Monday, April 22, 2024

Adding Marvel movie originals to the comics universe is no longer an event

Superhero Hype talks about a character from the Marvel movies making her debut in the Marvel comics as well, though here, it appears to be an issue from a modern volume of the What If? anthology, combined with Venom:
From Agent Colson to Darcy Lewis, there are many MCU creations who were later officially introduced into the comics. Madisynn, the party-girl who befriended Wong in She-Hulk: Attorney At Law just made her first appearance in a Marvel comic… but not where you think!

Rather than appearing in a Doctor Strange or She-Hulk comic, Madisynn’s cameo came in What If…? Venom #3. Written by Jeremy Holt, with art by Manuel Garcia, the comic explores an alternate timeline where the Venom symbiote bonded with other people besides Eddie Brock after separating from Peter Parker. In this issue, the symbiote bonds with Doctor Strange, after he confronts it Chinatown shop.
Even if this had taken place in the 616 universe proper, the time's long past where it could matter. Back in the mid-1980s, Marvel's writers decided to introduce a counterpart for Firestar from the Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends cartoon of the time into the MCU proper, and it did lead later to a significant role for Angelica Jones in the New Warriors. But today, when bad and woke writing's long trashed continuity and character integrity, that's why it no longer matters.

Also worth pondering is that, as John Nolte at Breitbart notes, with the movie sales waning, Marvel studios is scaling back their output:
No matter how you spin it, these layoffs stem from one primary problem… This “reduction in Marvel’s slate of film and TV titles” was caused by lousy products. Almost all of those “film and TV titles” stunk, so Disney chief Bob Iger has called for a slowdown of The Fail.

Marvel movies have started flopping at the box office. Marvel’s streaming shows were always so terrible and did nothing to boost Disney+ subscribers—quite the opposite. Disney+ is losing millions of subscribers and billions of dollars.

[...] Marvel lost the real Black Panther, emasculated Thor, showed us two hairy guys necking in Eternals, and who knows what they were thinking with that Ant-Man movie… But The Marvels is where audience disgust with all this gay/woke/feminist/anti-fun finally had itself heard. Enough! Can we get back to Iron Man’s private jet and stripper pole, please? You know, some fun, some sexiness…? How about going back to making Marvel movies for Normal People?
Sadly, it's doubtful they'll reevaluate how their woke directions have wrecked their prospects. But what's really sad is how Marvel wound up becoming victimized by political correctness as a publisher, and a shame they didn't stop publication in the early 2000s, if that's what could've minimized the damage. Publication of the comics had to continue for this?

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