The Haunted Tank ... Sergeant Rock ... Sergeant Fury and his Howling Commandos ...
Posted on 09/21/2010 5:56:35 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
[T]he Aug. 2010 comic sales were down 17 percent from one year earlier, the steepest year-over-year sales slide since the 19 percent drop in May 2009...Only time will tell if this is an aberration or the sign of a steepening slide for the sequential art industry....the most popular comic book in the country sold a little over 90,000 copies nationwide. That's a smaller circulation than many regional newspapers.
As many people know, comic books used to have sales figures in the millions. Even as late as 1996, an issue of X-men had a circulation more twice what it is now.
I'm sure there are many reason for the decline. Still, I have to wonder if the mainstream companies' strong pro-Obama, pro-liberal, bias isn't a contributing factor.
Since 2009, mainstream comic books, especially from industry leader Marvel, have gone out of their way to laud the president and attack his detractors. The company even went so far as to publish a story where Captain America all but declared the Tea Party to be a group of racists.
At any given time, approximately one-third to one-half of the country supports conservatives and/or republican policies. With this in mind, any sane business would have to stop and consideration whether alienating half their potential customer base is a good thing.
It's entirely possible that, as the bloom comes off the Obama rose, entertainment companies that continue to try and shove the president's policies down the throats of their audiences may see their fortunes fade just as quickly as those of the Democrat party.
I've still got my copy.
The Haunted Tank ... Sergeant Rock ... Sergeant Fury and his Howling Commandos ...
Speaking of flaming....
Marvel should change their name to Fabulous after introducing this guy...
Maybe all the fat, nerdy, 35 year olds ran out of unemployment and had to go back to their jobs at McDonalds?
I wish comics would return to the day when they were a fun escape instead of a mouthpiece for the writer's political ideals. This was just a fun appearance by Reagan. It doesn't give a hint as to the writer's political leanings, unlike the comics of the past 10-15 years, where they are constantly pounding the Republicans and praising the Democrats.
During this era of X-Men they had a number of cameo appearances by famous people. A few months later, during a fight in San Francisco, the X-Men are working with a couple of SFPD detectives, including a familiar-looking guy named "Harry" who carries a .44 Magnum, "The most powerful handgun in the world".
I stopped in the mid-90’s and didn’t realize how bad it got after that. I watched the tail end of a show about comic superheroes on History International today. God that was disgusting. Even Stan Lee lost quite a bit of my admiration for him. Captain America honestly after 9/11 going after the government for some plot to sell weapons to terrorists. WTF!!! Can’t portray Muslims as any type of enemy.
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