Comments on: Top 300 Comics for October 2008 http://www.majorspoilers.com/archives/8395.htm/ We know you love comics. We do, too. Sun, 08 Nov 2009 06:52:10 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Slappy http://www.majorspoilers.com/archives/8395.htm/#comment-89204 Slappy Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:28:12 +0000 http://www.majorspoilers.com/?p=8395#comment-89204 While sales appear to be up, volume is down. If the publishers continue the way they are going, then they will not get new readers, old readers will drop off or stop, and then they will try another useless crossover event to change the universe forever until it is forgotten by the new crossover event that will change the universe forever until the next one comes along. When I was a teen and in college, I was ding a great deal. After marriage and children, I cut that in half. If other people follow my pattern, and I know many who have because it life, New readership will not widen. Sometimes keeping it simple is good. Not everything need to be so complex that you need 20 yeof clues to finally get it. Sometimes you do not even need to answer the question. What was I talking about? What about those Giants!! Long Live the Legion!!!! While sales appear to be up, volume is down. If the publishers continue the way they are going, then they will not get new readers, old readers will drop off or stop, and then they will try another useless crossover event to change the universe forever until it is forgotten by the new crossover event that will change the universe forever until the next one comes along.
When I was a teen and in college, I was ding a great deal. After marriage and children, I cut that in half. If other people follow my pattern, and I know many who have because it life, New readership will not widen. Sometimes keeping it simple is good. Not everything need to be so complex that you need 20 yeof clues to finally get it. Sometimes you do not even need to answer the question.
What was I talking about? What about those Giants!!

Long Live the Legion!!!!

]]> By: ykw http://www.majorspoilers.com/archives/8395.htm/#comment-89198 ykw Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:24:55 +0000 http://www.majorspoilers.com/?p=8395#comment-89198 "The most expensive was Gemstone’s Uncle Scrooge #380 with the high price of $7.99. While there are a lot of $3.99 books, $2.99 still rules the roost (barely), but I really hope the big publishers don’t look at that Gemstone book, and think it would be a good idea to raise prices that high." What are the Gemstone books, 80 ad-free pages, squarebound, cardstock covers, high-quality interiors? If Marvel wants to roll its line over to that exact model, folding books like IRON MAN and MS. MARVEL into the MIGHTY title, or IRON FIST and NEW AVENGERS into a SPIDER-MAN title, I'd be glad to follow. I mean, every book a low-end graphic novel? Team books with all their members' solo features in the same book? What's not to like? “The most expensive was Gemstone’s Uncle Scrooge #380 with the high price of $7.99. While there are a lot of $3.99 books, $2.99 still rules the roost (barely), but I really hope the big publishers don’t look at that Gemstone book, and think it would be a good idea to raise prices that high.”

What are the Gemstone books, 80 ad-free pages, squarebound, cardstock covers, high-quality interiors?

If Marvel wants to roll its line over to that exact model, folding books like IRON MAN and MS. MARVEL into the MIGHTY title, or IRON FIST and NEW AVENGERS into a SPIDER-MAN title, I’d be glad to follow. I mean, every book a low-end graphic novel? Team books with all their members’ solo features in the same book? What’s not to like?

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