"But, a talking sentient genetically engineered raccoon gunslinger? Yeah, that one is a stretch."
I think that Marvel might have bitten off a little more than they can chew on this one. I hope that it doesn't sink their franchise - I like The Avengers and especially like Captain America.
Part of what they had going for them before is while the characters they were telling stories with weren’t that popular in the comics they were well known and iconic. Everybody had heard of Ironman and Hulk and Captain America and Thor. You’ve got to be a pretty hardcore nerd to have heard of GG.
We’ll see in a couple of weeks. It was always the question of the MCU, because Marvel had sold off the “money” characters (Spiderman and X-Men have been their biggest titles for a long time) the MCU was always going to be built from the bench. But it’s a big bench. I think that’s part of why they’ve got Thanos in GG, continuing the plot from Avengers should bring a lot of people in. That was always one of the tricks Marvel used to prop up titles, Dr Strange not selling well (another 4th or 5th tier character getting a movie, though I’m looking forward to that one, love DS)? Well slap Spidey in there for a couple of issues, have him join The Avengers, and what the heck make him face the Fantastic Four’s second biggest nemesis (and for the non-nerds out there there’s not one bit of hyperbole in that sentence all of that actually was done to draw readers to DS in about an 18 month period... didn’t work).
Even though I don’t want to see the movie I’m really kind of hoping it makes the cash. If they can make GG profitable then there’s a lot more “deep bench” characters that I actually like like Dr Strange that are going to get movies.