I think in addition my problem too is the ominous reduction in options, at least in theory, for a comics creator like me. It's not just this--Marvel would(barring a return of Epic) never have been a market for me anyway. It's that once upon a time, if you didn't do comics that were mainstream, for a while there were viable options. But the indies have imitated the majors in closing ranks and focusing on a few star creators, and in that world, it's become almost like if they can't see idolatry of Charles Schulz in your work, a new creator is fucked. Even that has become a genre unto itself, no longer open to experimentation or anything different unless it's experimental and different in the same way. Mergers like this only tighten the field in general even more.
It's why I am feeling like I want to give up doing comics altogether, after 12 years of trying to keep the determination. There's just no room anymore for something that can't be exploited into a thousand different products.
So it's really that this reminds me of these broader issues.