When Godzilla was stomping around the Marvel Universe he really didn’t get to meet Spider-Man (though he did have an encounter with J. Jonah Jameson–who somehow survived). In the movies, a second attempt at an American Godzilla film, this time closer to Toho’s concept than the Emmerich homage to US 1950s giant monsters. However, as Bounding Into Comics contributor JB Augustine reports, this would be meeting between the King Of The Monsters and Bruce Campbell was halted because of the Spider-Man and an idiot at Sony Pictures. I know that last one doesn’t point to anyone specific since idiots have been in charge of Sony since the 1990s, but that’s what happens when you put the guy behind Deuce Bigalow in charge of your company.
Marvel Rivals is not my type of game. Following the Overwatch formula, it’s a player vs player third-person shooter in which Marvel heroes fight each other. Nothing new for the Marvel universe, but I’d rather be a hero fighting villains. Narrated by Galacta, the daughter of Galactus (yes, this is an actual comic character from outside 616, Earth-610102 primarily), the basic premise is Doctor Doom making contact with this 2099 counterpart and the result spelling trouble for the multiverse. I’m not heavy into 2099 lore, but I thought their Doom was trying to make up for past Doom’s crimes and be a good person. Maybe I’m thinking of someone else.
The game is produced by the Chinese company NetEase, and being from China might be a concern for some. However, the game is a favorite among Marvel’s fanbase, including former ones that complain about the comics and distance themselves from Marvel Studios. Where the comics and movies/streaming shows are failing, it sounds like this company is succeeding. This is the country that Marvel gladly censors some of their activist additions for because the very strict Chinese government wouldn’t approve of things considered “woke” in the West. They’re also praised for letting female characters be attractive, respecting the lore of the Marvel multiverse, and then producing a game that’s just fun to play. If you like that genre, of course.
A set of articles dropped recently interviewing people involved with the Marvel Rivals project that sheds light on their creative process and how they approach decades of Marvel lore, respecting fans and the source material. If Marvel Comics and Marvel Studios did what NetEase is doing (as well as other studios working on Marvel Games projects), maybe they’d be getting the same level of fan love.
Yes, we’re up to December of 1939. It shouldn’t be long until we reach 1940 in this trip through the Golden Age. We’re still in the anthology years, so we have a lot of stories to go through. Let’s get on with it.
I’ve been spending the day sleeping and watching a playthrough of Assassin’s Creed: Shadows. I already have articles covering this game’s failings leading up to today’s launch here, here, and here, and even in the hours before launch it still managed to get on people’s nerves, the Japanese government’s nerves, the franchise’s fans’ nerves, historians’ nerves…basically everyone it can piss off is pissed off. Watch Az from HeelVsBabyface playing through the game on and off (he’s over 8 hours in just when I stopped to get something out today), there’s also bad AI in a game where you’re supposed to stealthily kill people, odd dialog, and decent visuals. So basically James Cameron’s Avatar franchise is the standard.
Since I’ve gone over this game so much a new angle would be trying to compile a list of everyone mad at this game, but why stop there? The Hollywood mindset, which includes non-Hollywood connected video games (who wish they were Hollywood) and comics (the top two companies owned by Hollywood for lazy idea collecting for the “important” media), has got a lot of people mad and they aren’t afraid to go online and let an uncaring Hollywood, and the people Hollywood keeps trying to get money out of, all about it.
While this won’t be a complete or comprehensive list, since that would take way too long, it is an overview of everyone the entertainment industry has ticked off, because it’s surprisingly not just the fans. I am going to start with them, though.
Where’s the incentive? The big two are owned by companies who only see comics as IP or merchandise, collectibles instead of storytelling. The indie publishers are off doing their own thing, but if they get picked up Hollywood (the same mindset as the people who own the big two) will just alter everything because they used a script they had in the back for years and just used your branding. Comic creators seem to accept comic’s low position in the media pecking order so they don’t try to push comic like they should. That makes it more difficult to have a breakout comic. You have to make the comic good, not just generate a movie proof of concept.
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How Many People Have The Entertainment Industry Ticked Off?
I’ve been spending the day sleeping and watching a playthrough of Assassin’s Creed: Shadows. I already have articles covering this game’s failings leading up to today’s launch here, here, and here, and even in the hours before launch it still managed to get on people’s nerves, the Japanese government’s nerves, the franchise’s fans’ nerves, historians’ nerves…basically everyone it can piss off is pissed off. Watch Az from HeelVsBabyface playing through the game on and off (he’s over 8 hours in just when I stopped to get something out today), there’s also bad AI in a game where you’re supposed to stealthily kill people, odd dialog, and decent visuals. So basically James Cameron’s Avatar franchise is the standard.
Since I’ve gone over this game so much a new angle would be trying to compile a list of everyone mad at this game, but why stop there? The Hollywood mindset, which includes non-Hollywood connected video games (who wish they were Hollywood) and comics (the top two companies owned by Hollywood for lazy idea collecting for the “important” media), has got a lot of people mad and they aren’t afraid to go online and let an uncaring Hollywood, and the people Hollywood keeps trying to get money out of, all about it.
While this won’t be a complete or comprehensive list, since that would take way too long, it is an overview of everyone the entertainment industry has ticked off, because it’s surprisingly not just the fans. I am going to start with them, though.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on March 20, 2025 in Animation Spotlight, Comic Spotlight, Movie Spotlight, Streaming Spotlight, Television Spotlight, Video Game Spotlight and tagged comics, commentary, Hollywood, media, streaming series, Television and Movies, video games.
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