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Everyone knows the tale of Brand X getting bought out by some faceless global conglomerate and going to shit, but does the opposite ever happen?

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[–] stephenc@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

"Great" meaning great gigantic messes of nonsensical fanservice and a flood of movies and shows all tied to each other so if you miss one episode of Obscure Marvel Kerfuffle Re-re-revisited you'll be lost.

You know, like fucking Star Wars is now.

Disney is fucking evil. Fuck Disney.

[–] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Were you around when "The Secret War" series came out in the comics? The plot line ran through every single title in the Marvel catalog. Just keeping up with Spiderman required reading four issues. That strategy of story telling wasn't invented by Disney.

[–] stephenc@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

They didn't have to copy it, now did they? Just because something was shit before something else was shit isn't a fucking excuse.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago

I like it. It's better than every story being inconsistent. I haven't watched all the marvel stuff and don't feel like I missed much really.

[–] Dark_Blade@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

As others have said, something being stupid in the past doesn't excuse it being stupid now. And hey, I'd get it if we were still dealing with a couple movies a year, but now it's a flood of content that nobody can keep up with unless Marvel is their only hobby.

[–] xkforce@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

My dude... the plot lines in comic books were so convoluted that the writers literally came up with an in canon catastrophe to clean up the timeline by collapsing countless alternate universes. Superhero movies being tied to each other and having a convulted mess of a plot that makes you feel lost if you miss "obscure marvel kerfluffle 3 wrath of the plot device" is very on brand for comics based media.

[–] stephenc@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And that's where comic books went to shit, too. Do kids these days really have no real arguments for anything besides citing even more bullshit to support their bullshit?

[–] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago
  • old man yells at comic book
[–] KidsTryThisAtHome@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Disney is literally racist, sexist, homophobic.... Etc. You name it. They cave to China for money every time, even if it's shrinking or even removing black people from their posters