Disney is falling down. People have been saying it for awhile now, but they’re often accused of being right-wingers who want to get rid of minority and women characters, when the “woke” bit is only part of the larger problem. As the former Walt Disney Company has grown more corporate and buying up other media companies for their libraries they’ve fallen away from Walt’s dream and his reminder to always remember “it all started with a mouse”. As modern Disney pulls away from their animated heritage by passing it on to other studios outside of the occasional CG movie not made by Pixar, and they do acquisition after acquisition (anybody remember when Maker Studios tore out Blip for the assets only to be absorbed and vanish into the Disney system never to be heard from again?) they add to the studios that have lost the ability to be creative in favor following demographics, algorhythms, and other statistics. This is a company founded by an animator who wanted more control over his own creations and founded an empire…an empire now in big trouble.
Even Matthew “MatPat” Patrick of Film Theory is seeing the flaws in current Disney operations: the obsession with Disney+, the overblown budgets, and the questionable writing (though he doesn’t call out stereotypes pretending to be representation over good character of a certain group and one-sided sociopolitical perspectives) that all has been leading to Disney’s current failures even at the theme parks. I was originally going to make this a daily quickpost but I found I had quite a bit to say in addition to the video, so it became tonight’s feature instead.
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BW’s Daily Video> Even Comic Drake Sees Marvel & DC’s Mistakes
One swear in the video.
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Note that he’s not one of those “right wing” commentators. The only similarity between Drake and Eric July is that they live in Texas and love comics. Unless Drake also has a band and I missed him mentioning it. And yet Comics By Perch (who is politically neutral) and July, a Libertarian, have said the same things on their channels. Perch has suggested using manga as an example as has Just Some Guy (liberal but not far left), while July was calling out comic’s outdated business and distribution model before starting his own company following his own advice, and Rippaverse Comics is off to a good start. I still maintain the “floppy” has its uses (funny thing is that article also includes a Comic Drake video on the subject) but DC and Marvel forgot that because they didn’t understand WHY trades sold so well and just demanded every comic write for the trades, essentially just making graphic novels. However, these solutions that Drake and others have mentioned at least should be explored.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on August 16, 2023 in Comic Spotlight and tagged Comic Drake, comics, commentary.
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