Post by ERON on Nov 28, 2012 19:58:17 GMT -5
Gawd, the arguments I've had with guys in the comic book store over the years about how to get comics selling millions of copies again. The two ideas that I hear the most are: 1) since most comics are about superheroes, and they aren't selling, then obviously kids hate superheroes, and if Marvel and DC would ditch the superheroes and replace them with action, horror, and sci-fi books, the kids will start flooding the comic stores, or 2) comic characters' backstories are to confusing because of years of continuity, and all DC and Marvel have to do to get the kids flooding the comic stores is to reboot their universes and start over from scratch. When I try to point out that: 1) most of the kids I work with on a daily basis love superhero movies, cartoons, and video games, sport superhero shirts and backpacks, and read manga, which, unlike American comics, is sold outside of specialty stores, or 2) that when most of us long-time readers first got into comics, the characters already had complicated backstories and years of continuity, and that didn't stop us from getting into comics, and we didn't have the internet back then, they demand that I produce sales figures for superhero merchandise and manga off the top of my head to back up my claims, and when I can't, they declare my arguments invalid.
There was also a guy who had this elaborate idea for a sort-of Marvel version of Crisis on Infinite Earths, which would result in the X-Men getting isolated in their own separate universe, and another guy, back when Steve Nash was with the Mavs, who thought Dallas should trade Nash and Nowitski for Allen Iverson. Uh, yeah.
There was also a guy who had this elaborate idea for a sort-of Marvel version of Crisis on Infinite Earths, which would result in the X-Men getting isolated in their own separate universe, and another guy, back when Steve Nash was with the Mavs, who thought Dallas should trade Nash and Nowitski for Allen Iverson. Uh, yeah.