DC doesn't publish enough books!

>fix this problem
See, here's what's confusing about this situation.
The "problem" in any market, unless you're a shill, is the customers not being satisfied. How is doing what the customers want a bad thing? How is going the opposite way from where the customers want a good thing?
Are we at
>you think you want it, but you don't
?

Unironically fuck the fans. Fans don't know what they want till they get it, if we listen to the fans we would up to our eyeballs in Gay batfamily books.

its because they sell like shit
why cape oldfags are so clueless and still believe therere customers who buy them

Embarrassing.

>sjws
>spending money

Wouldn't this basically kill off the collector's market if everyone just switched to trades and no longer published single issues?

Even though direct market comic stores were a huge part of my history, and have given me a lot of positive nostalgia, I will be glad to see them go.

It just feels painful to watch something cling to life when we all know the options for revitalization aren't really there.

The floppies are too pricey to print against the limited demand that they have. Trades are hard to generate when you can't give steady income to the creative team that monthlies provide.

The prices alone drive away consumers as production costs rise. It is very hard to justify 10 to 20 minutes of entertainment to the consumer for 4 dollars when Netflix or some other streaming service costs 10+ per month. I know digital comic companies have experimented with product line subscriptions, but I honestly don't know much about their impact yet. But I do know that a lot of digital distributors keep prices for digital copies as high as print copies, which seems to defeat the purpose, and seems to largely be done to not throw the direct market under the bus.

And then we get to the content. The two main companies in this country have been squeezing blood from a stone out of the properties made by a small amount of creators from decades past. The idea that people are still trying to push Hawk and Dove comics blows my mind rather than just try harder to publish new works that might resonate with younger readers.

But nothing I'm saying now hasn't been said a million times over at this point. The decline of the direct market isn't exactly a new talking point.

nice Reddit spacing

What is the benefit of Comic Book shops compared to having books in normal retailers and day 1 digital? Even as a kid in the 90's with no internet, my exposure to actual comics were limited to where my parents would drive me instead of me asking for a couple of bucks in the department/grocery store check out line. I mean cardshops still exist despite me being able to buy theme decks and boosters from Walmart and singles online.

higgins is a cuck and listening to him is a wot