Dread
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The irony is two of the people I got to read AVENGERS ACADEMY monthly used "illegal download" sites to catch up on back-issues for free, and then they decided they liked it so much they'd start buying monthly issues. They even bought up back issues or trade collections of those issues THEY ALREADY READ FOR FREE because they liked it enough.
The dilemma of comic scanning is the same as illegal music downloads; people don't want to pay for crap. If you produce something that isn't rubbish, people will want to offer something for it.
Legal digital comics are good for catching people up, so long as they are properly priced. .99 is close to "impulse buy" for downloads, which is why most music singles go for that price, and why comics don't unless it is a short term sale. Comic books are a business run by artists who cosplay as businessmen, not actual businessmen. And the few businessmen who are in charge know nothing of art. Why do you think it's a cottage, dying industry? It's run by old men, who never adapt or change. They either go bankrupt, stand pat, or die. And everyone dies eventually.
Anyway, with Marvel double shipping (or in the case of VENOM, quintuple-shipping) virtually every ongoing title which hasn't been canceled in February, their immediate strategy to combat the New 52 is to take their few remaining eggs and put them in one basket.
This is so very awkward. DC is suddenly edgy and bold - bold enough to invest in 12 issues of ****ing OMAC or I, VAMPIRE - while Marvel is looking scared, clueless, and old. It's strange to experience as a fan. It's like when you look at the rock star you idolized and it suddenly hit you that he's old enough now to collect Social Security. That all of his once "edgy" songs are now used to sell Men's Underwear on TV. That all he does is remix his old hits over and over and over and over until he dies. 2011-2012 may go down as Marvel's midlife crisis. Will they mature and grow, or just keep buying new cars and floozies and denying their pain until their entire lives collapse around them?
The dilemma of comic scanning is the same as illegal music downloads; people don't want to pay for crap. If you produce something that isn't rubbish, people will want to offer something for it.
Legal digital comics are good for catching people up, so long as they are properly priced. .99 is close to "impulse buy" for downloads, which is why most music singles go for that price, and why comics don't unless it is a short term sale. Comic books are a business run by artists who cosplay as businessmen, not actual businessmen. And the few businessmen who are in charge know nothing of art. Why do you think it's a cottage, dying industry? It's run by old men, who never adapt or change. They either go bankrupt, stand pat, or die. And everyone dies eventually.
Anyway, with Marvel double shipping (or in the case of VENOM, quintuple-shipping) virtually every ongoing title which hasn't been canceled in February, their immediate strategy to combat the New 52 is to take their few remaining eggs and put them in one basket.
This is so very awkward. DC is suddenly edgy and bold - bold enough to invest in 12 issues of ****ing OMAC or I, VAMPIRE - while Marvel is looking scared, clueless, and old. It's strange to experience as a fan. It's like when you look at the rock star you idolized and it suddenly hit you that he's old enough now to collect Social Security. That all of his once "edgy" songs are now used to sell Men's Underwear on TV. That all he does is remix his old hits over and over and over and over until he dies. 2011-2012 may go down as Marvel's midlife crisis. Will they mature and grow, or just keep buying new cars and floozies and denying their pain until their entire lives collapse around them?
