Posted: 13 May 2019 at 10:41pm | IP Logged | 8
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Paul Issar wrote:
...But the real issue is what is Marvel Comics going to do when all the old farts running all the comic shops & ordering this stuff die off.Let's face it the majority of comic shops are owned by the Baby Boomer generation & Generation X'ers.. |
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Hey..!!! Don't go trying to knock me off, yet. I hope to have at least a few more years on the planet.
Seriously, though, while the world continues to unquestionably change, and the print media becomes smaller, I've also been hearing talk about comics dying out for almost as long as I've been reading them. As far as the actual format, the printed comic book goes, it's pretty much certain it will go away as nothing lasts forever. It's hard to peg when that will happen, though. I mean it when I say this kind of talk has been going on a long time. The demise of the comic book industry has been predicted as far back as the 1970s. Heck, even in the 1950s it looked grim at some points.
As for what I would do... well here is what I wrote back in 2006:
In that thread, you'll note I point to "Wizard" magazine changing its format as a good thing. Even though the magazine is now defunct, I still stand by what I wrote then in that regard. "Wizard"'s failure had more to do with how it mishandled its shows and ruined relationships with the big publishers, which also affected the magazine. That and that in the internet age, "Wizard" was dated material the moment a new issue came out, depending as it did on news on current events for sales. I still think the comics publishers need to change the format of comics as one means to extend the life of the industry.
But there are many, many things I would change if I had free reign at Marvel, or DC.
Edited by Matt Hawes on 13 May 2019 at 10:42pm
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