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(via Marvel Editors Literally Killing Anyone Who Mentions X-Men or Fantastic Four)
Even in parody form, it’s nice to see so many people and sites pointing out the exact same thing I’ve mentioned and complained about for several years, both for Marvel as a whole and Polaris specifically. Marvel’s current course helps nobody except Fox and specific people working on the Avengers franchise.
Note I said people, not the Avengers franchise itself. It hurts the Avengers franchise too, far more than it could ever help.
Marvel’s taking on Base Breaker style changes not just for specific
properties, but for all of Marvel. If you want to see how that worked
out, look at Soul Calibur. Soul Calibur V’s changes, kicking out major
beloved characters and replacing them with random new ones, literally
cut that game’s sales in half. Soul Calibur only exists today as a free
to play online game that people hardly talk about.And there isn’t an audience Marvel is gaining as a result of mistreating the X-Men and Fantastic Four franchises.They’re only losing fans they don’t need to lose, and the money and positive buzz that comes with them.
This behavior puts a block on good stories that could be told, like Polaris and Scarlet Witch as sisters. It turns Marvel fans against each other, fuels a toxic environment. People that love the pedestal given by Avengers and those put down by it will fight with each other, and that infighting does not breed intrigue. It breeds avoidance. On sight of this kind of infighting, how many people are really going to think “Yeah, I want in on that action”? Most potential new fans will instead think “THAT’S what being a fan is like? Nope, nope, I’m outta here.”
The Marvel universe has so much potential. It deserves better than petty corporate sabotage and ego trips.
Please read this article it’s fantastic.
Oh and Salarta’s commentary is good too.
The phrase “Cutting off one’s nose to spite one’s face” comes to mind. Again. Still.
Also: I like how they’ve put lockjaw riiight up there in the front, in a desperate, and not totally transparent push to get someone– ANYONE– to give a shit about the Inhumans. “Look! We have puppies! People like dogs, right? The X-men never had a dog. C’mon! READ it!”
lol if Inhumans were worth shit they wouldn’t have to be turned into Nu X-men.
This is precisely one of those cases that I think proves my point about how Marvel is only hurting themselves.
I firmly believe any character or franchise has good qualities in its own right, it’s all a matter of understanding what those qualities are and then effectively presenting them to the world in a way everyone can see them. This includes the Inhumans. I think the Inhumans have their own meaningful and unique aspects that, if handled properly, could make for some great work.
Marvel trying to turn the Inhumans into “Nu X-Men” tosses nearly all of that in the bin. The Inhumans will never be as popular as the X-Men if they’re turned into “Nu X-Men,” and they’ll be even less so if the rumors about Marvel trying to turn the X-Men into “Nu Inhumans” turn out to be true. Both efforts make X-Men fans hostile toward the Inhumans and any potential they might have in their own right.
There’s a damn good chance that even if Marvel somehow gets everything they want, a good chunk of X-Men fans will never accept the Inhumans now. And it’ll be a direct consequence of Marvel’s efforts to undermine the X-Men.
Marvel might think upsetting a few hundred thousand comic book fans is a drop in the bucket, but it has a Streisand effect that can result in non-readers spending much less on Marvel merchandise and films than they otherwise would have. Between complaints about Black Widow’s writing in Age of Ultron and Renner’s sexist remarks, complaints about whitewashing the Maximoffs, lack of representation of women on merchandise and now the pissing match with Fox all becoming big mainstream news, Marvel’s going to be hurting soon.
In fact, they already are. They’re still “on top,” but Age of Ultron has been behind Avengers for sales despite its greater hype, and it fell into third as soon as some real competition hit theaters.
(via Marvel Editors Literally Killing Anyone Who Mentions X-Men or Fantastic Four)
Even in parody form, it’s nice to see so many people and sites pointing out the exact same thing I’ve mentioned and complained about for several years, both for Marvel as a whole and Polaris specifically. Marvel’s current course helps nobody except Fox and specific people working on the Avengers franchise.
Note I said people, not the Avengers franchise itself. It hurts the Avengers franchise too, far more than it could ever help.
Marvel’s taking on Base Breaker style changes not just for specific
properties, but for all of Marvel. If you want to see how that worked
out, look at Soul Calibur. Soul Calibur V’s changes, kicking out major
beloved characters and replacing them with random new ones, literally
cut that game’s sales in half. Soul Calibur only exists today as a free
to play online game that people hardly talk about.
