Monday, August 31, 2009

Make Mine Disney?

At time of writing, I've received 15 messages, texts, E-mails and phone calls from people in a blind panic. This is much bigger news than the death of that black or white child molesting freak during the summer!!! This is real big.

Disney have just bought Marvel Comics for $4bn.

It's not hard to see why. Disney have everything from Cinderella in Animation, High School Musical on film, Hanna Montana on TV and toys that appeal to kids of all ages - but I daresay most of them girls. Yes, it's all girls crap! Disney are a company who must plunder both genders of children but apart from Toy Story, Cars and most recently G-Force almost everything else is spurned by the mighty male. Action was required to corner the entire male demographic in one fell swoop and they've done it. Marvel Entertainment, bastion of testosterone in the form of Hulk, Wolverine and The Punisher to name but a few of their some 5000 characters are all to be owned by the House of Mouse.

All sorts of things could come from this, some are good and some are bad. On the plus side, we have Disney's Pixar, masters of CG animation; imagine what would happen if they turned their attention away from their usual nonsense [Dreamworks are beginning to pwn them on that level anyway] and create a load of awesome Marvel Comics productions. Whatever they are I'm sure they'll look a damn sight more impressive than the animation Marvel is producing at the moment.

On the downside, well, I thought of this image on my way home today and I've just recreated it for you...
More when I know it.

7 comments:

Bruce Russell said...

My wife's reaction? "You mean I'm going to have to put up with that stuff when we go to Disney?"

/sigh

Bruce Russell said...

Check this out:

http://io9.com/5349634/it-had-to-happen-the-disneymarvel-buyout-brings-us-moduck/gallery/

vaughan said...

One of the reasons given for the purchase is the chance to get into the boys clothing market....I can see the Colonel buying a pair of Iron Man Pyjamas as soon as their released.

Declan said...

I guess we'll be back to moral messages at the end of the movie when Spiderman wraps the bad guy up in a web, caught but safe, he will turn to the camera and inform kids that "only fools sniff glue" or Wolverine will retract his claws and tells the camera "dont run with scissors kids" :-)

Civilian Overseer said...

I hear that Disney want a reboot of the Fantastic Four and they put the "Akiva Goldsman" the writer of the “Batman Forever” and “Batman & Robin”. It's an indication of things to come when Disney looks at an existing sh*ty franchise and thinks, wow, how can we make this sh*tier, I know let's put the moron who runed the Batman franchise in charge.

Constance said...

I think that Mr. Vaughan has some inside information...

Civilian Overseer said...

Connie, are you insinuating that Mr.V. is familiar with the inside of the Colonel's "closet"?

The Colonel does spend a rather inordinate amount of time in his "closet", what with all the costumes and what not, it's only natural that such a close personnel friend as Mr.V should try and coax the Colonel out of said "closet" and in these days of Don't ask, Don't tell, even if the coaxing was to take place in the "closet", who amongst us could possible find fault with that. ;)