>Comic takes fifteen minutes to read >Comes out once a

>>89828849
>Comic takes fifteen minutes to read
If you're reading Alan Moore, maybe.

The usual comic takes less than 10 minutes.

>>89828849

They still make a profit.

>>89828849
Comics need a revamp. Suppose a company released a magazine containing most of their monthly titles for ten or fifteen bucks in cheaper paper. Or released various graphic novels a year instead of monthly titles.

I find their current model is shitty as fuck.

>>89828849
>15 minutes
Most of the shit today takes like 30 seconds per page.

>>89828893
I've been rereading the old New Mutants run, and it's amazing how long it can take to get through some of those issues.

>>89828945
It's shitty, but it turns a profit.

>Or released various graphic novels a year instead of monthly titles.

More-or-less what they do with TPs? Cheaper to buy TPs as well.

>>89828975
Old comics had much more text. The writers were paid by words, so it is not really surprising.

>>89828975
Just skip every other panel. You won't miss anything.

>>89828945
You mean be more like things like shounen jump in japan which is wildly popular and can also be brought in convenience stores so comics overall would get more exposure? Shit, someone get DC and Marvel on the phone and tell them about all this potential money their not making, I'm SURE they would listen.

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>>89828849

>mfw I learned that Dragonball from Pilaf to Kid Buu was done in 9 years

If it was done monthly it would have only finished about 3 years ago. The structure of Western comics is trash

>>89828945
The consumer base hates anthologies. They don't buy them.

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>>89828945
>Or released various graphic novels a year instead of monthly titles.

Works for little girl comics.

>>89829094

It would be nice to know just how much Super hero girls actually sells

>>89829062
Digital comics are weekly. Maybe the future is there.

>>89829062

Dragon Ball chapters were only 14 pages a standard comic is about 24(?) without ads. It would have been finished by the late 2000's which is still too long though

>>89829093
People buy books of multiple short stories all the time. It's all about the marketing.

Pretty sure they could do a transition period where they sell both: monthly floppies alongside the monthly magazine that collects them all for cheaper on a cheaper material. Pretty sure people would go for it. Specially since you could even keep track of crossover events much easier.

>>89829297
The difference is that people don't want the cheaper paper. They want to think that they're buying a quality story on quality paper.
People who buy comics don't act rationally, don't try too hard to figure it out.

>>89828849
>How the fuck has this medium survived?
Well up until the last couple years they contained good/entertaining stories that justified their existence.

Now...I don't even wanna bother typing that negativity.

>>89829328
>people don't want the cheaper paper
They wouldn't buy marvel if this where true. Their paper is fucking garbage.

>>89829373
You know what I mean, pedantic ass.

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>>89828849
And t
Waiting for trades is a bitch since 97% of anything you could ever read is online still I like to support sometime started collecting the Grendel omnibus Wagners can be a genius sometimes

>>89829393
Not really. DC's paper is like twice the quality of marvel's. Downgrade to marvel tier, sell four monthly comics as one magazine for 15 bux. People buy it anyway, because they already do.

>>89828945
>Suppose a company released a magazine containing most of their monthly titles for ten or fifteen bucks in cheaper paper. Or released various graphic novels a year instead of monthly titles.
It's almost like that very thing has been happening in another country for decades and has worked out incredibly well.

And knowing Americans if western comics ever adopted the methods of release used by Manga they'll try to make it sound groundbreaking and original and something that's never been done by any other country or industry.

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I wish some titles did weekly chapters.

>>89829373
>>89829428
fuck of DC shill

>>89828975
I thought I was only one.

>>89829516
Nah, bruh. Go to your LGS and hold a couple of floppies for both companies. I hadn't noticed until the owner pointed it out to me. Apparently, people have been buying a lot less marvel as of late partially due to this. (And partially due to too many crossovers, apparently. I thought people loved that shit?)

>>89829062
The problem with that shit is that Toriyama just comes up with his shit on the fly.

Batman: Year One. 4 issues, 4 months, absolutely excellent throughout and beats Dragon Ball writing-wise at any point of its 9 years running.

>>89829593
Mini series are not quite the same as ongoings. They have a beginning and an end and are much more attractive to buy in general.

