But I don't think Bob is wrong about marvel's long term game plan.

which is what

Despite Japanese comics doing gangbusters in their home market and aborad. The folks working marvel probably think print media is drying. So their long term plan is movies.

This is probably brought on by the idea that their *woke* ideas can't be failing on their own merits.

So it's just gotta be the media is dying. So movies are the future. They gotta plan for the futre. In their minds that means they've gotta futureproof it.

That means "diversifying" their stuff so they have a BK Kids club to replace their aging actors.

You can actually see what they would consider a success in how much money Black Panther made.

But here's the thing

jesus that guy was soyyeddd

It can't last forever

Bob is wrong in that the diversity push is not going to make comic book movies last forever. The domestic and international markets will get sick of them at some point.

I expect it will happen not more than a few years after avengers 4

If they're real unlucky it will happen just as they're introducing Characters like Riri Williams and X-23 in their own solo films.

The Chinese didn't like Black Panther much.

That is another problem

Maybe it's just (((hollywood's))) own doing. But a "diverse" character might have a more narrow appeal. Chinese might like x-23 (she's asian in the comics, not hispanic Progressive stack much?)

but they won't got out for black panther.

But thanks to a century of hollywood, EVERYONE is disposed to accepting white actors.

lol i'm glad i have left the nerd plantation forever

i could careless about media of any form and they can go fuck them self

Let's not even get into how they haven't accounted for how unbelieveably racist asians are against other asiains. The whole chinese/korean/japanese triad thing will likely bite them in the butt too.

Korean Hulk? Chinese and Japanese do not want.

I noticed Marvel set part of Dr. Strange in Hong Kong. They are trying to appeal to the Chinese market.

Also as an aside these successor characters are all horribly concieved and written. They might get some traction placing these chacters into older stories starring the original characters. But it won't be enough.

So long story short. because comic books are creatively stagnant the movies will eventually fail.

This is going to create a void

And Hollywood will ask itself a question

What are the kids into?

Or rather, what are the adults who were kids 20ish years ago will lots of disposable income into when they were kids?

And they look across the sea.

Agreed bambam, I was expecting to hear marvel had a nefarious marxist agenda

Other than that idgaf

What?

Anyhow they will see all those lovely little IPs cultivated by the little nerdlingers yet again. Oh, and what this? The African American demo loves them some Dragon Ball Z

when i asked what marvels plan was, i didn't expect an answer about their business model, but more about pushing cultural marxism. bambam said he was glad he left the nerd plantation and doesn't care about media, i'm agreeing with that sentiment.

What do you mean, IPs?

Intellectial properties.

Please save your questions (except for stuff like what are IPs?) until the end of the lecture. 😏

I'm still in the process of getting to that.

As a related aside I think one of the big appeals of anime, etc is becuase due to Japan's isolation it doesn't have a lot of cultural baggage. this extends to the media they produce.