CBR: Cup O' Q&A: The Disney Acquisition

[CBR News]

EXCLUSIVE: Marvel Comics Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada answers questions posed by CBR News and CBR readers regarding the recently announced acquisition of Marvel Entertainment by The Walt Disney Company.


Full article here.

[Mambazo]

And this needed a countdown timer because...?

[Brother Justin Crowe]

And this needed a countdown timer because...?

EXCITEMENT! That's why.

Nothing was gonna beat the DC Entertainment news today, but I guess anticipation is always better than the actual event.

[JimmyDee]

Something so surreal about seeing the legalese at the bottom of this interview. The comics industry truly has gone into the mainstream.

[Classtoise]

Wow.
This is so disappointing I actually felt the need to sign up and voice how insulting it was to string us along.

It's not like we couldn't figure this out. The guys who sign my check changed! I like them! Because if I don't, I can find a new job!

[Maestro]

I knew nothing would change. you whiners and complainers must feel pretty stupid right now!

[Classtoise]

I knew nothing would change. you whiners and complainers must feel pretty stupid right now!

I don't get why people would complain anyhow.
Why buy a company and praise them for what they do just to completely break them down and restructure them? It makes no sense. Disney's not stupid.

[Maestro]

I don't get why people would complain anyhow.
Why buy a company and praise them for what they do just to completely break them down and restructure them? It makes no sense. Disney's not stupid.

yeah, but fanboys are. heh, stupid fanboys

[ThunderWolf!!!]

So Quesada actually said shit.There was nothing new in this interview.

[Comicbookfan]

WTF is this?

[liminal_lad]

Does CBR have a relationship with Marvel based upon it being the new home of Cup of Joe? This "story" isn't bigger news, but it's now occupying the main spot on the home page.

[Somebody]

I don't get why people would complain anyhow.
Why buy a company and praise them for what they do just to completely break them down and restructure them? It makes no sense. Disney's not stupid.

The way these things very often work is that they say that and mean that at the start. Then as soon as there's a wobble on any part of the now-subsidiary company, the parent company will send people in to help "stabilise" it, and there's a slippery slope from there.

You'll never get Spider-Man with Mickey ears, or anything stupid like that, but five-ten years from now Marvel will be a very different company.

[MatthewDiCarlo]

First off, it's obvious Quesada had to jump through a whole bunch of legal hoops to even say this much, so it's good of him to have gone through the headache for that. It's appreciated.

Now, then. He said a whole bunch of reassuring nothing. What stood out to me the most is when he used the "I can't talk about this." answer and when he used the "If they talked about this, it's news to me." answer.

How could Kingdom Comics/Boom's license for various properties not have been a huge topic of interest to Quesada? I get giving the first answer for that question, but the second? Really? I don't not believe him. I just find it weird.

While I don't fully understand Quesada's current role on the animation side of things, there's obviously been some movement given the Sony negotiations when it comes to Spectacular Spider-Man (though that's likely a secondary side-effect), so it's somewhere between weird and mildly disheartening that Quesada's apparently been left out of that loop as well.

Still, I'm glad he went and said this much and I'm glad Disney let him. Marvel has always been relatively open so this was an important and welcome gesture, I think.

[apoehler]

Need to remind myself the lessons of the recent past: "Countdown" to anything is always a disappointment.

This piece was too little, too late--you snooze you lose. Sorry, Marvel/Disney was the last news cycle. Do try to keep up.

[jeffb1982]

even though there was alot he couldn't say, this should have been done day one