>>89829567

People genuinely do like events, but only when they actually feel important. DC's Manhattan event is going to be huge. Marvels problem is that they have so many events that they don't seem important. Just look at this year. IvX is going on at the same time as Monsters unleashed and we have Secret Empire coming up soon and this is just after Civil War II ended. Fuck knows how many events Marvel will have this year

>>89829648
>Year One
>Mini-series
If I had to choose an example of a mini-series, I would've used Dark Knight Returns, genius.

>>89829593
The problem, as you put it, is that it's a different medium. Manga don't use color, they'll often have simpler styles (and often times just drop backgrounds all together in many panels), and the popular ones will have multiple assistants helping the original artist.
They're then sold in an anthology before being sold in a collected volume on cheap pulp paper.

The costs involved are completely different scales.

>>89829404
yeah i considered reading grendel but i'm not sure what the appeal is.

>>89829679
>4 issues
>4 months
Sounds like a mini series to me. I wouldn't know, because, I never bothered even looking at year one.

>>89829697
>and often times just drop backgrounds all together in many panels

I've seen way to many comics also do this lately to be fair

>>89828849
i don't either. i rarely by single issues if ever. i get TPBs and trade em back for more TPBs. this way i'm able to read more comics than the shelfporn bitches

>>89829709

Oh man I have to respond to you so that guy doesn't think you're me >>89829062 Because I love Year One it's probably my favorite Batman story

>>89828849
>They're completely useless and everyone ignores that garbage.
Same reason pornos still come out in physical media. Still enough aged fatsos dumb enough to buy it. Meanwhile, normies buy GNs and nothing else.

>>89829709
It wasn't.

>>89829709
That's called a run. Year One is a storyline that unfolded in issues #404-407 of Batman monthly comic.

>>89829727

You could just download them for free and save yourself the trip

>>89829720
Yes, but it's still a timely process to run pages through color printing and not just BW/Greyscale.

>>89829768
tell me how.

i've seen people post the new zealand site, but it's not user friendly. it never loads for me. also i'm paranoid about malware

>>89829815

Well I use Mega and I've never had any problems. Guess I can't hep you man

>>89828945
So basically, go the way of European publishers like Dupuis' Spirou magazine, Pif Gadget, etc.?
Mite b cool.

>>89828945
Doing so would definitely help keep up with tie-ins and crossover issues you otherwise wouldn't be buying.

>>89829697
> it's a different medium
No, they're all comics. Anyone who thinks comics becomes a different medium because they're made in a different country is retarded

>>89829941
It's not a different medium, but there are different formats and expectations between the countries that make them wildly different products. Just because they're both comics printed on paper doesn't make them the same.

>>89829328
But isn't the problem that this kind of turbo autist isn't enough to keep the big two prosperous? Wouldn't trying to attract a larger, different audience be more beneficial?

>>89829045
>can also be brought in convenience stores so comics overall would get more exposure?
Serious question
Why isnt that a thing over here?
I sometimes see the odd Archie book in supermarkets, nothing in convenience stores, trades in most bookstores, and weekly issues very rarely in bookstores.

>>89829835
don't know what that is

>>89830008
No because it's exactly the turboautist that actually buys comics consistently.
Normal people don't buy comics. Normal people don't know where their LCS is. Normal people don't know that new comics don't come out on Wednesdays.
Floppies are the lifeblood of the modern comic industry, and you can't sell floppies to normal people. They just don't want them.

>>89830013
Because of fucking Diamond Comics and their stronghold on the industry.

>>89830013
Because they don't want to bother with it. It used to be easy, just stick a spinner before the checkout, and restock when it gets low. Now that space is occupied with candy and soda, and those sell better than comics.
Also >>89830067.

>>89830067
Please explain. Who are diamond comics and why is it their doing?

>>89830056
>Floppies are the lifeblood of the modern comic industry
Considering all comic shops in my area are completely getting rid of floppies and are only carrying trades from now on, I'd say this statement is bullshit.

It's amazing how casuals will watch 5+ hours a week of absolute garbage cheap television like CW and Netflix cape shows, but can't focus for 10 minutes to read a damn comic.

