I don’t think we’ll see Disney interfere much with the comics end of things. Maarvel knows comics, for better or worse, so why would they screw up what’s been a successful thing? If anything, Disney might (might) help get comics back more into the mainstream. With their marketing might, maybe they’ll start turning up on newstands and grocery/drug stores again? I think we might see comics of other Disney properties, published by Marvel. I am curious to see what will happen with BOOM!

I don’t think things will get “cute” or watered down with Disney either. I mean, Miramax is a division of Disney… Look at some of the films they’ve made! Not kiddie fare. They also own ESPN and ABC. Sports (with all those beer and Viagra ads), and shows like Lost, Desperate Housewives, and Grey’s Anatomy. Again, not for the kids.

The DC reactions are hilarious, given they’re corporate-owned too… I’m sure they’re under just as many restrictions as Disney will put on Marvel. WB’s certainly proven they don’t always have a clue on how to translate DC properties for the big screen (or even the small screen, sometimes), but Disney’s a different animal. This is where Disney will probably be able to help Marvel the most. At least, I hope so. Pixar’s success, financially and creatively, gives me hope.

John Lassiter and Brad Bird getting involved with Marvel movies would be sweet.

Take a chill pill dude. I didn’t name specific actors, but if you want, I’ll gladly oblige. Halle Berry. Ben Affleck (yes, he is indeed a 2nd rate actor). Jessica Alba (ditto Alba). Nicolas Cage. Kirsten Dunst. James Marsden. I think you’re confusing knowing these names with them being ‘high quality’. No qualms about Sir Ian, Connelly (who’s job was to whimper in Hulk) or Stewart, though.

Winning an Academy Award is not the barometer of greatness. Just look at the OVERALL body of work (particularly post-Oscar) for the likes of Berry and Cage.

Who do I consider 1st rate? Likes of Denzel Washington, Downey Jr., Hopkins, Streep, Nicholson, etc etc

The Broadway comment just seemed childish and dumb.

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Spiderman has always been one of my favorites and he was effective at nearly making me jump out of my skin.

What Disney/marvel should be doing now — to have the best creative teams and studios — is to start buying some if the smaller established publishers like dynamite, Radical, boom!, xenoscope, aspen, ardden and idw so that it can have better input in to its titles. If you ask me I think marvel’s recent titles have looked a little bit drab and they need to up the quality of its books. It’s no good slapping a Jae lee or cassidy cover on to a book that, frankly, looks like a turd inside. Hopefully Disney will change marvel the way warner communicates with DC about up and coming events.

If the price tag remains a 3.99 then surely we should have better quality titles, paper and creative teams etc? I think that’s what Joe Q said they would do a month or so ago – but I haven’t seen it yet. Have you? The only book that looks like it will hit that category is deathlok. Maybe.

It’s time now for the house of ideas to BE the “house of ideas” in every department.

Uh, Marvel movies have already been using 2nd-rate actors to play movie parts. I submit FF, Daredevil, X-Men, Hulk, Ghost Rider, Blade…..

I can see it now, the son of Spider-man saving the world (and don’t forget you Spider boy burger and coke).

I know that everybody’s all wound up about what might happen to the Marvel characters, but have we established what’s happening with the Disney characters at other studios? Have Waid or Vado made their opinion known yet?

Joe Q has mocked DC for years about their Warner Bros ownership. Now being owned by a corporate multimedia conglomerate “feels like Christmas morning”. Gimme a break.

And now maybe they’ll get that Spider-Man musical made since Disney has a large theatrical division with their own theaters on Broadway.

I’d be a lot more worried about this in pre-Pixar takeover of Disney Creative phase, but hopefully this will work out for the best!!!