According to Deadline, Marvel Studios’ Marketing department, essentially three people, has been released.  I don’t know what this means–as in, was it an act of vindictiveness by Disney (the owners of Marvel) or is it simply that they were redundant, and it was decided that what they did would be better handled in-house.

While it hurts to hear about anyone rendered unemployed in the current brutal economic situation, I would at least hope that the latter is true (such a sentiment won’t put food on anyone’s table, but rampant corporate power and greed, seemingly unconcerned with the welfare of anyone, is primarily responsible for our current economic straits).

And while I don’t mean to sound like a selfish ass, the most important thing is that Disney’s action doesn’t hamstring Marvel’s attempts to get their product noticed.  I don’t see this as an issue with the characters like Captain America or Thor, but what upcoming efforts to launch second, and even third, string characters?