That was quite the shocker yesterday: Disney swallows up Marvel for $4 billion and nobody much saw it coming.

Mark Evanier has some interesting observations about the deal over here, Daniel Indiviglio at The Atlantic writes about it over here and Cinematical and their readers have plenty to say about it over here.

I’m a lifelong Marvel fan. I worked with Disney for years when I was involved in managing Disney On Ice Web content. I get that it’s arguably a great deal for both companies.

Still, no matter how much I read about the deal, my Spidey-sense is tingling. I can’t shake the feeling that somehow the characters created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko and so many others will never quite be the same.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, September 1st, 2009 at 9:14 am and is filed under This 'n' That.