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Originally Posted by Rather Dashing
It would be everything I'd ever dreamed...with the wrong show. Seriously, I love Weisman's work on Gargoyles, but Spectacular Spider-Man falls somewhat short of spectacular.
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How so? I realize the airing of the episodes has been extremely odd for the US, but that's the only major complaint I've had (and it's actually becoming annoyingly typical - Wolverine and the X-Men has same problem).
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Originally Posted by purple_monkfish
I have to wonder if this has been in the works for a while and if it actually explains why they screwed SLG over with the comics licence. Kingdom comics may be the first part of their merger or a subsidery of Marvel? Makes sense to obtain a large publisher if you want to start producing your own comics after all.
I wonder what this means for the disney comics that got cancelled thanks to the slg thing. Will we get another series of Gargoyles? Or some more Haunted Mansion?
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I presume everyone commenting on the Gargoyles comic bough the second Clan-Building trade paperback and the Bad Guys: Redemption trade that just recently came out. If you haven't, say so and I'll avoid spoiling anything in this discussion.
I don't know about Kingdom comics being a precursor of the Marvel acquisition as I don't know how long this merger has been in the works. However, strictly speaking, the SLG comic wasn't really screwed over. Gargoyles was apparently one of the best-selling comic for SLG ever; the licensing fees just took a lot out of it, keeping it from being equally profitable. When the license contract expired, Disney wanted a higher fee - one outside of SLG's budget. It's more that Disney felt they weren't making enough profit (much the same reason they've never released the second half of Season 2 on DVD). Combined with the sporadic release schedule, the comic was having problems without Disney doing anything. Overall, most people admit the trade paperback format probably would have been a better choice than attempting to maintain (bi-)monthly issues.
As to the potential developments, Marvel actually did a short Gargoyles comic book run back when Michael Eisner was seriously considering buying the company to counter Warner and DC. It was canceled back when Marvel went through its major financial crisis in the nineties. However, while there is some history there, but it still looks like SLG founder Dan Vado is still the best bet for more of Gargoyles in comic form (though he doesn't think much of basically paying one of a Big Dog of Comics to license a title). Haunted Mansion I know was the other property SLG was still interested in (Tron and Alice were not going to be renewed - I think Tron at least was always planned as a six-issue series anyway).
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Originally Posted by Rather Dashing
Considering the art in the SLG Gargoyles comic was...um, inconsistent at best, it would be great if Disney would let Weisman do some comics with marvel. Really, all I was going into it for was his writing, which was excellent.
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A lot of the artistic inconsistency was due to having multiple different artists over the course of only a few issues. Bad Guys was better in that regard since all but one issue was done by Karine Charlebois (Greg Guler from the original series did the covers).