As Good A Place To Start As Any...

So here I am typing up a Mission Statement to boldly announce the birth of comicdom's 43rd* most essential blog when the mother of all stories breaks. To wit:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8230504.stm

For those click-adverse, here's the scoop - Disney are buying Marvel Entertainment in a reported $4 billion deal. Is it a deal? I don't know. If I had that kind of money, I suppose I'd be trying to buy the rights to make my own Spidey stories.

Further down the line, does this mean the Disneyfication of Marvel's output? What will Walt and his cronies make of Marvel's MAX line, and will they admire Joe Quesada's stance on smoking in Marvel comics?

I'll leave these loftier questions to loftier blogs for the now. In the meantime here's what I want to know:

When do I get my Daredevil/Goofy team-up?

Or for that matter, Ultimate Wolverine Vs Pooh?

When does Dick Van Dyke's Bert the chimneysweep from Mary Poppins get outed as a skrull, thus creating a retconned accent explanation?

Or better yet, let's mash things up, Amalgam Age style - Donald the Hulk? Mickey MODOK?** Time will tell. All I know is that the internet is going to be awash with these kind of riffs within the next 24 hours, so I'm glad I got mine in early doors.

A Mission Statement and introduction of this blog will follow! Hello!

*possibly lower

**prizes to those who can knock up a nice picture depicting these characters! adventuresinlongboxes@googlemail.com