the House of M(ouse)

yay blog!

so i really am going to blog more.

for real.

just sort of trying to really focus on what this blog should be...

suggestions?

i know with halloween coming, i will likely do something throughout october for that. i'm not sure what, as i know trying to keep up with 31 days of posting was nearly impossible... once a week maybe? (suggestions for topics always welcome - email dave@sleepyrecords.com, subject "halloween blog ideas"

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as for other things....

so disney bought marvel (or something like that. is "bought" really the right word?)

truthfully, i don't see a lot of changes, and see a lot of positives (better distribution, especially with the slow death of the direct market; some properties coming to movie screens in bigger and better ways; disney variant covers - okay, maybe not the last one, though i can definitely see it happening). the movie and tv rights issues might get muddled, but overall i think it's a positive for both consumers and both companies. marvel will now have a better output for their younger reader oriented books, especially for girls (think what DC tried to do several years back with their failed Minx line, only with a better media arm).

what i doubt we'll see is like, when in the mid 90's, disney bought ABC, leading to EVERY ABC sitcom (especially the TGIF shows) going to walt disney world for some reason or another... (interestingly, and there may have been a reason such as an anniversary celebration or something which i truly don't recall). some of them made sense (really, shows like full house and family matters almost HAD to go to disney parks, although i think the plots they cooked up were ridiculous).

but Roseanne?

(here is part one of the multi-episode arc...)

okay, so roseanne was in it's downward spiral years, where the show quality was completely falling apart, and the show was jumping the shark left and right... but a multi-part episode where they go to the magic kingdom???? really? and all for the sake of marketing and "synergy." sad...

so no, I don't see a multi part arc of fantastic four where they take Franklin and Valeria to Disney, and Dr. Doom tries to take over the Matterhorn. Nor do I see man-thing (who, after all is based in the swamps of Florida, similar to where Disney World was built originally) popping up on Splash Mountain (though maybe something where the "nexus of all realities" somehow ends up on the Space Mountain ride... hmm...). but there are a lot of great, realistic possibilities, which could really be good if well played...