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Deep Fried
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I'd like to get some people's opinions on this: Would anyone be inclined to purchase a color comic, printed on high-grade newsprint (instead of offset paper like standard comics) and without a glossy cover, if the price was between $1.00 and $1.50? Would anyone only buy a comic like that under certain conditions (ie, it was an action comic instead of a humor comic)? Would anyone not buy one under any circumstances?
I have been considering publishing a product like this, and have supposed that a cheap comic, as long as it had good enough art and story, might be appealing given the sticker shock of comics these days. I'd love to hear your thoughts!
I have been considering publishing a product like this, and have supposed that a cheap comic, as long as it had good enough art and story, might be appealing given the sticker shock of comics these days. I'd love to hear your thoughts!
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::shrug:: doesn't Fables use the same stuff though?
So, yeah. Sure. If it was good anyways.
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Does "collector value" really even exist anymore with modern comics? Sentimental value, maybe ...
I would buy that on whatever you printed it on. Twice.
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People were bitching about the paper in the Fourth World Omnibus being cheap. I thought it was fine.
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Collector value still exists as well, have you priced an ultimate spider man #1 recently? especially if it's a 9.0 or above ccg
To give another look into my mind: back in college, I cringed when I saw people underlining and highlighting things in their textbooks, because they're god-damned books, and they were basically defacing them. Books are sacred, man. That shit ain't cool. (I'm clearly a disturbed individual.)
To negate everything just said, though, I guess I'd have to hold the thing in my hands to really judge if I'd buy it or not. If it's literally printed on the same exact type of paper as a newspaper? No, I wouldn't be interested. If it's similar but more durable, etc.? Possibly.
I hate cardstock covers. Nothing like paying extra money for a cover smeared with logos, UPCs and other garbage. It doesn't look any better than a normal cover and it just gives them a reason to charge $4.99 for the same book during events and other nonsense.
If I bought a $70 (guess at price) omnibus, it better damn well be on quality paper.
yeah, but that goofy crap is just a distraction for the most part.
I only paid 30 for each of them. The paper is not glossy, but it feels like premium uncoated stuff. At the printing press I am employed at (man i would hate my job a lot less if we printed comics), we call paper like this premium, or offset. They are actually two different papers that feel pretty much the same to me, but I know there are differences. It is really high quality stuff, but it is not coated, so it is cheaper.
I actually enjoy the Fourth World being printed on that kind of paper because it means I don't have a glare on what I am trying to read.