Shops seem to close every week, or "expand" into general book or hobby stores to survive.
Is the comic book market dying?
Jason Gonzalez
Juan Cook
sounds like a place that would let you fuck dogs in the backroom
Joseph Edwards
That place was a fucking shithole with rude unfriendly staff.
Fuck em into the dirt and throw their corpses into the fucking Tay!
Lincoln Rodriguez
>That place was a fucking shithole with rude unfriendly staff.
story time?
Blake Jenkins
No story just a shit shop.
What you're seeing through the window is the entirety of their stock.
Nathan Gutierrez
What is even there in the pic, Pokemon cards?
Isaac Campbell
Maybe hiding your entire industry in tiny specialty shops that only enthusiasts visit wasn't such a bright idea after all.
Tyler Jackson
like 80% of the shelves look like they have action figures kek I hate that kind of "book store"
Daniel Bailey
surprisingly, my local comic book shop is still around, I went back after 3 years recently, although its actually more of a arcade and trading card game space now. I am glad they are selling new issues again though.
Julian Evans
>Is the comic book market dying?
No.
>Shops seem to close every week, or "expand" into general book or hobby stores to survive.
Comics market =/= comic shops. Shops close all the time. The comics crash killed up to 50% of shops (or far more by some estimates). Most shops are stable, albeit with low margins. The issue is more that some enthusiasts open shops with no business acumen and those tend to close because they don't understand the business. Established shops tend to be okay unless there is a huge shock and most of them diversified to gaming etc a while ago.
The history of the comic book industry led to this entrenched system, it wasn't like they all purposefully did it just because. It is super easy for people online to be like "lol just completely change the industry" but incredibly hard to do it in practice.