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halcyonstarfish:

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I’m starting to think it might be better to share news from Bleeding Cool rather than places like CBR whenever possible. Bleeding Cool actually cares enough about these franchises and characters to raise questions and make pertinent observations about both good AND bad corporate behavior.

CBR would never jeopardize their good standing with Marvel by being too critical of the company’s business practices. They rely too much on exclusive interviews and receiving early promotional content.

Sad thing is they had made so much space for younger characters be removing X-men and FF from this picture. And sure, they piut few – America, Kamala, Sam, Miles, Daisy, Skaar, but overall it’s a ton of old, often horribly obscure “classic” characters and nothing else. One Young Avenger, no Runaways (old or new version), no one from Avengers Academy or the Initiative, even Old Loki instead of Kid or Teen Loki. Meanwhile Ego the Living Fucking Planet is here. Because we sure need more of him, right? He has such a dedicated fandom!

And by the way, look, they have literally one gay character in the entire picture.

Fuck, there are few characters even I don’t recognize, like whoever is that guy with a spear between Strange and Bullseye & Vision. Would putting Karolina Dean, Julie Power, Hulkling or Striker be such a problem? You kicked out so many characters to spite Fox, and what you put in their place? Same old shit!

Part of me wants to believe the choices were intentional as an attempt to get the higher-ups to stop being stupid, but realistically, I think Marvel just doesn’t know what they’re doing.

It’s possible the selections were purely scattershot, lazily taking whatever can be found and using it, but it’s also possible they deliberately picked obscure characters because they’re getting cocky. “If we wanted, we could make any character into an A-lister! We’re running things here, the fans should just shut up and accept whatever we say.”

I’m not saying that attitude is definite, only that it’s possible. I think the forced retcon on Wanda and Pietro, treating the X-Men franchise poorly, moving to replace the X-Men with Inhumans, all of that feeds into a strong chance they have huge egos about their control over their IPs.

Marvel Mighty Heroes And Trends International On Removing X-Men Characters – Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movie, TV News

halcyonstarfish:

salarta:

I’m starting to think it might be better to share news from Bleeding Cool rather than places like CBR whenever possible. Bleeding Cool actually cares enough about these franchises and characters to raise questions and make pertinent observations about both good AND bad corporate behavior.

CBR would never jeopardize their good standing with Marvel by being too critical of the company’s business practices. They rely too much on exclusive interviews and receiving early promotional content.

Yep, CBR’s really more of just another mouthpiece for the big two companies than an actual site anymore. It’s even spilled into their forums and what discussions they will and won’t allow. If the reaction to bad behavior is tame enough it can be ignored, it’s allowed, but if there’s a serious risk to sales or reputation for bad actors on the line, they step in.

They get exclusive interviews and the like, but they sacrificed any integrity they had as a separate entity in their own right to secure that exclusive content.

Marvel Mighty Heroes And Trends International On Removing X-Men Characters – Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movie, TV News