and where things should be left as they are.

[Dead Soul]

We're talking about Disney here.

Say what you will about the Jonas Brothers, Hannah Montana, blah blah blah... Disney is making money HAND OVER FIST by doing what it does best: pandering to its audience.

All it means at Marvel, after some initial growing pains, is that they will continue to do what they have always done, or even *gasp* get better, because that's what the market wants. You'll just see even more merchandising (not that Marvel wasn't all about that to begin with).

[Mad Dog]

So what's next for Disney, Mattel?

Probably all ready own it.