Walt Disney acquires Marvel

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I don't know whether to be happy or not. On the one hand, given Disney's current habits, this will do nothing to slow down Marvel's descent into unmitigated sleaze. (Find out how many Marvel characters are now said to have incestuous relationships, you'll be surprised.) On the other hand, it probably represents the final end to the old and bad tradition of Marvel being the cash cow for financial adventurers using it for their own purposes. (Two words: Ron Perelman. I think that using the company you are buying as collateral to have the money to buy it, and thus load it with debt the moment you bought it, ought to pass from the number of sharp financial practices into the register of criminal frauds.) Whatever else may be said about Disney, it is at least an entertainment company, and to that extent its goals are the same as Marvel.

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[super-pan.livejournal.com]

I did read an article about one of the incestuous relationships (don't remember which). Call me a prude, but I can do without that. It's also a weird thing about fandom too, this thing with incest, such as Twincest in HP, Wincest in Supernatural. Personally, I don't get it.

I suppose we'll see how Disney's buying of Marvel will go.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Well, you may disagree, but from my point of view it's not different from slash. And as it happens, I have written both slash and incest myself. What I object to is the obsession of some writers to cast everything in that light, and, in the case of Marvel, the rewriting of the past of heroes that have been around for forty or more years (eg Pietro and Wanda).

[fpb.livejournal.com]

PS: It seems a long time since I heard from you. Welcome back and thanks for commenting.