Sorry 1978. That's forty years.

After that they tried to get it to work again, but didn't really succeed until 1989's Batman movie

That's another eleven years.

After that they *still* had a ton of trouble translating comics to film. Which doesn't make much sense. You could Literally use a comic book as a storyboard.

and at least part of a script.

true

But they kept plugging away trying to crack that nut. there were some successes (Blade, Spider-Man) but Marvel themselves eventually nailed it so Hard with Iron Man that Disney bought them.

Since then, marvel at least has been cranking it out.

So it took from 1938 to 2008 to really perfect superhero movies. Now it's a major part of the Hollywood landscape. Huge moneymaker.

Now I have to ask you a terrible question. Are you Familiar with Bob Chipman?

yeap

That will save us some time. Watch this (cancer warning) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmXA08jzUfc

Just as an aside let's take a moment to reflect that we live in a world where Bob Chipman Is still alive. but total busicut got butt cancer so bad it turned him into an SJW before it killed him

Darkest freakin' timeline.

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