jsilverjanet

This is not my point let me spell it out marvel is hiring a list actors which in turn increases the budget which means they will either cut costs elsewhere thus creating an inferior product they of course cater to dollars. They are in the business of making money.

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actually this is a good point, it's not just the studios but all the theaters and the agreements they have with the distributors/studios example when Disney releases a movie, they have a guarantee of x number of screens etc

Well the blame should be on the studios for making the content - they could easily divert the money elsewhere not the movies/directors/actors/writers/etc

keep up n00b

quoted some of the best posts in the first 15+ pages of this thread

Disney casting choices seem like they are already throwing money to fix the problem and that never works out what's the budget going to be?

it's happened to me before with fedex and it was a hassle to get them to pay for the damages thanks for the update

No politics

That's never happened before

Very sad to hear - we shared a very similar taste in books and artists Had the pleasure of meeting him once in Baltimore

I believe they can still buy, unless the seller stipulates they don't sell to members on the HOS

i wonder if this is one of those situations where UPS/FEDEX replaces the box and just throws all the contents into the new box

waiting for someone to post the lady magdalena daredevil book or shi wolverine

found a couple of these in a $1 box at a show recently @fastballspecial

this is so true the stories before weren't very good either (with of course some exceptions)

i do not, i do see some local shop owners at comic conventions and ask how things are going, they say it's steady for now but nowhere what it was 2-3 years ago oddly enough i picked up 8 short boxes of modern variants a local shop owner was blowing out at a show for $2. me and a friend picked up cheap and sold them for $1 and then I sold my half to my friend one thing i see at shows a lot are multiple long boxes of $1-$2 modern books being sold - retail for the consumer is $4.99 sometimes even $9.99 on the anniversary issues kinda hard to grow a market where the retailer is being put at a disadvantage and no one wins (not even the buyer)

if a tree falls in the woods, does it make any sound? if a tree falls on a railroad track, destroying the track, having the train flip over etc, is it pretty easy to say, i don't like trees very much? but it's not the trees fault it just wasn't in the woods were it would have not bothered anyone with all that noise/destruction etc

I agree some people can be a real lightning rod. I remember a few other people who were constantly attacked copperagekids hustruck Chip Cataldo certainly these boards have a habit of targeting someone and not letting up the boards have a mob mentality that's for sure

b/w for one, probably being printed on the other side of the world another

I think there are several discussions going on being tied into one discussion 1 the decline of comics as a media form 2 the decline of marvel 1 - there are far more outlets as people have mentioned, i think video games is a great one. why spend $5 on a comic that i can read in 5 minutes etc, or play a video game for $60 that not only will last me forever (in a young persons version of time/space), but it's what all my friends are doing and i interact with while doing it etc 2 - the problem with Marvel is very complex. you have a set of characters with a backlog of history (over 60 years for Spiderman). Haven't all the spider-man stories been told already (over 5-6 titles throughout the years)? so what can i do with this character creatively that hasn't been done before the people who were buying Spider-man in the 80's 90's 00's and even beyond, aren't buying the title anymore (unless you are completely the entire run) , what could they do to bring those readers back? anything? everyone claims better stories etc, but let's be honest we probably won't come back to buy it and if we do, how many issues will we stay on the run? are we going back to getting pull lists, or stopping at the comic shop on Wednesdays? how many of you are at your shop every wednesday? go to a shop on Wednesday, look at the people who still have pull lists, look at those pull lists, that's an entire different group of buyers and I suspect not many on this CGC board and this is with Spider-man, what chance does a b character have? so Marvel needs to appeal to a new audience, an audience that has nothing to really do with the buyers from the previous decades etc change the character too much, that group will be completely unhappy, but they weren't really buying your product so it doesn't matter the smaller publishers like Image are successful because they can create a character and move on once their story is completed. Marvel is in a tough spot, they are damned if they do and damned if they don't. so they made changes to some characters to appeal to a different group of buyers, because their old buyers stopped buying their merchandise this lie that we tell ourselves that we would go back to buying modern comics, if A B C happened is a lie, we aren't going back, i certainly wouldn't be spending $5 on a new comic, even it was good. I got other responsibilities and choose to spend my money differently.

I had mentioned this throughout multiple threads why should i care about kang? should be explained in 1-2 simple sentences