And there isn’t an audience Marvel is gaining as a result of mistreating the X-Men and Fantastic Four franchises.They’re only losing fans they don’t need to lose, and the money and positive buzz that comes with them.
This behavior puts a block on good stories that could be told, like Polaris and Scarlet Witch as sisters. It turns Marvel fans against each other, fuels a toxic environment. People that love the pedestal given by Avengers and those put down by it will fight with each other, and that infighting does not breed intrigue. It breeds avoidance. On sight of this kind of infighting, how many people are really going to think “Yeah, I want in on that action”? Most potential new fans will instead think “THAT’S what being a fan is like? Nope, nope, I’m outta here.”
The Marvel universe has so much potential. It deserves better than petty corporate sabotage and ego trips.
My cosplay shots are in from C2E2 Crown Championships of Cosplay!
I didn’t place, but that was because I was just too good. Wouldn’t have been fair to everyone else. 😉 (jk)
Lady Thor blowing it up!
Cosplay 100% made by me (it was in a cosplay championships, lol, duh, right?) Armor, boots, helmet, breastplate, hammer, all made from Worbla. The cape is wool. The belt is leather, the front flap of the skirt is suede and gold leather. the longer skirt is a faux suede. My actual hair. Tattoo is real. ❤
My hammers are on commission. $150 (plus shipping) for a hammer of your own. Details and design individual to your specifications and desires.
These pictures are available for editing. The Photographer says it’s OK to edit them, but we CANNOT SELL THEM. If you want to photoshop, feel free, its free, but FREE. You don’t have to buy these, but you can’t sell these. Just sharing. DON’T BE THAT PERSON WHO RUINS IT FOR EVERYONE. 😉
Photos by Ronald Ladao
When you do shit like this I get angry. If you tell me they are not family then go f*** yourselves but don’t do shit like this.
I hope a good writer comes along one day and says:
F*** this shit, I’ll make them a family again.
There are a couple things I can say about this.
One is that the artist said at some point that the comparison wasn’t intentional, that it’s simply a common motif. I also know Bunn likes writing all the characters and their relationships when he can.
BUT! I’m pretty sure most people at Marvel want the family back together. Regardless of why and how the cover came about, I know artists and writers at Marvel are really at the mercy of people above them. A writer might really want to write the whole family together, only for a Disney or Marvel executive to prevent it because of their corporate slapfest with Fox.
That’s the main reason, I think, why we don’t have a Magnus family focused book coming out of Marvel right now (Secret Wars House of M doesn’t count due to its brevity and nature), and why they forced the retcon. It’s not that a writer doesn’t want them together, it’s that the higher-ups care more about money and their egos than what fans want or what’s actually good for Marvel and stories.
More commissions from Dallas fan expo. I forgot to take pictures of some of them before I handed them off to there new homes 😞 Hopefully the people that got them will take a pic and post them on their own social media to share 😉
I don’t think there is enough GREEN HAIR appreciation here on tumblr, so here you are, some pictures of MY green hair, to celebrate the greatest color in the world. GREEN!
Reblogging my green hair for salarta 🙂 I might have lived as Polaris for a year. Oops.
These all look amazing! There’s a real variety here too in styles. Bottom middle looks stylish and classy (aside from the sweater), third row far right and far left look mix of rock and punk, and several very cool casual moments. Thanks for reblogging. 🙂
Polaris progress. Sort of made up a costume. Used, like, every reference salarta gave me. What do we think tho? I love Lorna so much. I mean, I literally dyed my hair green for a year to be her. I’m out of practice, but I don’t think this looks terrible? It will be full color and for sale.
I think Salarta gave you some good reference. I love it. I like the fact that she’s wearing a new costume and love her composition. I think she looks beautiful and can’t wait to see the final process.
It’s looking great already. 😀 She’s got a great powerful pose going on here, and the X belt is a very nice touch from the refs. Now all we need to do is create the X gene so you can make your hair do that up in the air wavy thing. 😉
Dyeing your hair green for a year is new news to me! Very cool news too. Do you have pictures of that time, if you feel comfortable posting them?
Dump part 2 featuring polaris bc she needs sO MUCH LOVE
Cool! I wonder how all of these would look inked and colored.
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