Comic Book Sales POLL

[ZachWZ]

comic Books are selling at their worst rate ever ever ever ! In the USA I lasted my best reasons why above. However I want to hear why non Comic Book fans aren't buying and I want to know what comic fans think.

ZachWZ

 

[mordy]

I've never really gotten into Commic Books myself but one of my best friends is right into the Phantom he's got just about every issue there is including the very first issue !

 

[Sinistra]

i buy comics..but not very often...but i do, so there

 

[mordy]

cool what you into ?

 

[ZachWZ]

As a Comic Fan has subject interests me. So I am giving it a bump.

ZachWZ

 

[Tabitha]

I stopped buying comics for one basic reason - I was spending too much money on them! Added to that I am living abroad for a year, and I don't think I could bear to be parted with them when I go home. I have been reading a few trade paperbacks though - Daredevil and Rising Stars among others.

 

[ray gower]

I think you have most of the reasons in the poll. Though you can add the fact that most of the natural readership- Teens- think they have better things to do, be it television or computers.

Personally, I stopped buying regularly because a) I out grew them and b) Series like DC's JLA and Batman simply became too dark and apocolyptical

 

[Bayleaf48]

For me it's the story line that's the problem as sometimes they simply go on for too long

 

[deliverycowboy]

Originally posted by ray gower
I think you have most of the reasons in the poll. Though you can add the fact that most of the natural readership- Teens- think they have better things to do, be it television or computers.

Personally, I stopped buying regularly because a) I out grew them and b) Series like DC's JLA and Batman simply became too dark and apocolyptical

i am posting this in response to answer a) of your post with two questions to ask you. or may one with two possible answers.

1) how old are you. you can never be to old for comics. my dad is 40+ and he is still into comics. he gets both of the ones you have mentioned and more and he is probable going to keep getting comics til the day he dies or until he cant afford them any more.
if you think you are to old for comics then i think you may be to old to be a kid at heart. because comics are for the kid at heart. correct me if i am wrong on that.

 

[ray gower]

Originally posted by deliverycowboy


i am posting this in response to answer a) of your post with two questions to ask you. or may one with two possible answers.

1) how old are you. you can never be to old for comics. my dad is 40+ and he is still into comics. he gets both of the ones you have mentioned and more and he is probable going to keep getting comics til the day he dies or until he cant afford them any more.
if you think you are to old for comics then i think you may be to old to be a kid at heart. because comics are for the kid at heart. correct me if i am wrong on that.

Age- I am comfortably older than your dad!

Actually you have raised an interesting point as to what one 'grows out of'.
In my case I think the reasons go like this:

Many of the comicbooks of the mid/late sixties became very dark and violent. The practicalities of killing and maiming was not something that balanced well with comic fantasies.

The stories also began to be too convoluted for the medium. Not to mention the annoying habbit of stopping halfway, then starting on something totally different in the next issue (both of which I see they still do, especially in Marvel titles!). I was always a big book reader and there is no way IMHO that a comic can handle the complexities that are common in books without becoming disjointed. You are welcome to debate this?

About the same sort of time a lot of the 'variety' comics (ones with more than one hero/story) disappeared, leaving only more specialist titles and those far from easy to obtain.

Now of course there is a small revival in the fortunes of specialist comics. But I still see many of the faults that put me off of them originally.
They are not childrens reading and I have grown out of the teenage desire for blood and ghore on a major scale.

I do still buy comics, on a limited basis, just sample whatever is available. But until I find one that captures the imagination and does not empty my wallet, I do not see me returning to them any time soon.

Having said that- I will still sit down happily with my youngest grandson's back issues of Beano and Dandy and chortle at those just as I did over 40 years ago!

Perhaps I've grown too young?