Business Proposition

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Do you have lots and lots of finances? Because the majority of new businesses fail and those that don't usually don't see a profit for the first 3 years or so. Unless you can live of the money you have now for a long time, it risky as shit.
Also there is a gigantic ton of paperwork involved in setting up a business so you'll need to be ready for that.
Also as rpg said, work out your figures very well. And get people to look over them- preferably someone who has set up their own business/knows the industry.

Originally Posted by bluestarultor

Also, you can probably expect to lose out a ton on unsold merchandise. If comics don't get sold, there's only so much you can do with them, and if it's anything like the book industry, you're going to be taking the hit

Ahh wtf? I used to work for Harper Collins and if books go unsold they send them back to the publisher. That was most of my job actually, was reshelving returns.
In this way the book industry is actually different from pretty much every other industry where the shops can't return unsold products.