Liberal bias in comics? Now that's just nuts.
nah, its just that nobody has a sense of humor anymore.
Sales went down because the reading ability of liberals dropped from comic books down to watching The View and Jon Stewart.
Liberal bias in comics? Now that's just nuts.
In an age when kids with an internet connection can play games with anyone in the world, comic books are doomed.
This software has two effects. The first is that the artist can POSE the characters without redrawing the scene. That right there really cuts down the time to produce a comic.
The second is that the artist can probably put out a video with 100 times the scene/character changes in less time than needed to produce a comic.
The cost, to the artist, is dramatically reduced by simply producing a video.
There's not much money in it yet, so the artists have to keep their day jobs for a while longer, but the advertising bucks should eventually flow and a good 3D artist will make many times what the richest cartoonist ever made.
Take a look at TV advertising ~ that's 3D software at work. They are getting rid of the actors!
Looks like the gay guy added to the Archie series didn’t help, after all...?
Since I bothered to read your thesis, I have to agree the odds for it are good.
Everything he's associated with is about as appealing as a pile dog crap on the sidewalk.
When they start having women on the radio say things like, "I still believe!" you know they're scraping the bottom of thier barrels.
Not surprised. Liberals ruined The Reader’s Digest and National Geographic. Why not ruin comics as well?
I gave up on comics books many years ago, after the price went over a buck a book. Comics were disposable entertainment, nothing more.
Technology and the internet. Why should a kid go to the store and buy tame comic books when he can go online and get explicit hentai comics in the privacy of his own room?
Flaming Carrot was the last great comic book hero. After him, there was nothing.
It’s pretty much why I no longer buy Spider-Man or Captain America. Marvel’s “Noir” series are worse than propaganda. That and the writing has gotten crappier and the books have gotten thinner. I pulled some of my 1970’s era Incredible Hulks out of storage and I couldn’t believe how thick they used to be.
I suspect a lot of the fall off in comic book sales is much more simple: no places to buy comic books. They are being dragged down by the death of other media, such as newspapers and magazines. Independent bookstores, and even some of the major chains are closing.
The comic book companies could prove this while boosting their sales, by just sponsoring a few small bookstores that feature comic books, near some of the more populated, middle and upper middle class neighborhoods with lots of kids.
Then, create incentives for the kids to go to those bookstores. These do not have to be expensive, just enticing. Hopefully these little hole in the wall stores will pay for themselves soon enough, so the total cost to the parent company would be tiny.
Only then would it become obvious that all this Obama bulldada is costing them money. Their own readers would tell them to cut that b.s. out.
Some have pointed to video games. But there are other factors: competition in essentially the same medium that doubtless is not showing up in “comic book” sales statistics—translated Japanese manga and graphic novels (both of American and Japanese origin).
Perhaps after electing children to run the government, people have waken up to the fact it is time to grow up and put away childish things.
I do think the industry's main trouble is, it's hard to find comic book stores within easy distance of prospective readers. So many have shut down, Previews will only sell to dealers not readers, and subscription services are a PITA (and not all readers even know about Westfield or similar services.)
Could be any number of things. Could be the economy. You can’t eat comics or trade them for rent payments.
Maybe it is just that there are so many movies that have adapted comic books that people simply prefer to wait for the movie?
And then, having Captain America trash Americans doesn’t help much either.