There is no hotter commodity in pop culture than Marvel Comics superheroes. They’re the powerhouse behind four hit films this year (including the top two in global box office, Disney’s $3.6 billion tandem of “Black Panther” and “Avengers: Infinity War”) and on television they’re featured in 10 live-action series spread across ABC, Fox, Netflix, FX, Hulu and Freeform as well as five more animated franchises.
Don’t expect a break during the commercials, either, where Marvel creations are the costumed pitchmen for Ford, Geico, Infiniti and Rocket Mortgage.
There is one sector, however, where Marvel heroes are not soaring to new heights, one in which they struggle to find new fans — and in a wry twist, it’s in their original medium, in the pages of Marvel Comics.
Superheroes are thriving in movies and on TV — but comic books lag behind
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Marvel’s sales have been low for a long time, and for good reason. They need to pull their head out of their ass and stop with the PC shit.
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Since when does Superhero/Batman/Marvel Studios News cares about the decline of the comic book industry?
Begley lets his buddies post comic book reviews but beyond that he’s too busy posting any pile of crap that will get him clicks and getting embarrassed by Jay Oliva. Hey Chris, do you even read comics or is that one of those things that you “don’t follow”?
And outside of the occasional Stan Lee story Gerber doesn’t even acknowledge comic books. All he does is blow Disney and Fox (unless the merger fails then f*** ’em). Guaranteed tomorrow if (and that’s a big if) there’s a story about Ant-Man & The Wasp’s second weekend it’ll be riddled with excuses about the World Cup final and the “stiff competition” the Hotel Transylvania franchise and Dwayne Johnson are and how the early pass holder Gods AKA Disney anticipated this.
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Marvel Comics have no one to blame but themselves. Regardless of gender, race, etc., what idiot thought it would be a good idea to permanently replace all their major characters? At least DC has the good sense to put alternate versions of their characters in the Multiverse.
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Both Marvel and DC have now been without creativity for YEARS, maybe decades, they still release good stuff once in a while, but they just make publicity stunts and not good stories, that is why they focus in the movies on the first place.
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