>>89829045
A lot of publishers outside the US sell licensed Marvel and DC comics like this, it's shit and helps no one.

>>89830142
Where do you live? I'm in NYC and I know of no shops who would even dare attempt this.

>>89830142
How bout that anecdotal evidence.
Check out comichron.

Grendel is fucking great the hunter rose stories are some of the best thriller villain protagonist comics I've ever read Hunter rose is a one of this characters that makes the story worth buy just to see how he gets hos way he's smarter and stronger than anyone he goes against but he's not perfect he has faults that bite him in the ass when he least expects it I really recommend it

>>89829708
>>89830193

>>89830170
Puerto Rico. Local stores only have back issues for floppies from 2015 or so and nothing new, since they are eliminating them. The owners tell me that they just don't sell, so they are moving to only selling trades (and their other non-comic stuff.).

Judging by the sales threads on this board and the reports of overshipping, I'd say that floppies selling well is more of an exception due to some local markets rather than a norm.

>>89830112
Diamond Comics is the the only distributor of comics in America so they basically have a monopoly which makes the industry bend to their will.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_Comic_Distributors

I've forked over a few hundred to Marvel and at least a hundred on Rebirth.
I don't feel any shame in just reading the only three comics I like on here.

Plenty of manga are released monthly. What is the problem here?

>>89828945
this is how it's done in Italy, and it just works.

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>>89830331
I just learned about them now I hate them.
Fuck Diamond!

>>89830244
Are you implying that your local Puerto Rican LCS's are accurate forecasters for the whole of U.S. comic market?

>>89830443
No, I'm implying that comic books selling 100,000 comics world wide WITH overshipping is definitely not a bread and butter product for the thousands of stores selling them thus, not the "lifeblood of the modern comic industry" outside of a few local markets. I'm using personal experience to reinforce the point.

>>89830195

So what's this pasta original about?

>>89830502
gore/dead body posts, i believe.

>>89830443

Not him but I'd just say it's more evidence for the coming collapse of the market

>>89830484

I thought the diamond charts were America only? Shit it's worse than I thought

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>>89830549
I think you're right and it's only america sales. It's still a pretty shitty position to be in. I mean, how many stores are there selling comics in the US? Diamond comics had 2,600 accounts in 2013. That means a store is selling, on average, thirty books per month of each title. Assuming they are selling for about twice the price they bought them from (shipping costs for some markets and overshipping will murder these figures), they would be earning about two dollars per book.

This means about 60 dollars per title carried. Assuming 50 titles (a generous figure). That is 3,000 dollars a month for selling 1,500 books. And that's the raw earnings, once you pay for the power, water and store space, you probably will barely have enough to pay one employee (yourself, the owner) minimum wage.

Definitely not a bread and butter product.

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>>89830153
>It's amazing how casuals will watch 5+ hours a week of absolute garbage cheap television like CW and Netflix cape shows, but can't focus for 10 minutes to read a damn comic.

Because comics are for children.

>>89830686
The thing is though, LCS aren't just comic shops.
The smart stores are turning into general purpose nerd shops selling those funco dolls and t-shirts. Comics aren't lucrative for the store owners period, the floppies are basically just there to cater to the largest niche. TPBs sell even worse, and are more expensive than just bundling 4 or 5 issues together (especially if they're hardbound)

>>89830153
>>89830760
No, because people already have bought in with those products so they don't feel like they're wasting their time, they're just using it already.
You have to go out of your way to find and read comics, and even then they're bad investments.
What's the better way to spend $10: a month long netflix subscription that lets you watch hours and hours of film and shows, or a couple of comics that you're done with by the end of an hour?

>>89830784
Exactly. Comics are going to be dead unless somebody finds a better way to market them or a more lucrative method for the store. Comic stores are essentially becoming hot topics full of quirky collectibles and clothes to make ends meet.

