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Thanks for that.
Oh, yeah. My comment aside it does appear to be a systemic market drop due to the economy.
Still, Pet Avengers shows that there is definitely interest in the MA line and NA #53 did sell almost 95k last month. Frankly, I'm enjoying the shit out of MA Avengers and Super Heroes. But it's interesting that while entertainment sales actually go up when the economy is down that the comics industry doesn't follow that trend.
It's been in pre-production or whatever the term is for almost half a decade I think.
Annecdotally, the shop I normally go to is a small, local chain with 3 stores. Out of the three, two are in extremely affluent areas and one is in an area that was affluent 15 years ago (around the time it first opened), but has been literally obliterated in the most terrible way by the loss of the auto factories and other unskilled labor. It stood on the literal dividing line between a lower-class urban black area, and a middle-class white area, and it held the mall and all of the retail shops for both of these areas. Now, the city has become a literal ghetto crushed by unemployment and crime, and the middle-class area has also dissolved into a lower class area where many people are trying to move out and the new residents are mostly high school and college drop outs from the more affluent and traditionally white areas.
Also understand that the other two stores are not only in areas that still remain extremely affluent and filled with typically upper-middle and upper-class folks, but that these areas are some of the cities that are least-affected in the country in terms of the recession (there are actually 3 or 4 small areas in Metro Detroit that rely entirely on big business and high-tech skills).
With that set up in mind, business has noticeably declined that the affluent store I occasionally visit, and they've begun to stock and order less. However, the store on the outskirts of the ghetto has been doing gangbusters, and even moved down the plaza into a nicer, double-sized storefront just a year and a half ago. They're stocking more, they're doing better business, and they do the best business of the chain.
Every week I go in, I see dudes who have biked the 3 or 4 miles from the city and other dudes who drive in on their lunch from really intensive blue-collar, on-call style jobs. It's ridiculous.
tl;dr:
-Poor people are crazy about comics.
-My LCS in the outskirts of the ghetto is slaughtering its two sister stores in office-dominated rich areas
His love of comics was eventually overtaken by his love of porcelain miniatures, and so he left us for the Precious Moments message board.
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Anyway, everyone knows that comics are Serious Business. Do they expect us to not engage in angry, poorly-structured arguments?
Maybe it's just that we're all on the Internet, and this is how arguments work when the other person isn't a person but just some text on a screen.
First of all, what company someone likes doesn't, and shouldn't, matter. At all.
Second of all, yes, people aren't posting here anymore. Some basically don't post anywhere, some just don't want to post here because of the tone this forum has taken. And I kind of agree with them, but it's not something that's easily fixed, and it's completely off the topic of the thread, which thankfully is ending soon anyways. So everyone drop it, and start asking questions that are actually related to comic books. This is still an on-topic forum.
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On a related note, has the matter of royalties for writers and artists for posting their work online been worked out yet?
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In regards to Marvel's digital lineup, I think they're still doing a chunk of new issues every six weeks or so. More focus on "now" and less focus on "then"
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Also thinking about picking up X-Factor, especially since I'm dropping Astonishing (hasn't been any good since Whedon left), and Uncanny and X-Force may be soon to follow once Messiah War and Utopia end. If I was to do that, how far should I go back to start?
The first 12 issues were really really good.
Went to be a cop
No, really
No
That isn't even sarcasm, just "no"
Lies and slander sir. X-Factor is awesome and are doing cool things with time travel.
hey wiggin, did you see what I posted up there
After I posted it yes