Why the Disney/Fox Merger May Be Bad for the X-Men

So, Disney is buying 20th Century Fox! A lot of folks are really excited about the possibilities of having the X-Men in the MCU, Wolverine and the Thing in the Avengers, AvX, Galactus, and all of the other possible crossover potential. But I find myself apprehensive.

Hollywood's Problem With Comic Book Movies

Doom is not pleased.

Welcome back to the internet's most sporadic comic book blog! I know I haven't written much on here this year, and I'll be honest that that's probably not going to change, but every once in a while I see something so phenomenally great or something so phenomenally dumb that it gets my brain whirring and I have to write something or blood's going to come shooting out of my nose. Today's post is brought to you by the announcement that in the new Fantastic Four film, Dr. Doom will not be named Dr. Doom, nor will he be a Latverian monarch nor even a businessman. He's a computer hacker that goes by the handle DOOM. Take a guess as to whether I regard this as phenomenally great or phenomenally dumb. Go ahead. Guess.

Here's the thing, I can understand how this came about. I can even sympathize with why it did. I mean, I can see the thought process of this change. I used to blame the suits at studios for things like this, but I'm rapidly beginning to understand that a lot of this kind of dumb can be laid at the feet of the creative types, and I think I've finally figured out why.