the same can be said for the comic industry :) it hurt itself big time in the late 80's/early 90's by releasing 99% crap (specifically trying to create instant collectibles by putting out glow-in-the-dark covers, hologram covers, scratch-n-sniff covers, etc...and not caring about what was in between the covers).
i've only recently gotten back into comics...and i do see a lot of the same problems (only on a smaller scale...which could be due to the fact that i'm back 'into it' on a smaller scale). there's a lot of hyping a particular artist instead of a particular character or title (this led to a mass exodus of 'popular artists' back in the 90's who created their own line of books that were awful pretty to look at, but for the most part, pretty awful to read), a lot of multiple covers, and a lot of putting the popular characters into every book published (the X-Men's Wolverine specifically. within any given 'comic universe', there's supposed to be a certain degree of continuity between issues and between titles...hard to maintain believable continuity when one guy in particular is every place at every time). I had actually thought about adding in my original reply that giving the public the chance to 'preview' books might actually help convince the powers that be to stop publishing so much crap...now since you bring up the issue of crap, i'll throw it out there too :) On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 11:49:57 -0500, Nick McClure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, I think the music and movie industry has had a few other things happen > that have hurt their bottom line more than the internet. > > Namely: Crap. > > The movies and music that has been release in the past few years just hasn't > been that good. Sure there are good things here and there, but there hasn't > been greatness in the movies or in music in a while. > > I'm not a big comic reader, so I don't know if the same can be said for that > area, but I imagine there has been some of that as well, correct me if I'm > wrong. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Charlie Griefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 11:45 AM > > To: CF-Community > > Subject: Re: who cares > > > > could work both ways tho... > > > > it's possible that the 12 year old kid in question wasn't going to buy > > the book anyway. so now he downloads it and reads it. great. he > > might actually like it. he might actually like it enough to start > > reading it regularly. He might even like it enough that he wants to > > check out other books by the same writer/penciller/publisher. > > > > He might even ask mom to take him down to the local comic book shop > > one day so he can see what else is available...maybe talk to the local > > comic shop owner and ask what other titles he/she would recommend > > based on his liking of this other particular title. > > > > Or...yes, he could just continue to download the books. It's going to > > happen and those that continue to ONLY download are going to have to > > be considered a 'hit' to the income of all involved > > (publishers/retailers/creators/etc). > > > > Still (and again, I recognize that this might just be me not being > > objective due to my own collector's mentality), I don't foresee the > > downloading of comic books hurting the industry to the extent that it > > has (arguably) hurt the music and movie/tv industries. It's a > > different medium and one where (again, to me), collecting the titles > > and trying to fill in the holes is half the fun. > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:146456 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
