I mean he/she is complaining about a comic book costing 3 dollars!
Jesus do you even know how much work needs to be done by artists and writers before you can read the damn book ?

And they say that they don’t want the medium to die but they complain that 3 bucks is WAY too much for a comic book! don’t be cheap people.

I started buying comic books when I was around 10 years old (1987), and I remember that they were $0.75, then. I just checked an inflation calculator, and if the prices had simply kept up with inflation they would only be $1.33 today. I might be a year or two off, but it won’t change the numbers much.

Maybe there are other forces at work here, but there’s a big big difference between $1.33 and $2.99!

Am I happy about this? I am not happy about this. I am not happy about this AT ALL. $3 is too much for a comic and it’s definitely prohibitive for a young kid like I was too get in. When I started buying comics, I had an allowance of $6 a week. Enough to buy a few comics at .75 each. Now, my allowance would be $10 (inflation adjusted). I could only buy 3 books now, whereas then I could buy at least 6!

I also don’t really understand why the medium left tiny ads behind. If you read old comics (and I do, a lot), they have pages where lots of little vendors bought tiny pieces of the page to advertise. Now they appear to sell full or half pages or nothing. No smaller divisions. I can’t help but feel like this is production decision and it’s a poor one.

Comics have gotten too darn high falutin’.

Though I agree with Heidi. I think our beloved medium is here to stay. We’ve been worried it would die for years.

At the very least, the DIY world will never die.

I can’t say I’m demanding anything other than great stories at reasonable prices, so the “slick product with a complex storyline” isn’t for me apparently.