Marvel Comics is the ONLY comic company worth a crap. DC is a joke. At least, that's what forty-plus years of reading both has left me to conclude.
Last year, my favorite movie was
Iron Man, with the irrepressible Robert Downey Jr. stealing the show from start to finish. At least 95% of all the WOMEN I have interviewed who saw that movie LOVED IT--a comic book action movie? How could that be?
And,
Iron Man was Marvel Entertainment's first foray into film production. That is, every movie that featured one of their characters--
Spiderman, et al--had been purchased by a separate producer or studio and developed OUTSIDE the Marvel house. Until
Iron Man, which was an undeniably ridiculous success, a major hit, the best comic book character movie I've
ever seen. Millions of fellow viewers would agree.
So...with that first heady success under their belts, with that great one-for-one so far in their batting record, what is Marvel Entertainment's next move?
Selling out to Disney. For $4 billion.
Jesus Hussein Christ on a fucking pogo stick...and this day was starting out so well...