Saturday, March 22, 2008

Viral Marketing Or Disgruntled Employee?

The Internet comic book community has been mildly abuzz lately about this blog, purportedly belonging to a low-rung Marvel employee who's become increasingly dissatisfied with his lot in life at the House of Ideas. Lately he's been posting apparent spoilers, including several pages from an upcoming issue of New Avengers (or so I've heard.. he then received a Cease & Desist letter from Marvel Legal and subsequently took it down, the story goes).

So is it legit, or just a subtle viral marketing ploy to get more people talking about what's going on at Marvel these days? Well, the blog very recently identified one of four Skrull imposters (part of the upcoming Secret Invasion big crossover series) and that hardly seems like the thing Marvel would do to itself (if true)... but I guess we'll have to wait and see if the other three also get outed! Definitely fun to watch these days...

[Update: Not sure what to make of it, but just now when I tried to check the aforementioned marvelboy's blog it appeared to have been deleted!]

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