What sort of Mickey Mouse @#^! is this?

This was enough to get me to come running out from under my rock wondering just what happened to the world while I was away. It was Monday so I expected some sort of buzz-worthy event to smack me in the face but Marvel sold to Disney? The end is nigh!

I don't think Frank Castle would approve.

Hold up, pump the breaks.

Like many things that throw you for a loop, a night to sleep on it adds perspective. This assimilation into the Evil Empire may just be what the doctor ordered.  Marvel is no doubt unwieldy at times and though they have taken great strides to keep it in some sort of shape organizationally, it’s been a mixed bag in terms of product. They’ve slowly developed a web model to compensate for the fact that their audience has shifted from printed books to digital distribution, they’re ahead of the newspaper industry but not at the edge of innovative practices. Disney has been more successful in adapting and adopting new technology. This is key because Marvel needs fresh ideas, they need a refreshed vision, I’ll come out and say it, they need Disney.

If you know me personally, you know that I loathe Disney in its current form. I had been a big fan growing up but as I got older I began to firmly believe that they have made some  deal with Satan to pump weak, saccharine garbage into the world. What? Yes, Disney has always been ultra candy coated, but the one thing they brought was a sense of grand imagination, short of Pixar, where has this been for the last 20 years? They killed 2d animation(!), delivered uneven results with their motion pictures, fell off with their music & lost their way with their television programming. It’s been manufactured retreads ad nauseum giving us Britney, Christina, Justin, Lindsey, Shia, Miley, High School Musical & The Jonas brothers and many more… Now that I think about it, Disney needs Marvel…