Holy Shmoly! Disney to Buy Marvel

Here's the news.

And here's the official press release from Disney.

Go here to listen to Disney's webcast for investors.

According to the webcast, John Lasseter of Pixar met recently with Marvel creative execs and [I'm paraphrasing] the group got very excited quickly. They are going to look at all of the opportunities and some exciting product can come from this.

I have a buddy who works on Disney's comic books.... I wonder how this affects what he'll be doing....