Time for me to put on my tinfoil eyepatch and say that even Bob believes that the MCU, the thing he's more or less centered his life around for over a decade now, is creatively bankrupt at this point.
Of course he does, deep down, but he won't admit it to himself, for the reason you've suggested. He's spent so much time and energy and effort defending MCU slop online, calling it the greatest contribution to Western culture since Homer, etc etc, that he just can't admit to himself his spent all his time defending garbage
The comic creators have gotten paid by selling their ideas and making them into comics
Yeah, I've got hard disagree with you on this and agree with the middle tweet.
The comics creators get paid pittance even compared to the movie screenwriters for their contributions despite the fact that
they created most of this stuff, all these multi-billion dollar films are based on
their work
Chuck Dixon (Batman writer, co-created Bane, also wrote The Punisher) has talked about this. He says that the screenwriters and actors and the directors all have these big unions and they all get paid residuals anytime a film or television show they've been involved with airs on television or gets re-exhibited theatrically or whatever. Comic creators don't get any of that. At best they
might get royalties if a character they created shows up in a film or a TV show, or a video game, or if they make toys out of them
if Marvel or DC see fit to give them royalties, and what they're paid is a drop in the bucket compared to what most of these properties actually bring in and is rarely if ever commensurate with what the creator actually contributed.
Biggest examples are Siegel and Schuster, who created Superman one of, if not the, biggest superheroes of the 20th century and were living in poverty by the time the 1978 movie came out. Of course, Neal Adams convinced DC to give them a 'created by' credit and a lifetime pension but it was still pittance compared to what Superman is actually worth
Another example is how they treated Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko. Jack Kirby, not Stan Lee, basically created the Marvel Universe and Steve Ditko more-or-less completely created Spider-Man. Stan Lee was all like 'Oh I came up with the idea' but he didn't, Jack Kirby did. Spider-Man was like 95% Ditko, 4% Jack Kirby and 1% Stan Lee. And who got paid the most out of those three people? Stan Lee.
I get that all of the preceding was probably not how you interpreted that tweet, but still. The twattertard makes a fair point.
." Fans new and old alike would've loved it, but this is all they do? Did Sam Raimi pull a Rian Johnson? Was he trolling the audience? Is he a secret asshole?