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More on the subject of the Disney Marvel purchase.

I see many people in many places speculating that Disney purchasing Marvel will result in a "softer" Marvel. On one hand, I must point out that in one of our Disney comics, we included: A son killing his father. A man beating his wife. A woman transforming into a haggard corpse shrieking for the death of her child. A man having his eyeball removed. Physical torture. Psychological torture. Police brutality. War. Death. Insanity. And more... On the other hand, I must say: Great. Let's scale it back a notch. What is wrong with making these comics acceptable for all-ages again? It worked fine for decades. Now we face a dwindling and aging readership. A medium that is a shadow of what it once was. And what do people cry out against? The idea that characters that were created as all-ages entertainment might actually cater to all-ages again? Seriously? I'm all for adult entertainment. Personally, I like to read comics where girls with ridiculously inflated breasts in chain m