DC Comics Suing Valencia

[Khalekan]

deepest pockets usually wins...Time Warner it is then

No, I meant La Beckham backed off lol

 

[degsy]

No, I meant La Beckham backed off lol

Ah yes, the 'koff you, you up your own arse blert, aka, the common sense gambit.

 

[Alan Whittle]

they're just living from one horrendous event storyline to another along with endless reboots.

Isn't that Corrie?

 

[Yarrgh]

Well I expect the lawyer's cease and desist to be sent off to Stadio di Wayne straight away so Alfredo the club butler can take it up to Senor Bruce in the Boardroom.

"Donde esta el batmobile? El Joker está en la ciudad!"

(thanks to google translate there)

 

[BirkenheadBlue]

Yeah Marvel aren't winning at anything these days other then with their movies mate. Their comics are pure garbage and have been for years, they're just living from one horrendous event storyline to another along with endless reboots.

lol
Yeah, Jeff Bezos isn't winning at anything other than Amazon either.

 

[Gwladysstreetlad]

lol
Yeah, Jeff Bezos isn't winning at anything other than Amazon either.

So you're confusing two things, Disney is defiantly winning in their battle with Warner Bros. But the actual comic devision aka Marvel COMICS isn't winning anything, the whole industry is suffering right now and Marvel's shockingly bad writing and mostly mediocre art is paying it's part in that.

 

[BirkenheadBlue]

So you're confusing two things, Disney is defiantly winning in their battle with Warner Bros. But the actual comic devision aka Marvel COMICS isn't winning anything, the whole industry is suffering right now and Marvel's shockingly bad writing and mostly mediocre art is paying it's part in that.

I'm really not confusing anything.

Marvel - movies, comics, EVERYTHING is owned by Disney. And Marvel Entertainment (the parent company that owns both the studio and the comics) will be worth more now than at any time - by a factor of god knows what.

Marvel isn't struggling - they're basically the biggest entertainment brand in the world right now. If the comics aren't good at the moment, that's a pity, but to say "Marvel isn't winning at anything other than their moves" [comfortably the biggest part of their output now] is a weird statement whichever way you slice it.

 

[Gwladysstreetlad]

I'm really not confusing anything.

Marvel - movies, comics, EVERYTHING is owned by Disney. And Marvel Entertainment (the parent company that owns both the studio and the comics) will be worth more now than at any time - by a factor of god knows what.

Marvel isn't struggling - they're basically the biggest entertainment brand in the world right now. If the comics aren't good at the moment, that's a pity, but to say "Marvel isn't winning at anything other than their moves" [comfortably the biggest part of their output now] is a weird statement whichever way you slice it.

The comics department is on the brink of closure, it's losing money. You can say that marvel is not a comic company anymore and therefore don't care about it's comic devision and that might be true but if your a fan like me that's a big loss. It might not be to the suits in hollywood who only care about profit today and tomorrow but let's see how that works out for them ten years from now.

 

[BirkenheadBlue]

The comics department is on the brink of closure, it's losing money. You can say that marvel is not a comic company anymore and therefore don't care about it's comic devision and that might be true but if your a fan like me that's a big loss. It might not be to the suits in hollywood who only care about profit today and tomorrow but let's see how that works out for them ten years from now.

I'm not disputing any of that at all. But it's STILL a weird statement - it's like saying "Jeff Bezos isn't winning at anything other than Amazon" because the Washington Post loses money. Or that "Barcelona aren't winning at anything other than football" because their basketball team is doing badly.

Like it or not, Marvel is a movie company first, a comic company second these days.

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

The comics department is on the brink of closure, it's losing money. You can say that marvel is not a comic company anymore and therefore don't care about it's comic devision and that might be true but if your a fan like me that's a big loss. It might not be to the suits in hollywood who only care about profit today and tomorrow but let's see how that works out for them ten years from now.

Disney are rich enough that they'll probably keep the comic division around even if it's losing money, because it's always easier to hook kids if you sell trade collections in things like newsagents

That's how I got into the characters as a youngster, especially Superman (Whose a DC character, but I bought Marvel ones too, usually X-Men)

 

[Gwladysstreetlad]

I'm not disputing any of that at all. But it's STILL a weird statement - it's like saying "Jeff Bezos isn't winning at anything other than Amazon" because the Washington Post loses money. Or that "Barcelona aren't winning at anything other than football" because their basketball team is doing badly.

Like it or not, Marvel is a movie company first, a comic company second these days.

If Barcelona expanded into a clothing line that took off and became massive and became one of the biggest things all over the world while their football team became a secondary priority that was losing money and on the verge of shutting down it really wouldn't be a weird statement to say "Barcelona are losing" to the fans of that product who don't really care about the other departments.

 

[Gwladysstreetlad]

Disney are rich enough that they'll probably keep the comic division around even if it's losing money, because it's always easier to hook kids if you sell trade collections in things like newsagents

That's how I got into the characters as a youngster, especially Superman (Whose a DC character, but I bought Marvel ones too, usually X-Men)

They might be rich enough to do so but they're also rich because they don't waste money on projects that are consistently losing it.

The reason it's struggling is because the younger demographic no longer buys them, why would they? In a world that offers so many alternative forms of entertainment most kids aren't as interested. Increasingly the only thing keeping the sales from getting even worse is collector's buying variant covers.

 

[Gwladysstreetlad]

Well this thread has been massively derailed hasn't it?! lol

 

[McBain]

Well this thread has been massively derailed hasn't it?! lol

This is from a couple of years ago..

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Lets be honest, physical comics will probably go the way of most physical entertainment - dvd, vhs, vinyl etc. Its going to be around in some form but not how it has been succesful in the past. To say Marvel comics is on the brink of closure is ridiculous. Its literally the biggest brand in entertainment. It will just evolve.

And as per the OP - thats the actual batman logo. You cant just rip off a logo coz its an animal. Playboy, Disney, Puma.. you can’t just pinch a logo because you have been around longer.

 

[toffeejack]

Why didn't they sue them for calling batshuayi 'batman' when he played for them as well?