Well, there's a reason why the top movie of the summer has the most previews, and why the Super Bowl has so many commercials that you forget there's a game going on. When you know there are people looking, that's when you advertise. Not the other way around. Why spend money (and it does cost money to print or insert these ads) to reach 10,000 people, when you could potentially reach 250,000? Radio, tv, newspapers, magazines. Not one of them do it differently. If you have a tv show that reaches 10,000 people every week, you are able to charge the lowest for an ad. If you have one that reaches 5,000,000 every week, than name your price. AND, you do everything you can to cut the show short by 30 secs or minute to get one or two more ads in. Why should comics be permitted to defy capitalist physics?
I'm not saying it's not annoying. It is. But, after going through the bankruptcy years, I will never fault Marvel for getting the most bang out of their buck, as long as I think the overall quality doesn't suffer (and I don't think it has. Not even a little.) And if the biggest price I have to pay is turning a page to avoid an ad, well, it's ridiculous to even say that it's a small, small, price.
Then run, don't walk, to your comic book store and buy
WHITE TIGER #2, which has 5 pages of ads, 1 of comic, and then another ad, if you love capitalism so much.
All of what you said makes sense, but then it becomes a no-win when you realize that low selling books are crammed with ads. It was just the EMUSIC thing that annoyed me. CW had under 10 in terms of pages and that wasn't a big deal.
But the moral? High selling books = Ads because they have a wider appeal
Low selling books = even more ads to justify low sales.
Ironically, Dark Horse and Image can sell garbage selling books for $2.99 with almost no ads, and I would like to know how.
Darthphere said:
I don't know what Dread keeps *****ing about personally, I never noticed ads before but because of his constant *****ing I checked it out. CW #6 had 9 ad pages, Frontline had 8! OMG KILL ME! Thats the normal amount of ad pages in any comic book. And the e-music thing? I just ripped it out, big deal.
You ripped it out? Now your book has about half value. Happy New Year from Marvel.
I wasn't complaining about the normal ads, just the EMUSIC one as aside. Like I said, IT WASN'T A BIG DEAL, but if I was honestly reviewing a book, I can't deny it was an annoyance.
However, in November and early December, Marvel was selling books with 24 pages of ads at times, and that WAS noticeable and distracting. But apparently some of you care little for being taken for granted, and would read a comic with 400 pages of ads so long as it was still $2.99. And you are the fans Marvel loves.
In MAD magazine, which has also seen an explosion of ads in recent years to make up for colorized interiors, answered a letter regarding it in their usual slapstick way, saying, "We love our readers, but we love money just a little bit more!" If only Joe Q were as honest.
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