>>89830784
>and are more expensive than just bundling 4 or 5 issues together

That's just Marvel if we're talking your standard tpb. DC has 6 issue collections for $14.99

>>89830835
There's really no easy answer to it.
Print media in general is going down the shitter, and there's no great indication that a straight up switch to digital will be able to pull the same numbers. They'd lose a lot of consumers in the transition that would just stop buying them because they want the physical media to collect.
The only way I can think to do it is to put actual commercials for comics on television, and possibly set up a kiosk in movie theater lobbies when there are big Capefilms (while making it clear where the actual store is located to possibly buy more at a later time).
Maybe if they could fold their entire building into things like Barnes and Noble, so that they aren't just selling the "hot new event Omnis".

>>89830971

Marvel survives from people buying 1's. Good luck keeping that shit up on digital

>>89829815
Wait around for the Wednesday threads where people post download links and get a CBR reader.

>>89828849
They were not always 21 pages.

Comics in the 90's and before were in the 40-ish page range.

>>89831082

And most were anthologies. Seriously a 2000AD style books would be welcome

>>89831082
>Comics in the 90
You guys really need to be more specific. The 90's was a tumultuous time for comics, and wrapping it up all into one decade doesn't help.
>>89831123
>most were anthologies
I have no doubt many were, but I very much doubt that most were.

>>89831082
Actually even today a lot of indie stuff goes over 22 pages.

>>89828849
>How the fuck has this medium survived?
trades

>>89830835
I've never seen a pure "comic shop." They're all hobby stores. Tabletop RPGs, board games, miniatures, card games. Been this way in my area for 20 years or more.

Only retro videogames are a relatively new addition to this lineup.

>>89830074
yea but with hero movies being the new hotness I'd think they try expanding.
>>89830067
You know, every time i read about the buisiness side of comic history, this ball of anger rises from the pit of my stomach. Now all i want is for it all to crash and burn.

>>89830331
so why don't DC and Marvel tell them to fuck off - sure it mainly affects retailers more than the big two themselves but at the same time it puts a lot of people off

they have disney and warner bros behind them

>>89830153
>It's amazing how casuals will watch 5+ hours a week of absolute garbage cheap television like CW and Netflix cape shows, but can't focus for 10 minutes to read a damn comic.

Don't pretend like it's easy for a normie to get invested in the current comic scene.

>Oh hey Marvel I like their movies lets check out the comics
>Civil War sweet just like the movie
>Iron Man is fighting some dyke I never heard about over some faggot kid, everyone's just repeating what everyone else is saying, no fight scenes happen, there's some group of other faggots called Inhumans and the plot barely advanced and I feel like I wasted five dollars

Then Marvel makes their comics more like the movies and you moan like a dying cow

>>89831521
Holy shit, this is terrifyingly accurate.

>>89831563
it really just highlights both how well johns and didio are doing over at DC

even though their non-comic everything is fucking shit, they're still managing to out-sell the two largest media franchises in the world in terms of comic books, an already shit medium with shit retention rates

>>89828945
In my country there are for example 2 Spider-Man titles. In those 2 different titles, you will get every current comic related to the character.
There will be a title where you get the main stuff, another title where there are the less important shit.

It's an example but that's how it's done here. Every title is around 60-80 pages

>>89832578
What country? That sounds fucking fantastic. I'd prefer that.
I'd even prefer a return to the days of less detailed colouring and more stylised/silver age art. More Early john byrne, less bryan hitch.

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>>89832632
Talking for France but it's probably the whole Europe.
They are monthly and more expensive than the regular floppies tho

Basically pic rel has in it Amazing Spider-Man (2015) #16, Spider-Man 2099 (2015) #12, Free Comic Book Day 2016 (II), Civil War II: Spider-Man (2016) #1-2.

>>89832748
>Talking for France
Lucky you.
You lot get good comics made locally, too.
I have to pay more than most other countries for American comics and, partly because I can't into other languages, have to wait for translations of the great shit that comes out of France.

>>89832767
Yeah too bad I read none of them m, ik I'm missing something but I'm broke and bored

>>89832783
You don't read French comics?

>>89832632
It is that way in my country and isn't fantastic at all.

Usually it forces you to buy an expensive 80 pages book filled with shitty stories because the one comic that you want to read is in the mix.

