Well, the news is out. DC comics are getting darker and darker and their movies and TV series are also going that way. However, Marvel Disney Comics has a solution.
Disney is known as a "family friendly" company -as was Marvel Comics. Archie Comics appears to have tried to take over that mantle. Disney ain't having that.
Disney executives are quite pleased with the money quite literally spilling in from the movie franchise and all the goodies that spin out of that. However, as the statistics show, 'Marvel' Comics are losing money. It's one reboot after another. One number one followed by another number one. "Gimmick" covers to try to cash in that just are not working.
Now, Germanys top weekly magazine dealing with movies and pop culture, Großer Witz, has incurred Disney wrath by publishing an interview in its October that should not have seen print until next April.
We all know this "Eight months Later" thing is going on. The Avengers will shoot ahead to April 2015 while all other titles continue normally. But why? What sense does it make? Why are the Avengers titles months ahead of others?
Eristein Lügner of Großer Witz was one of several top journalists who were given advance interviews for what Disney calls in the interview "the enormously ground-breaking event in comics history" which is a big statement, right?
It is pointed out in the interview, which was quickly taken offline after legal threats from Disney (but the magazine is still out there), that "April Fools Day" starts off April. There is a bit about past Marvel April Fool gags and then it gets to the crunch. Gag
The Avengers have been on a time-quest (anyone remember when Tony Stark went rogue in the final issues of volume 1 of The Avengers?) and this actually ties in with the Avengers Forever series and Immortus. Realising what has been going on in the Marvel Universe and the many multiple threats posed that they cannot possibly defeat, the Avengers join forces with Immortus and later Kang (who is...well you know all that stuff) and "set things right".
Disney/Marvel explain that they thought it was about time to "tidy house -get continuity set and go back to the family company Marvel was -without losing the creative edge". So, remember all those retro "hommage" covers that have been appearing in the last year and constant talk of "Marvels proud heritage"? It was all PART of the build up. Hold on to your seats.....
.....In April, 2015, the Marvel Universe as it exists now will cease. The entire line is being rebooted back to the old 1960s/1970s volume 1 universe!
WHAAAAAT??!!!!!!
Lügner notes that the movies are seen as a seperate "Marvel-film-Universum" - "Marvel movie universe" with all its spin-offs, etc., but that the comics universe will "harken back to the great House of Ideas of that (Silver Age) period"
What is odd, to say the least, is that titles such as The Avengers, Fantastic Four, etc., will continue their numbering from where the volume 1 series' stopped. This is also confirmed by a Japanese journalist named Tekiya who is working on a book on Marvel Comics in Japan "Marvel Okijodan"
Interesting to see how many US bloggers and comic news sites report on this -or will they, as in the past, tow the Disney line so as not to anger their "sources"?
お笑い草
Disney is known as a "family friendly" company -as was Marvel Comics. Archie Comics appears to have tried to take over that mantle. Disney ain't having that.
Disney executives are quite pleased with the money quite literally spilling in from the movie franchise and all the goodies that spin out of that. However, as the statistics show, 'Marvel' Comics are losing money. It's one reboot after another. One number one followed by another number one. "Gimmick" covers to try to cash in that just are not working.
Now, Germanys top weekly magazine dealing with movies and pop culture, Großer Witz, has incurred Disney wrath by publishing an interview in its October that should not have seen print until next April.
We all know this "Eight months Later" thing is going on. The Avengers will shoot ahead to April 2015 while all other titles continue normally. But why? What sense does it make? Why are the Avengers titles months ahead of others?
Eristein Lügner of Großer Witz was one of several top journalists who were given advance interviews for what Disney calls in the interview "the enormously ground-breaking event in comics history" which is a big statement, right?
It is pointed out in the interview, which was quickly taken offline after legal threats from Disney (but the magazine is still out there), that "April Fools Day" starts off April. There is a bit about past Marvel April Fool gags and then it gets to the crunch. Gag
The Avengers have been on a time-quest (anyone remember when Tony Stark went rogue in the final issues of volume 1 of The Avengers?) and this actually ties in with the Avengers Forever series and Immortus. Realising what has been going on in the Marvel Universe and the many multiple threats posed that they cannot possibly defeat, the Avengers join forces with Immortus and later Kang (who is...well you know all that stuff) and "set things right".
Disney/Marvel explain that they thought it was about time to "tidy house -get continuity set and go back to the family company Marvel was -without losing the creative edge". So, remember all those retro "hommage" covers that have been appearing in the last year and constant talk of "Marvels proud heritage"? It was all PART of the build up. Hold on to your seats.....
.....In April, 2015, the Marvel Universe as it exists now will cease. The entire line is being rebooted back to the old 1960s/1970s volume 1 universe!
Lügner notes that the movies are seen as a seperate "Marvel-film-Universum" - "Marvel movie universe" with all its spin-offs, etc., but that the comics universe will "harken back to the great House of Ideas of that (Silver Age) period"
What is odd, to say the least, is that titles such as The Avengers, Fantastic Four, etc., will continue their numbering from where the volume 1 series' stopped. This is also confirmed by a Japanese journalist named Tekiya who is working on a book on Marvel Comics in Japan "Marvel Okijodan"
Interesting to see how many US bloggers and comic news sites report on this -or will they, as in the past, tow the Disney line so as not to anger their "sources"?
お笑い草
It's about time! I'm sure I'm not the only person who views the original Marvel Universe as the 'real' one. Now if only DC would follow their example.
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