DC Introduce "All New Batman" In June

~~Leo656~~ · 03-25-2015, 08:33 PM

Can't really disagree with that, but I found the "telling good stories first and foremost" part kind of odd. That's completely never been anyone's motivation to begin with in any medium, from comics to movies to TV. Commercial art is business. Nobody cares about telling stories. I just found that comment a bit strange, is all.

The only problem with the rest of your logic is, the very best stories from the comics cannot and will not ever be adapted properly into other media, and even the very best stuff in other media can't come close to being as good or as deep as it was originally portrayed. So, it's fine if people don't read comics and prefer to follow the characters through other media, BUT, they'll never get to see the very best stuff from those characters, either, unless they go back to the source material. Granted, that's what trades are for nowadays, but the point still stands, the Very Best stories are always in the comics, not the cartoon or movie translations. Those versions may be simpler to get into, follow, and tell more linear stories, but they're by definition a watered-down version of the original.

You're not entirely wrong, though. And I wouldn't say you're in the minority; seems MOST people are pretty hip to the fact that DC and Marvel are just shoveling out trash nowadays to recoup the losses from stagnant sales. They never should have gone past $2.50 an issue; absolutely nothing they ever did again was going to fix that mistake. You cannot in this day and age, in this economy, under any circumstances, justify paying $3 or more for 20 pages of paper, staples, and ink. Even "respected" magazines that have been running for decades are going under. Even Playboy magazine is struggling to stay in business. So who can justify the exorbitant expense that has become collecting comic books? They killed the business by making it impossible for anyone to afford it, and now they're trying to make up their losses by promoting Big Event after Big Event. It's awful. Don't get me wrong, the business side of comics is complete and utter trash. But it wasn't always that bad. Wasn't always great, but it was never as bad as it is right now.

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~~Leo656~~ Banned Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: nWo Country Posts: 27,703	Can't really disagree with that, but I found the "telling good stories first and foremost" part kind of odd. That's completely never been anyone's motivation to begin with in any medium, from comics to movies to TV. Commercial art is business. Nobody cares about telling stories. I just found that comment a bit strange, is all. The only problem with the rest of your logic is, the very best stories from the comics cannot and will not ever be adapted properly into other media, and even the very best stuff in other media can't come close to being as good or as deep as it was originally portrayed. So, it's fine if people don't read comics and prefer to follow the characters through other media, BUT, they'll never get to see the very best stuff from those characters, either, unless they go back to the source material. Granted, that's what trades are for nowadays, but the point still stands, the Very Best stories are always in the comics, not the cartoon or movie translations. Those versions may be simpler to get into, follow, and tell more linear stories, but they're by definition a watered-down version of the original. You're not entirely wrong, though. And I wouldn't say you're in the minority; seems MOST people are pretty hip to the fact that DC and Marvel are just shoveling out trash nowadays to recoup the losses from stagnant sales. They never should have gone past $2.50 an issue; absolutely nothing they ever did again was going to fix that mistake. You cannot in this day and age, in this economy, under any circumstances, justify paying $3 or more for 20 pages of paper, staples, and ink. Even "respected" magazines that have been running for decades are going under. Even Playboy magazine is struggling to stay in business. So who can justify the exorbitant expense that has become collecting comic books? They killed the business by making it impossible for anyone to afford it, and now they're trying to make up their losses by promoting Big Event after Big Event. It's awful. Don't get me wrong, the business side of comics is complete and utter trash. But it wasn't always that bad. Wasn't always great, but it was never as bad as it is right now.