My wild ass guess? THey're positioning it to go back to marvel in time for the movie in 2009. The reasons?
- They are going to do a full blitz of marketing around the movie, and need a bigger distributer than the small houses that they have been working with.
- They are already in bed with marvel on the legends figures, so they don't want to get into conflict.
- Marvel has a bigger promotion resume, and knows video game licensing, and movie making promotion better.
- And the franchise started with marvel, so it won't be hard to generate a lot of huge buzz, if they take it back to marvel, and get larry penning it again.
toys.
On the face of it, it's a logical move, but who knows if it's the move that they'll make.