Nothing in the comic world has bothered me much since Eclipse Comics died, followed by a spell of dark hatred for Image’s boring junk. Disney’s acquisition of Marvel is no exception. I don’t see what all the FUD and fuss is about. Disney probably won’t mess with Marvel’s comics, as long as they continue to make a little bit of money – the real interest for them is the characters and tie-ins, and the comics are necessary to continue the ‘legitimacy’ of the franchise so they’ll probably just leave them be.
Honestly, I can’t see Disney/Marvel movies being worse than the mixed bag over the last decade. FF has to be a real low point. Really, really low. And Disney has completely respected Pixar and IMO ‘Up’ was one of the best, not even really merchandise-oriented like you’d expect.
The other thing about this is, Mickey Mouse goes into the public domain in a little over a decade and Disney needs to start buying up characters. They won’t be able to control Mickey stuff and though all that product of varying quality can just help remind people that Disney exists, depending on what happens with the character (could be porn, toilet paper, politricks) they’ll probably need to start relying on other properties more. So, you know, a Spidey ride is more than a little likely and that’s fine by me as long as it’s fast. I want to climb up inside a giant Captain America shield and spin until I’m ready to puke. No, really.
This is the Hulk ride at Universal’s park in Florida:
I was getting a ridiculously large number of hits from people looking at my post about Disneyland. I can’t imagine most people are interested in the Situationist International, so I looked a little further down my stats page, and lo and behold, people were coming from google images to check out the nifty image I stole via google images in the first place.
If I put up more images with a Disneyland tag in them and have all my posts say ‘RIAA’, ‘DMCA’, or ‘File Sharing’ in the title, will I get as many hits as Cory does?
Regardless, I’ve changed the name of the image to something less honest. I like readers, but having so many people stop by just to filch an image and move on screws up my stats reading.
UPDATE – I think I have to delete the image for now and see if the problem goes away.
Not Really. But a casual perusal in the internet reveals that, along with Disney, the RIAA and M$ are the biggest targets for hate. It would be so much easier if Microsoft would buy all the old major labels, and Disney, so people could pour their pseudomystical hatred onto one simple target.
Just as strange is the net folk’s irrational exuberance for Google. They sure do love their former-search-engine-in-the-process-of-acquiring-and-researching-itself-into-a-PC-yahoo. As if Google wasn’t a company at all, but a big friendly cloud of milky teets. MMM.
Maybe after M$ buys the major labels and Disney, Google can buy M$ and we can love all our operating systems, search engines, theme parks, cartoons, and moo-sick in one big lovin’ teetfest.
I was reading Gilles Ivains Situationist essay “Formulary for a New Urbanism”, because I am passionately interested in cranky old semi-marxist art movements. Anyhow, I came to this last passage:
”The economic obstacles are only apparent. We know that the more a place is set apart for free play, the more it influences people’s behavior and the greater is its force of attraction. This is demonstrated by the immense prestige of Monaco and Las Vegas — and of Reno, that caricature of free love — though they are mere gambling places. Our first experimental city would live largely off tolerated and controlled tourism. Future avant-garde activities and productions would naturally tend to gravitate there. In a few years it would become the intellectual capital of the world and would be universally recognized as such.”
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