Sometimes Comics Need to Slow Down
It’s been a week. How have the new changes been received?
As a consumer, do you want to be immediately help in a store or left alone?
It’s time for new Challengers business cards!
Coleen Doran gives a brief history of the direct market (via Twitter).
Meltdown (a 25-year-old comics shop in L.A.) is closing their store. We don’t think it’s due to sales.
May is going to be SO EXPENSIVE for shops AND fans. SO MANY COMICS!!
Some new Marvel comics have match-to levels up to 350% of previous issues in order to get a sales break.
Would we rather have free copies overshipped for a new title, or returnability of bought copies?
Gene Luen Yang talks about teaching with comics.
By the time you hear this, change will have occurred.
But, what? What is changing?
Fine, we’ll tell you. We’re making some pretty big layout changes, while not moving any of the furniture.
We’re about to turn 10 (but please don’t congratulate us until it happens)!
We get pretty detailed as to how these changes were made, all the math behind the scenes.
We voted early! We hope you’re going to vote, too (if you live somewhere where voting will occur).
There are a few more new title announcements this week (yup, again), including a new round of DC/Hanna Barbera crossovers that look SO fun!
Why is the new Laura Kinney (All-New Wolverine) comic called X-23?!?
Patrick thought we’d briefly mention Toys-R-Us and then move on, but that turns into, like, 20 minutes on them.
2 new really good horror books this week, INFIDEL from Image (really moody and creepy and modern) and VAMPIRONICA from Archie (just fun, and gorgeous). Horror comics are the new black.
We’ll pay you $4/month to NOT shop here.
We’ll pay you $4/month to NOT shop here.
No, not YOU; someone else. But we’d do it if we could.
Fridays, amirite??
We start off the episode with a quick reminder of how subscriptions work, because some people still don’t get it.
You’re not an @$$hole for asking questions.
The 2018 Sale shirts are in!
Why don’t we order ALL our graphic novels from Diamond? Also, HOW we order our graphic novels from Diamond.
More observations about selling C2E2 tickets.
We think DC’s Black Label imprint will live up to its name.
If Toys-R-Us stores all close, will we order toys differently?
So many great #1 issues came out this week!!
As predictable as the Academy Awards
Suddenly it feels like last week’s episode was a 2-parter.
More new Marvel ‘Fresh Start’ title announcements.
Several DC announcements from Emerald City Comic Con, including 4 Neil Gaiman-adjacent books and 2 new non DCU Brian Michael Bendis books.
Why we do not relish selling C2E2 tickets in-store.
February sales numbers are in.
March event round-up.
May is going to be a killer month for comics!
We’re not in Portland. Or ARE we?
It’s the Comics PRO Annual Meeting this weekend. Any news?
Diamond Comics’ new PreviewsWorld Pullbox has a lot of people talking. Is it just an updated version of ComiXology’s old subscription service?
Speaking of Previews, DC Comics is leaving Diamond’s Previews catalog and starting their own.
The Image Expo was also this week, so here’s a quick rundown.
Marvel is promoting A Fresh Start for their publishing line, but is it really a fresh start?