The Hot Topic's MARVEL UNIVERSE THE AVENGERS ASSEMBLE T-shirt.

Fantastic recreation of the #4 edition of the Marvel Comics Avengers comic book.

Is Disney doing better – or worse – financially speaking? Well, it all depends on how you look at it…and who you ask.

The company announced yesterday that fourth quarter net income was down seven percent, but is quick to offer many explanations and adjustments that would make that figure smaller.

Once online gamers find a Marvel alternative, will it be hard to keep ’em down on the FarmVille?

It was only last month that Disney purchased game-maker Playdom for more than $760 million. But already the game company, which is a prominent game provider on Facebook and MySpace, is at work on a potentially lucrative project that involves the popular Marvel brand, which Disney acquired almost a year ago this month.

Now that we’ve all seen the iPad and debated its design merits, let’s cut to the chase: This thing will rise or fall on content. If Steve Jobs can get a bunch of cool books and apps on the thing, we’ll want one. If not, we won’t.

Where will His Steveness get some of those books? I say the same place he’s gotten so many movies and TV shows for iTunes in the past: Disney (DIS).