From Tom Brevoort's Tumblr…

Anonymous – Hey Tom. I was just curious as to why Bleedingcool is so antagonistic towards marvel/ For example the whole F4 thing right now seems like grasping at straws. And then theres the article abt Adam McKay rejecting Antman and the other two potential directors were "pawns" to get him. Then of course theres always the occasional news story that Marvel inhibits the control of its writers. I've read so many of these over the years that i've gotten really curious.

Nobody wants to read news stories about, "Marvel is really great!" or "Marvel does good stuff!" The business of a page like Bleeding Cool is to generate revenue through eyeballs on ads, so like any other rumor publication in any other field, they want to print and promote the most provocative stuff that they can—to get your attention, to keep you coming back, and to keep you clicking.

Now that's just not true, and Bleeding Cool happily runs all sorts of positive Marvel – and DC- stories. Some of them are even rather popular. Still, after running a number of DC firing/quitting stories in a row I got a bit of a reputation for being biased against DC, so it's refreshing to see the pendulum swing back.

Anyway, I think the last Fantastic Four piece we ran was in praise of the book and the one before that was in praise of Tom Brevoort's skills. You just can't win, sometimes.

But, just to make the point, if Marvel went away, the comic book industry as we know it would collapse. Almost all the comic stores would have to close. Their very existence preserves our weekly comic book habit that we enjoy so much. They publish Hawkeye, She-Hulk and Superior Foes Of Spider-Man, some of the best superfiction comics around. With Secret Avengers getting close. In their time they've published everything from The One to Groo The Wanderer to Marshal Law to Unstable Molecules to Kick Ass to Dan Slott's Amazing Spider-Man and Kieron Gillen's Journey Into Mystery, so much to love. And in comparison to some other publishers, at least of late, seem to have fostered a happier creative environment than others. And, of late, for the likes of Bill Mantlo and Dave Cockrum, they came through with a little nudging from folk.

So, you know. Thank you Marvel for the good stuff. We can leave the rest for another day.