Disney buys Marvel...Words cannot even describe...

There comes a time in everyone's life when they have to really step back and say... "Whoa... What the F*@#!!!" I believe on August 31, 2009... that was one of those days.

I awoke and turned on my computer to find an article on Yahoo! reported by NPR about the acquisition of Marvel Comics by Disney...

All I could say was...

"What the F*@#!!!"

Out of all the stunts that Marvel has been known for... The failure of a starved New Universe... Another less than zero attempt at a new idea given to Clive Barker's unfortunate credit in Razor Line comics... A disastrous Marvel UK attempt... The launch of Strange Tales, Marvel's weak battle cry to DC's Vertigo Line... Nick Fury the Movie... The listless purchase of Malibu Comics... Toy Biz's sad acquisition... The Marvel "MANGA" attempt... Spiderman & Friends kid's toy line to challenge the likes of Rescue Heroes, that went virtually no where...
...
"What the F*@#!!!"

This could quite possibly be one of the worst things that could possibly happen to the comic book industry of the 21st Century.

I look back at the past and see the rise and sheer, utter collapse of so many companies that could have, no should have had so much potential... Jim Shooter and his Valiant Universe was a ticking time bomb... The great acquisition of Malibu Comics by Marvel that completely "snuffed out" that universe... Image Comics was once a huge giant that grew so many limbs that the tree fell down... The birth and death of Acclaim Comics was like the rolling waves of an ocean, Chaos Comics was a dream and then it awoke... Dreamwave productions, one of the Image limbs that fell from the tree and "Cracked" on its downward spiral... the list just goes on... and unfortunately on...

What makes me sad is not so much the move on Marvel's behalf, but a sad day in the history of the Comic Book industry has now been written... This is finally the day when one of the last, GREAT independent companies turned its back on themselves and sold out, not to popularity or pop culture... what good is popularity? No, I am talking about selling out to the idea of what a company should be about, not to build, build, build, just to sell it to the highest bidder, but to build, build, build, and become the best... This is the final resting place for the pinnacle of what every man, woman, and child, that owned a small comic book company, or printed a short run comic book strives for... the possibility of what hard work and perseverance should teach us... Success... Victory... That is what makes me sad...

This century was supposed to be a new century, but as I get older I begin to see reality as what it is and always has been... just... de'ja' vu...