Mo Money Mo Money!

"It will be financed by Paramount Pictures working in conjunction with Marvel Studios, who in turn have a contract with Disney, who presently owns Marvel Comics."

Makes sense. How else can they afford such a great actor as Robert Downey Jr. to save a movie? Or get grown people to dress in $200,000 costumes while doing crappy acting like that Evans kid did in Captain America? I watched that for 20 minutes, and then I popped on Smokey and the Bandit.
W00T W00T!

"How about simply demanding the full fruit of our collective labor in exchange for our hard work instead of the tiny fraction we receive via the wage system?"

So stop buying comics and watching Japanese cartoon shows made for reclusive geeks. That's one way to drop the yen and the dollar.

"Also, you did say you will watch Sunday Night Football, and professional sports are indeed modern "bread and circuses" in the same sense chariot races and gladiatorial arenas were in the days of the Roman Empire.'

See the above reply.