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The thing I'm thinking about today... comics as as an IP mine for other media wasn't really a pivot or something that happened *to* the industry. It was just the logical conclusion of the values that were always there https://twitter.com/MinovskyArticle/status/1294639175984193540
Stan Lee spent an enormous portion of his career trying - and failing - to will the Marvel Cinematic Universe into existence. Isn't that an interesting thing to think about
yeah, we talk about corporatization a lot but you can look at the history and really discern these values at the level of the individual https://twitter.com/knallkultur/status/1294684740566556673
Stan Lee... I used to think of him mostly as a mascot or a marketer but idk. He really did imagine an entire alternate universe for comics history, that whole romantic notion of it. And it persists... maybe not to the degree that it once did, but still
whew, it's just so dark
whew, it's just so dark
the thing about Stan Lee's legacy that confounds me is how some of the innovations he's most praised for are the same ones that have, over time, seem to have most stifled the industry. The shared universe, etc? How was that good...?
I'm sure most of this was settled years ago in the message board wars, please forgive me
I just really wonder... has anyone stifled imagination and growth in comics more than Stan Lee...?
I just really wonder... has anyone stifled imagination and growth in comics more than Stan Lee...?
I get that Lee was a talented entertainer, I really do. That whole show business side of it... there's a part of all that I respect
His real brilliance was in marketing. I think having that kind of mind on the creative side maybe just warped some things, in general
His real brilliance was in marketing. I think having that kind of mind on the creative side maybe just warped some things, in general
