Comments on: Issue Of The Week: Disney Buys Marvel http://www.geekswithissues.com/beta/archives/493 Geeks With Issues is a Community Access & Internet television program based out of Pittsfield, MA. Lead by moderator Tuck, Geeks Ogre, Mollie and Trevor endeavor to start this discussion on all topics geek - Games, technology, comics, movies, television and more - from their Basement of Dreams. Geeks With Issues Online is the audio podcast supplement to the show. Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:06:54 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: ccham44 http://www.geekswithissues.com/beta/archives/493/comment-page-1#comment-98 ccham44 Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:24:29 +0000 http://www.geekswithissues.com/beta/?p=493#comment-98 Quick thought before I start pretending to be productive at work this morning.<br><br>While this was easily the most interesting business news of the day (JP Morgan's downgrade of Shaw Group already had my nether regions a-twitter, but this just put me over the top), I din't think too much of it. The bottom line is Disney wanted something that Marvel had... boys. Otherwise, this seems like a pretty run-of-the mill merger for the world of entertainment.<br><br>For starters, Marvel was already a multi-billion-dollar publicly-traded company; not exactly the little comic shop of old. Uncle Stan is a millionaire many times over; because he is a creative genius, yes, but also because he and his compatriots are solid businessmen. That said, Disney is much larger fish, and a traditional media conglomerate; however, we don't have to look far to see what that might mean. National Allied Publications... I mean DC Comics... has been owned by one of the Big Six (Time Warner) since 1969, and while we all have our preferences in the age-old DC vs. Marvel debate, they still manage to produce some outstanding content.<br><br>The real difference is more likely to be in volume. One of the biggest drivers of this deal (from Marvel's side), besides an offer that was too good to pass up, was their limited resources. Disney is a $50 billion company, and I expect that those resources will be put to work. This may mean an accelerated schedule for movie production, thought the dates for the next few years are mostly set, and are quickly approaching, so perhaps not. But I'm sure it will mean several new TV series, much like the Iron Man and X-Men fare that have recently debuted. Disney also loves digging out old characters and reviving them, which could be fun.<br><br>The big question is, will this new content be any good? Undoubtedly, some of it will not, but isn't that how it's always been? It seems to me that all of these companies throw our favorite characters into lots of projects. Some of them are wonderful, and become favorites, and the rest are quickly forgotten.<br><br>As for the public service special, um... <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlRrbGSBya0" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlRrbGSBya0</a> Quick thought before I start pretending to be productive at work this morning.

While this was easily the most interesting business news of the day (JP Morgan's downgrade of Shaw Group already had my nether regions a-twitter, but this just put me over the top), I din't think too much of it. The bottom line is Disney wanted something that Marvel had… boys. Otherwise, this seems like a pretty run-of-the mill merger for the world of entertainment.

For starters, Marvel was already a multi-billion-dollar publicly-traded company; not exactly the little comic shop of old. Uncle Stan is a millionaire many times over; because he is a creative genius, yes, but also because he and his compatriots are solid businessmen. That said, Disney is much larger fish, and a traditional media conglomerate; however, we don't have to look far to see what that might mean. National Allied Publications… I mean DC Comics… has been owned by one of the Big Six (Time Warner) since 1969, and while we all have our preferences in the age-old DC vs. Marvel debate, they still manage to produce some outstanding content.

The real difference is more likely to be in volume. One of the biggest drivers of this deal (from Marvel's side), besides an offer that was too good to pass up, was their limited resources. Disney is a $50 billion company, and I expect that those resources will be put to work. This may mean an accelerated schedule for movie production, thought the dates for the next few years are mostly set, and are quickly approaching, so perhaps not. But I'm sure it will mean several new TV series, much like the Iron Man and X-Men fare that have recently debuted. Disney also loves digging out old characters and reviving them, which could be fun.

The big question is, will this new content be any good? Undoubtedly, some of it will not, but isn't that how it's always been? It seems to me that all of these companies throw our favorite characters into lots of projects. Some of them are wonderful, and become favorites, and the rest are quickly forgotten.

As for the public service special, um… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlRrbGSBya0

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