It was a Day like any other day. Zach Joiner was Avoiding the Boss, Brad Douglas, for you see, Zach has been late on the Amazing Spider-Man Family Reviews, and BD was on the hunt Zach kept a low profile, but got found anyway told that he had to review this year Annual due to Mike Bailey being awesome and giving it to him because it has CLONES in it.

Amazing Spider-Man issue 25. Let’s forget about the fact that if Liz and Betty shaved their heads we wouldn’t be able to tell them apart. First Mary Jane from the neck down. Too bad that flower is devouring her face.

On the morning of August 31^st 2009 the comics industry was shocked by the out-of-nowhere news that the Walt Disney Company and Marvel Entertainment had approved an acquisition deal in the neighborhood of $4 billion dollars.  Marvel’s shared surged 26% on the news, which doubtless thrilled the shareholders that will have to approve the deal before the end of the year.  The deal also depends on an antitrust review that it should be able to pass without incident.

This news brought a lot of reaction from comics fandom – some positive, some nervous and some downright scared.  Many  fans are terrified that this will bring some sort of creative doom down on the comics.  While ‘Deadpool & Donald’ isn’t yet-another-Deadpool title we’re likely to see anytime soon changes may in fact occur.  I’m going to examine some of the potential positives and negatives if Disney decides to take an active role in Marvel’s publishing division as well as positives and negatives surrounding the deal in general.  In other words why some should be happy and why some should hold a candlelight vigil for certain current elements of Marvel Comics.

Before I get into it, let me say this up front: I do not think Disney’s going to force Marvel to do much, at least not right off the bat (i.e. next year).  I can’t guarantee that for you; hard though it may be to believe I am wrong every few years or so.

THE POSITIVES…

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AMAZING SPIDER-MAN # 602

Writer: Fred Van Lente
Penciler: Barry Kitson
Inker: Rick Ketcham and Barry Kitson
Story Title: “Red-Headed Stranger: Tenth of September”

Plot

The Chameleon at work. Spider-Man versus “Slyde”. Peter gets a new job with an old boss. Peter in trouble.

The Commentary

Wow.

That was actually really freaking good.

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Evidently this was a promotion for Spider-Man 2. I think the only person that could use it would be Shaq.