The Mouse continues to clean house…
https://comicbookmovie.com/disney/di...64#postcomment
… first Victoria Alonso, and now Ike. He’s the guy who basically tried to erase the X-men in favor of the Inhumans awhile back over the film rights. So good riddance in my view.
“Not as good as I once was… but I’m as good, once, as I ever was.”
Perlmutter is still one of Disney's biggest shareholders however he hasn't had any real decision power in a long time now so hopefully he can just eff off and enjoy retirement and his millions.
It's interesting though that the comics division (Dan Buckley) will now be reporting directly into Kevin Feige with no middleman. I don't really expect anything to change but I love that everything Marvel is now directly under Feige.
What seems particular inefficient about the whole thing is how little sense it made to harm and manipulate the comics over it, rather than stay focused on improving the movie side of things.
Because from a purely business point of view it made sense to try and find a thematic and stylistic alternative (not necessarily the Inhumans but anything that could be re-designed to check similar boxes) to the X-men which they could use in their movies.
Though the selected alternative would still have to struggle with the strong pop culture presence of the X-men.
Would it have been a clear immitation of the X-men and X-gene mutants? Obviously. Would people have cared as long the movies were fun and well made? Likely not.
Meanwhile the comics where allready largely sidelined to near irrelevancy for a major audience compared to all other products based on them.
Mainly because of developments around the early 90's, in which they had shifted from inexpensive mass appeal product for children and teens, to an expensive niche collectors one. Which had also led to it's readers becomming associated with negative stereotypes.
This in turn created an odd situation where it was perfectly fine for the younger target audience to like super heros based on their toys, cartoons and movies, but reading the comics was seen as unpopular. Which does not seem to have changed much even with the success of the big budget movies.
So there seems to have been very little financial or cultural benefit in taking the largely unimportant Marvel comic books and manipulate their creation to harm the X-men franchise and try to hype up the Inhumans.
Beacuse argubaly barely anyone of the larger and more important movie and TV audience would have either noticed if the X-men comics had disappeared and all reprints canceled, nor would they have known who the Inhumans are beforehand.
It might fuel rumors again, that he could eventualy be convinced to greenlight the production of cheaper third party side story comics (like Disney's own comic brands) made solely with synergie to the MCU movies though.
Essentialy a second Marvel comics away from the old one.
Last edited by Grunty; 03-29-2023 at 05:49 PM.
Brolin and Beetz rumored to return as Cable and Domino in ‘Deadpool 3’…
https://comicbookmovie.com/marvel-st...1391#gs.thl4ot
“Not as good as I once was… but I’m as good, once, as I ever was.”
Cameos or supporting cast, I’ll take it either way.
“Not as good as I once was… but I’m as good, once, as I ever was.”