If the prices are going to be the way they are and more then likely go up, and more story for the price you are paying. More price, more content. --Lavender People may lie, but the evidence rarely does.
-------------------------------------------------- From: "ravenadal" <ravena...@yahoo.com> Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 10:17 PM To: <scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com> Subject: [scifinoir2] Comics: the Problem is the Medium > http://blackgeekdom.com/blog/ > > The problem is the medium not the characters. > > I have come to a conclusion that people love the capes they just dont > like comics. It hard to separate the two because of the close > association between the two. When people see Superman they think of > comic books but they won't buy a comic. My question is why? > > They only conclusion I can come up with is that they just don't like > reading comics. Most devoted comic fans at least those on message > boards seem to think that the publishers are the problem ( with > continuity dense stories) or the price of the comics ( soon to be > $3.99) themselves. I think people don't like or get the medium so > changes in story content or a drop in price won't fix the problem. > > Looking at some numbers from this past year The Dark Knight movie as > of this week has earned $531,006,084, Iron Man earned $318,313,199. > Marvel comics makes twice as much money from licensing than it does > from publishing (In other words they make more money selling > Spider-man toys and t-shirts than they do on the comic book). This > tells me that its money in comic book characters and that comics are a > smaller piece of the pie than we think. > > Smallville is averaging around 4.5 million viewers a week which > translates to to around 18 million viewers a month. If you compare > it to comic sales you will see a disconnect. According to Diamond > which distributes around 90% of comic in the US, the top 300 books > combined for a total of 5,765,870 issues in November, 18 million > viewers for one show vs 6 million in book sales for all comics, to > me it indicates that comic readers are a small group in comparison to > people who have a interest in the characters. I keep thinking about > the Ian Fleming's James Bond character he wrote twelve novels and two > short stories, I have a feeling most Bond fans have never read > these novels. They love the character and the films and yet they > have little interest in the novels. Its gotten to the point where > the novels only come up in trivia contests. I would hate to see that > happen to comics. > > Any suggestions on how we can get more people to read comics or is it > a loss cause ? > > > ------------------------------------ > > Post your SciFiNoir Profile at > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/app/peoplemap2/entry/add?fmvn=mapYahoo! > > Groups Links > > > >
