Spider-Mouse!

Disney buys Marvel Comics for 4 BILLION dollars. Here’re the gory details: http://www.nydailynews.com/money/2009/08/31/2009-08-31_spiderman_meet_mickey_mouse_disney_to_buy_comic_book_powerhouse_marvel_for_4b.html.

Disney has kept their fingers out of the PIXAR pie (creatively speaking) I have high hopes that they will keep in step with the acquisition of MARVEL. This could be a great day in comic book history, that and the fact that I have always thought Stan Lee would have made a great Walt Disney. Until I hear otherwise, Make Mine Marvel!

EXCELSIOR!

G is for GEEK

All right. It is a well-established fact that I am a geek so I’m not going to go into that any further. That being said, I was on the Marvel Comics website and found something called “Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited”.

“Huh?”

Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited. Check it out here: http://www.marvel.com/digitalcomics/?utm_source=comics&utm_medium=Btn-blwbanner&utm_content=digital_comics&utm_campaign=MDC_TNav. For a yearly fee of $4.99 a month (which they bill as one payment of $59.88) or a monthly fee of $9.99, you have access to Marvel Comics back issues. That’s a 60-year history of some pretty marvelous stuff. Currently there are about 5,000 comics online in their vault and that is growing. “Unlimited access” to full runs of some of the greatest comics ever written and drawn and inked.

Now THAT is some good readin’.

If there are any Marvel Zombies with computers with internet connections on your Christmas list this year check it out. You’ll be happy – they’ll be happy and, Gentle Reader, that’s a win win.