I don’t even do the bit in Jake & Leon anymore. By now we know the drill. When Joe Quesada and his marriage-hating ways left the Editor-In-Chief role, Axel Alonzo didn’t show any signs of changing the big issues. Neither did C.B. Cebulski, and if there were any other EIC’s at Marvel they weren’t very memorable if they were discussed at all. While everyone talks about the Marvel Studios ruining of the comic characters and their own Marvel Cinematic Universe, the comics are barely acknowledged due to the media pecking order and the importance of movies and streaming. Not even television anymore. Disney hasn’t put a Marvel show on ABC since Agents Of SHIELD, and I’m not even sure that’s canon anymore despite starring Agent Colson and Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury making a cameo. Disney has the two Junior shows with a third on the way and that’s it. Just movies and streaming for the MCU, and it’s a question of which is worse for the MCU story.
Meanwhile, DC Comics is kicking Marvel Comics butt, the opposite of Marvel Studios and DC Studios because at least Marvel Studios used to produce good stuff while DC’s done lousy with both Zack Snyder’s grimdark take and James Gunn’s confused and crazy ensemble of losers take. Both companies in comics should be doing better because of the movies and streaming, plus there being more people in the world, but they aren’t. Wacker is the latest sucker EIC in charge of…not so much fixing it as keeping it going so they can make the “important” media out of it.
In a recent report from AIPT, Steven Wacker gave his plans for Marvel’s source material at a Retailer Day event at New York Comic Con. I have a chance to go over it, as well as another report by Cosmic Book News from Wacker’s appearance on the Save The Chat podcast. There’s only one or two things that interest me there, so let’s start with the Comic-Con info:
