Get ready for more sequels and franchises from Disney. CEO Bob Iger said on the company’s Wednesday earnings call that its stable of studios will be leaning more into familiar faces in theaters in the coming years. “I’d say we’re leaning a little bit more into sequels and franchises,” Iger told analysts. “I think given the environment and given what it takes to get people out of their homes to see a film … leaning on franchises that are familiar is actually a smart thing.” Iger also noted that Disney would be walking back the strategy it had taken when it launched Disney+ to produce a wave of streaming titles for the service. Marvel Studios in particular leaned heavily into this strategy, releasing the popular “WandaVision” in early 2021 before releasing several more titles like “Falcon and the Winter Soldier,” “Hawkeye,” “Moon Knight” and “She-Hulk” to diminishing returns. “In our zeal to greatly increase volume partially tied to this wanting to chase more global subs for our streaming platform, some of our studios lost a little focus. So the first step that we’ve taken is that we’ve reduced volume, we reduced output, particularly in Marvel,” Iger said. Iger’s promise to make less overall, but more of the titles audiences loved most, is reflected in Disney’s new slate additions… (Article then goes on about new animated Disney/Pixar movies)
A lot of people shit on she Hulk, but as a fan of the street level comics, she Hulk, Howard the duck, squirrel girl, etc. The she Hulk show was actually super accurate to the tone and silliness of the comics. I just wish we had seen her being neighbors with Howard.
Howard in the MCU is hanging out in Knowhere, and showed up in What If…? on Xandar.
I would love a Squirrel Girl series, but I think it will work better animated.
I think the people who shit on She Hulk were hoping for a Hulk show. The entire ending was wild, but I think a lot of the viewers who were hoping for a showdown with Abomination felt personally attacked by the moral lesson. The percentage of reviews that used the term “woke” roughly tracks with the percentage of people who support conservative politicians.
I’d love to see Howard come to Earth for a bit if there is a She-Hulk Season 2, but if not I am still happy Howard got more lines in GotG Vol. 3. That What If…? episode was fun too, it seems like Seth Green has a lot of fun voicing the character.
I’d definitely watch a Squirrel Girl animated series! Milana Vayntrub (the AT&T lady) voiced the character in the Marvel Rising animated stuff and did a great job. It was enjoyable, though definitely for younger audiences. It’d be great to see that pushed a little further with a TV-14 rating or how the original Teen Titans show pushed the TV-Y7 rating to hit on some darker themes and not shy away from Raven’s story.
Howard technically showed up on earth at the end of Avengers end game, to help fight Thanos. They can easily say he stayed on earth to get away from a bounty or something. I’m just a hopeful guy.
I really liked that She-Hulk did something different while bringing a lot of what I loved about the comics to the MCU. It’s awesome to see someone else that was a fan of that office building run! All those comics (I think it was the All-New, All-Different Marvel run and the event just before that) were so much fun. They were the perfect counter balance to the grittier comics I was picking up at the time.
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl was my favorite with Ryan North and Erica Henderson becoming one of my favorite writer/artist teams for clever comedic chemistry, and I did enjoy the Ms. Marvel, Miles Morales and Nova stuff, but there was just something so charming about everyone in the office suites that always sticks out to me.
She-Hulk and Howard the Duck, you get some Jessica Jones in there, and I absolutely loved the Patsy Walker aka Hellcat series. It was like the Office Avengers. The plot line of Patsy trying to get the rights back to the old Patsy Walker comics was hilarious. Ah those were good times, thanks for the memories!
I was hoping in my heart that she Hulk would lead us into a Howard the duck detective series, followed by squirrel girl. I got sick of the badly forced grittiness of the mainstream comics, like a bad imitation of Garth Ennis. So the she Hulk/Howard/squirrel girl stuff I picked up was so much fun for me.