![]() Meaning and art often arise despite the circumstances surrounding their creation, not because of them. It's important to know that this includes me. The Marvel Cinematic Universe is the closest we've gotten to an endgame in this particular business endeavor: a body of ardent corporate stans, willingly committing to seeing two or three movies in a theater every year, sight unseen. ![]() ![]() Writers and artists, working on an almost universally for-hire basis, created sprawling, imaginative universes and vibrant backstories for characters that would then go on to benefit their corporate publishers for decades, outliving their creators and leaving them virtually none of the profits. They are, like some of the first Muppets Jim Henson ever created, friendly faces that exist primarily to sell merchandise. In the least romantic view, stripped of sentiment and familiarity, Spider-Man, Batman, and any of their colorful pals aren't very different from, say, the Keebler Elf. The corporate nature of superheroes has long been one of the biggest cognitive hurdles in pop culture. ![]()
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