Reed Tucker on the Marvel/DC rivalry
New York Post columnist Reed Tucker writes an item on all the Marvel/DC movie possibilities in development, and points to how they've maintained an almost juvenile rivalry for more time than one might think:
"When either one of them talks about the other, no matter who it is in the company, there's tension and rivalry," says Gerry Gladstone, co-owner of Midtown Comics. "There is a rivalry almost to a childish point. It's been there since Day 1."Indeed. And since the 1990s, it's gotten to the point where they sought to put a copyright on words like "mutant" and "metahuman". And you know how much this may have undermined storytelling quality in both companies? That's why I find their rivalry really dismaying, because they took it to such extremes as to go sue each other in court over a few trivial words that wouldn't affect the sales and success of either company, which may have diluted scriptwriting quality not just for the two of them, but even for other smaller companies that may have been affected by any legal procedures.
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