MARVEL President On Movies Influencing Comics "That's What We Should Be Doing."

If movie success were influencing DC comics... There'd have to be actual success.

Sorry I don't know how to troll.

Marvel movies are the reason I hate Marvel NOW.

"In order to help the print business we need to get as many people as possible excited about the content we're delivering to them, and the less confusing it is for them to engage in our product, the more success we're going to have."

In other words, "We want money."

The comics should be the incubator where ideas are fertilized and hatch. Some die and some grow up to be strong and awesome. A Marvel book came out a few years back that talked about Jim Starlin and all the 70's writers and artists doing acid and walking around Manhattan coming up with ideas. Much of that led to the current cosmic universe. Claremont/Cockrum/Byrne took a failed title and, very much under the radar, turned it into the X-Men that we all know today.

Marvel should let them get weird and freaky and be okay with books failing. Create new characters and deepen the mythology. It shouldn't all be about events and crossover books. I think this guy has it backwards, but what do I know, I'm not sitting in an office somewhere looking at balance sheets.

I think it all goes hand in hand with eachother. If the general audience sees a movie about a character they dont know about like Malekith, it'd be a perfect opportunity for the comics to create a storyline surrounding Malekith etc. It's a hook for new readers.

Same with GotG. When the movie comes out, kids will tune in to the TV show

didn't the president say the movies weren't influencing the comics? lying asshole

the only thing I have to say is, the definitive Thanos books is The Infinity Gauntlet. hands down.

I've been reading these books for a long time, and this, Marvel NOW stuff has got to be the worst product Marvel has ever produced. It's unimaginative, predictable and not very entertaining. The artists usually do not match well with the writer's style and the redesigns of the characters are awful.
The overall editorial direction of Marvel is sort of swirling clockwise and down. This is something that I can only attribute to whatever greedy,bean counting,hack that Disney put in charge.

I think it should be Marvel Comics influencing Marvel films. That goes to all films based on comic books.

I get the business part of having the movies blend into the comics to attract new readers but is it at the expense of possibly losing their older loyal fans?I've recently had a conversation about this with the guys who work at my local comic store and although they told me comic movies do bring in new readers,most quit after a while and their long-term costumers aren't happy about the blending of movies and comics,and are buying less and less.So long term,we'll see if it was a good business decision for Marvel.

And it's been great so far having Rhodey being IP in the comics, controlling his IP army...

It was the best way to try and get him from out of Iron Man's shadow. Cause no matter how "hardcore" War Machine looked, he was still a imitation Iron Man. At least now Rhodey looks more of the leader type than the sidekick who went off on his own.

The so-called "fans" are being needlessly dogmatic about this. The idea the the 'movies should draw from the comics and never the opposite', makes the dangerous presumption that the ideas from the books are always creative. I don't know about the rest of you, but there are plenty of awful ideas in the books that I'm glad will never see the light of day on any live action production. Same goes for certain creative decisions from the movies.

The point is, judge an idea for whether or not it's objectively good, not because it came from the wrong place; that's just arbitrary, and it speaks to how petty and braindead some in this fan community can be. The books aren't sacred religious tomes; they're ongoing, so their respective creative teams can draw from whatever they see fit. Some of you act is if Stan Lee himself is rewriting books from the 60s to reflect the MCU. If something is objectively good, and it integrates seamlessly into continuity, then I don't see the problem. On the other hand, if an idea from the movies falls flat on its face, then that isn't necessarily because "it came from the films so it's shit", it's because it was a poorly executed idea in its own right. This whole 'selling out' argument is kid stuff.

Does anybody like Infinity? Cause i hate it.