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pzeke:
--- Quote from: cosmicbooknews ---In addition, Ike Perlmutter is said to have demanded the removal of the characters from games and merchandise.
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This I didn't know. Perhaps now we'll get some X-Men characters in Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite...if only as DLC... Maybe.
Anyway, I don't read/collect comics anymore, but do try to keep updated as much as possible, and Marvel was really going down the crapper (not like DC is doing any better, honestly).
burningdoom:
--- Quote from: pzeke on July 18, 2017, 07:58:18 pm ---
--- Quote from: cosmicbooknews ---In addition, Ike Perlmutter is said to have demanded the removal of the characters from games and merchandise.
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This I didn't know. Perhaps now we'll get some X-Men characters in Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite...if only as DLC... Maybe.
Anyway, I don't read/collect comics anymore, but do try to keep updated as much as possible, and Marvel was really going down the crapper (not like DC is doing any better, honestly).
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DC is doing leaps and bounds better. A few years back, when New 52 was happening, I was pretty much done with DC. But since Rebirth, they're books have been stellar and it feels like the real DC Universe again.
pzeke:
--- Quote from: burningdoom on July 19, 2017, 10:13:42 am ---DC is doing leaps and bounds better. A few years back, when New 52 was happening, I was pretty much done with DC. But since Rebirth, they're books have been stellar and it feels like the real DC Universe again.
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Yeah, that's what I actually meant with that comment. I actually forgot that that ended a year ago, IIRC. My mistake for not being more specific.
Flashback2012:
--- Quote from: burningdoom on July 18, 2017, 04:52:52 pm ---
Best comic news of the day...year!
Hell yes! Bring back the real Marvel!
http://www.cosmicbooknews.com/ike-perlmutter-no-longer-marvel-ceo-hallelujah
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Ummm...
https://www.bleedingcool.com/2017/07/18/no-marvel-chairman-ike-perlmutter-didnt-just-step-change-title/
I haven't been much of a Marvel guy in years...well, decades actually, but I'm not opposed to them stiffing studios like Fox and Sony of new content to use in the hopes that rights revert back to them. Same with Universal. At least Sony had the good sense to restructure things and put Spider-Man into the MCU. I seriously doubt Fox will do anything except run their licensed properties into the ground like they did with the FF. Granted the DC Cinematic Universe doesn't look much better IMO (not counting the Dark Knight Trilogy and Wonder Woman, everything else looks horribad). What I can't fathom is how Fox, Sony or whoever can say anything about characters like Wolverine being put in games or including him in toy lines? If I were Marvel I'd be like "piss off, we'll make as many Wolverine toys as we want". :P
As long as Fiege, Gunn, and the Russos don't get too crazy with their liberties then the MCU should be just fine for the next few years. Again, I've not been much of a Marvel guy for a good long time comics wise but I love Love LOVE the MCU and what they've done with it for the most part. As for the comics side, the last thing I picked up from Marvel was Secret Wars (just the main series, none of the tie-ins). I'll probably pick up that Legacies or whatever it's called but probably none of the tie-ins.
Also, in regards to that, I noticed they've gone back to legacy numbering again?! I guess high numbers are cool again for Marvel since DC restored Action and Detective's numbering (though those New 52 issues should NOT have counted towards the totals! >:(). Action #1000 is just over the horizon with Detective not too far behind so I guess Marvel had to copycat that because I saw that Amazing Spider-Man is fast approaching #800. :P
kamikazekeeg:
Don't read many comics these days, but came across an interesting sounding book which is just a short 6 issue series from the guy who did Saga and Y: The Last Man. I generally dug it, I like this fictional setting of America invading Canada and set in the future so there is some cool tech. It's short so I don't want to spoil anything, but it's got pretty good art, violent, and its very Canadian. One of the characters speaks in French most of the time so you don't understand what he is saying and they don't translate it in a sidebar lol
I'd love for them to return to this world as it has interesting possibilities beyond it's Canadian setting.
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