Just a quick defence of Dark Horse's mainstream penetration: they have Hellboy, who certainly beats Spawn in recognition.
Oh? I didn't know that. Interesting... to say the least.
Although, wouldn't this possibly cause them to pass up the comic book market if this Marvel-DC plays its cards and get its lobbyists?
EDIT: I just realized how much this might tar the comic book industry by association with this, which is quite disturbing, to say the least.
Comic book lobbyists? I don't think they really exist at that time. If they do exists, I can't believe that they would be more influential and successful at saving a potential Marvel/DCU monopoly than the lobbysists with the much bigger and better funded lobbying groups were for Bell Telephone.
Torqumada
For that matter, why was Jim Shooter kicked out? I have to say, I LOVE the ideas he put forth in his comic book universe, and can definitely see how Valiant from it could be a good alternative to Marvel and Image comics.
Because he ended fighting with everybody in Marvel. Look at the writers and artists who left Marvel to DC in the '80s. He was basically the Joe Quesada of the '80s, in that he had good and bad ideas and didn't distinguish between them, for not speaking of his political orientation, "somewhat to the right of Genghis Khan", I have heard it described.
DC characters aren't very interesting in a Marvel setting.
Hmmm, I could see manga making the jump overseas earlier to compete with DC-Marvel.
What would I like to see is Time-Warner buying Marvel at the time of its bakruptcy (around 1997).
DC characters aren't very interesting in a Marvel setting.
Hmmm, I could see manga making the jump overseas earlier to compete with DC-Marvel.
This has many interesting implications, especially since it may have higher quality than the anime in the 90s frequently had, and additionally, would definitely form interesting competition. Manga have very different story writing and artistic styles than comic books, especially the latter, which will lead to... interesting implications.
Now THAT would be interesting…
Well, it wouldn't be an exclusively Marvel setting, and I would think otherwise, especially in regards to the JLA and Avengers being in the same setting.
Manga was already starting to trickle over to the US in the 90's, though it took until they stopped trying to flip the books around for american readers for it to really take off.
It depends upon what genre of manga you're talking about here, manga isn't a single type of art or storytelling (like some people seem to think it is), and it actually has it's own series of genres that are in many ways much more diverse than anything the American comic industry has. (Which is part of the reason why Manga now makes up the majority of the comic market in the US)
And then there's also Webcomics to consider. While most of them don't make any money, they do take eyeballs away from the printed stuff, and also offer greater variety of their own sort.
And then there's also Webcomics to consider. While most of them don't make any money, they do take eyeballs away from the printed stuff, and also offer greater variety of their own sort.
Actually, if JLA and Avengers were in the same universe, i can see the Avengers taking on more intergalactic villains who were threatening Earth (therefore making use of the "Earths Mightiest Heroes" moniker) like Thanos or Darkseid, while the JLA could be simply renamed the Justice League and take on more Earthbound threats like the Masters of Evil.
Actually, if JLA and Avengers were in the same universe, i can see the Avengers taking on more intergalactic villains who were threatening Earth (therefore making use of the "Earths Mightiest Heroes" moniker) like Thanos or Darkseid, while the JLA could be simply renamed the Justice League and take on more Earthbound threats like the Masters of Evil.