TOP 10 Worst Things To Happen In The History Of Comics

[Mister_Comics]

What were the worst things to happen in comic history? Bad ideas that ruined comics.

I can think of three right off the bat...

 

1. Comic Code

 

2. Spider-Man clone story line.

 

3. Death of Superman

[B-Smooth]

video games

[Timulty]

Marvel. Yep that would be one of them!!!

[Mr. Zipper]

Foil / hologram covers.

[HouseofComics.Com]

video games

 

How about the rapid price increases from 12-cents to 20-cents and also from 25-cents to 50-cents in the blink of an eye?

 

Not to mention the big Marvel price increases in the early 90s but those didn't affect me as much.

 

Marc

[ignimbrite]

How about varient cover after varient cover!

[DKB]

Clones.

 

Whatever series of events led to Valiant going downhill fast.

[thedude]

for me it would be the shift towards selling comics in "comics shops" exclusively through the direct market, they have all but stopped selling comics in your local store and places other than LCS.

 

I'm sure many of us here bought most of our books (when we were kids that is), either at a convenient store or pharmacy,

 

I think this is a big reason that new comics sales are dwindling, kids 7-15 can't drive X amount of miles to get to their LCS for books, and they can't buy them at their local quick mart either, like I use to do..

 

when I was 8 (I think), and I used to stay at my grandmother's house, there was a little store right across the street from her house that I would buy my comics from, that's were I started my comics buying in fact.. if that store hadn't sold comics at the time, I might not be typing in this forum right now..

[Zonker]

- The DC Implosion

 

- Heroes Reborn

 

- Justice League Detroit

 

- Marvel fires Jim Shooter

 

- Valiant fires Jim Shooter

[Timulty]

Foil / hologram covers.

 

Again, see my reference to Marvel.

[topofthetotem]

How about speculators driving up prices

[Pirate]

crisis if you lived on one of those other earths

[mica]

Image Comics

 

 

 

Or am I kidding?

[Anfield Fox]

Re-numbering. It is the single worst thing you can do to a long standing series. Short term gain, long term pain.

[thedude]

Re-numbering. It is the single worst thing you can do to a long standing series. Short term gain, long term pain.

 

here, here,..give that man a cookie !

[skybolt]

Too many crossovers/multiverses/character changes.

[october]

1. Comic Code

 

 

Closely followed by variant covers.

 

Video games was also a good one.

[FlyingDonut]

1. Television

 

everything else pales.

[chromium]

The 90's....

[Inhuman Fiend]

for me it would be the shift towards selling comics in "comics shops" exclusively through the direct market, they have all but stopped selling comics in your local store and places other than LCS.

 

I'm sure many of us here bought most of our books (when we were kids that is), either at a convenient store or pharmacy,

 

I think this is a big reason that new comics sales are dwindling, kids 7-15 can't drive X amount of miles to get to their LCS for books, and they can't buy them at their local quick mart either, like I use to do..

 

when I was 8 (I think), and I used to stay at my grandmother's house, there was a little store right across the street from her house that I would buy my comics from, that's were I started my comics buying in fact.. if that store hadn't sold comics at the time, I might not be typing in this forum right now..

 

Totally agree. When I got back into collecting two years ago (after 20+ years of being out of the loop), I decided to go pick up a couple of new books to see what was going on with current storylines. Imagine my confusion when I drove to all the usual places I bought comics as a kid (drugstore, grocery store, book store) and found NOTHING! Finally I went to the LCS and was shocked when I learned that comic shops were just about the only place you could buy a new comic nowadays. The guy who told me seemed a little weird and I wasn't sure I believed him, so I continued searching just for the hell of it but only found some sporadic racks still existing in a few bookstores (no spinner racks of course, wooden shelves ).

Now I know the old distribution method was very inefficient and that cable TV and video games are the real enemies of comic reader growth...but it was still a very strange and somewhat disheartening revelation for me to discover how much things had changed...