Ironically after having grown up on soap opera and Tween style Xmen stories, such as Wolverine and random X having pissing contests for literally no reason, or Magneto being "tricked" with sex.
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I don’t know what evidence you are asking for. Do you just not believe that Diamond only sells to retailers and not directly to the public? If so, then I can’t really help you.
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He can't, because Diamond doesn't release those figures. All we have to go on is the word of comic shop owners, and you can find multiple stories of Diamond bending them over a barrel to boost their own sales.
If the stories are true, they don't really have a choice. Want that limited edition Batman cover? You need to buy 500 copies of x series that nobody ****ing wants.
Yes but then how sustainable is that? Mr Mind is talking about the last ten years; such practices would bankrupt small stores in two. And it's not like Diamond just started doing this.
Guess what I'm saying is, whilst it may be an issue, I really can't see stores sitting on decades of shitty comics in their warehouses whilst selling the odd Batman comic where his suit has nipples on it.
If true... is the argument then that Diamond's sales increased in 2021 not because of increased readership, but instead because of new sales practices, presumably because it lost DC in 2020 and now needs to compete?
Comics being worse nowadays isn't due to that so much.
As far as Diamond, it isn't a lot of series. Just enough to be a contributing factor.
Only partially. They raised their prices both for distribution and for individual units, and there was a surge in people buying collectables in general. At least that's what I read anyway.
The report’s author, Brian Hibbs, explains: “In 2021, comics thoroughly exploded in a way that almost defies rationality — not only was raw circulation up by nearly 70% (!), more comics material was sold in 2021 than 2018 and 2019 combined (!!) If we compare the 2021 sales to our first BookScan report in 2003, there’s more than a 558% growth in number of copies sold (!!!). If I didn’t see the numbers written in black & white, I’m not sure I’d even believe it.”
Hibbs notes that 64% of all sales are of books by just 95 people — but he sees that as a good sign. “This is a vast broadening of the talent pool — in 2020 it was only 51 people, who represented 61% of sales,” Hibbs writes. Some of the most popular creators selling comics and manga right now include Dan Pilkey, creator of the Captain Underpants series; My Hero Academia creator Kohei Horikoshi; authors from the Babysitter’s Club graphic novel adaptations; and YouTuber FGTeeV.
“What you can take from this is that only a tiny number of creators drive the majority of the business in comics (and books in general, as far as I can tell); and conversely, this probably means that the numerical majority of comics aren’t actually significantly profitable any given year.” -snip
Like I "postulated", it may just be guys here are not down with the youf.
Last edited by Old Man Whirly! on Dec 2nd, 2022 at 07:43 PM
I disagree. I was giving my opinion on the meaning of the word opinion. Facts are facts, sure, but "opinion" has an incredibly broad definition and includes a personal understanding of a given set of facts.
Anyways, the reverse is obviously true - just because you call something an objective assertion doesn't make it so. Feel free to try to objectively prove that opinions cannot be wrong.
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Dec 2nd, 2022 03:31 PM
, even objective options! True... true. 
