Comic books
 

I'm not the only one on these forums that enjoy a good ol' fashioned comic book, am I?

If you see the Joker tell him the Insane Clown Posse called.

I read the collections, but not the comics themselves. It's easier.

I like tpbs.

I also enjoy comics from the 40s and 50s. Those were simple comics. No thinking involved, and there was no question on who was the villan and who was the hero..

What alot of people don't know was Superman was originally a hotheaded smash'em up hero. But ever sense the war he changed to a more calm patriotic toned super hero.

Bassically the war changed his alignment from chaotic to lawful good.

Then DC Killed him around what? The seventies? and started over again, as chronicled in Alan Moore's "Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow."

Umm,DC "killed" him around 85 with the Crisis of Infinite Earths that kinda modernized everyone a slight degree and streamlined the DC Universe. The only actual time he died was in 93 when him and Doomsday pummeled eachother to death.He stayed dead for about ten months our time.

Well, three times if you also count that song "Even Superman put a bullet through his head."

Does anyone know what happened to Cerebus? I quit reading comics around '95 and am curious as to what Dave Sim has been up to. If my math is on the series should be ending soon

Eh. Comics are going out of style. Well. They've recieved a mild injection of new readers due to the surge of superhero movies, but they still don't take in much money anymore. And, while I may have been a bit vague on the steadiness of the Magic: the Gathering market, this I know for a fact.

Me, I've already jumed ship and gone over to free, online-comics. Whooo! Free! Half the quality and ten-billion times the quanity!
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Right...Compared to the early nineties comics have dropped off a bit, but (and this is a big J-Lo sized but) comic books are enjoying steady success and I'm sure comic books will be around far longer then any of us.

From one website: "Most of us working in the industry have been struggling with a terrifying question since the beginning of the technology boom. Could we witness the end of the comic book, as we know it today, in the not too distant future? Some of you might be saying,"Well that's just crazy!" The truth is, maybe not. Whether you are a reader, creator or publisher, it is hard not to have noticed the significant decline in comic readerships over the past few years. The decline has not only been experienced by the independent market, but the mainstream as well. Giants, like Marvel and DC, saw decreasing numbers even in their flag ship titles. Titles with a circulation of five hundred thousand copies just a few years ago are now only selling a fraction of what they use to. It might appear that more comic related properties have made the jump to television and motion pictures, but one has to wonder what actually happened to the books."

From another: "In the early 2000s, the continuing decline of the monthly comic book format (22-to-30 page issues), along with a steady increase in sales of graphic novels at retail bookstores, led comic book industry insiders to consider the possibility that the era of monthly comic books may be coming to an end, with the industry being subsumed and dominated by the publication of graphic novels. As it is, most publishers arrange nowadays to have their stories geared to run around the equivalent page length for binding into a graphic novel."

Here's a REALLY good one, but it's pretty long - just go to the site and read it yourself: Sworn to Protect a World That Won't Buy Their Comic Book