>>89832578
Those Pannini collections got me back into reading comics. I liked how they would run recent stories alongside relievent classic issues to give things a bit of context

>>89829016
This explains the unecessary monologue the hero does explaining what he is doing while we can see him doing said thing.

>>89830829
>>89831521
>>89832313
What gets me is how my friends (male, female, and undoubtedly normies) pirate everything, know where to get free comics browsing the internet and make "being a geek XDDDD" their life mission, but would rather spend hours and hours tracking down torrents for shitty shows. I've seen them trying to read, and I've seen how it causes them physical discomfort, even with explosions and stupid pictures.

>>89828849
>How the fuck has this medium survived?
Whales and licensing.

Comics are a way to sell movies, toys, and merch. Paper comics are sold to autists who buy comics because they have nothing left to themselves, or they really like a character.

The new digital distribution is alright I guess.

Honestly they should just do what other countries do and release shit in black and white on the cheap, but western fans are spoiled for high-gloss and generally don't mind forking over twenty bucks once a month for their four comics. It kills me because half the 'gritty' comics are in black and white anyway.

>>89829127
Well enough they have a Tv show and a toy line, and there's a big push to get girls into things boys like the last decade or so.

>>89831329
There's a place near me that pretty much only sells comics and funko pops.

-it makes like no money and is run by an older gay couple that did it as a weird pop-up art district thing ten years ago and found out they like chilling in the first floor of their house talking nerd shit.

Most LCS's are labors of love, which is why there's so few anymore.

>>89828849
buyers remorse. If people stop buying comics they'll realize they've wasted their money.

>>89830074
>It used to be easy, just stick a spinner before the checkout, and restock when it gets low.
Kids these days are missing out on something special. We used to ride our bikes down to the local drug store and blow our allowance on floppies. What we couldn't buy we'd either read there or trade one another for it. Nowadays the floppies are gone and parents will get locked up for letting kids out of their line of sight.

>>89828930
>They still make a profit.

no they actually don't
Comics are a cheap way of keeping the intellectual properties and that is the only reason print comics still exist

>>89833784
...yes, they do. You're objectively wrong. Stop trying so hard.

>>89830521
More like the complete collapse of Puerto "70 billion dollars in debt, can't declare bankruptcy, and everybody who's anybody is leaving for the mainland" Rico.

>>89830142
All the comic shops in your area probably rely on Magic the Gathering addicts to remain solvent.

Fewer floppies means less long boxes means more tables means more fat, cheeto crusted deviants willing to buy three cases of whatever the new set is.

>>89831497
Because Marvel tried that once, and it made them go bankrupt.

>>89829593
>any batman run
>excellent

>>89829062
Even excluding the difference in page count another anon brought up, keep in mind that manga in general is much more decompressed than western comics. As in, western comics have "denser" stories where more things happen per page and panel on average, even though they'vw gotten worse at it over the years. There are fight scenes in Dragon Ball that last for an entire volume, and a fight scene lasting a single issue in the American market is rare. If you account for stylistic differences like that, I don't think it would take that much longer.

>>89828849
More like 5 minutes.

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>>89835447
>As in, western comics have "denser" stories where more things happen per page and panel on average,

This MUST be bait.
I REFUSE to believe otherwise, commissioner!

>>89835435
Batman haters are pathetic.

>>89835496

The dumbest board meme is real.

>>89828849
Floppies are a shitty business models. They need to switch to trades. $10 for a trade is pretty good.

>>89835668
The problem with going full tilt on trades is that they're slow to come out. Floppies are nice and safe because they come out once a month. Companies like steady cashflows. It also helps them gauge the popularity of a comic before the trade so that they don't over/under produce.

>>89829467
>>89829045
Jump and other magazines can get away with the model by having cheap paper and printing mostly in black and white. The prices for DC or Marvel to do the same would be much higher for the fact that all comics are completely colored.

>>89830013
Americans refuse to pay for digest style media. If somebody just wanted Batman they'd throw a fit if they had to pay for Booster Gold and Etrigan too.

What you're suggesting is akin to the idea of cable packaging vs ala carte channels- you know, what killed TV?

>>89829330
/pol/, please leave. We all know you never read comics. Especially since you think Marvel is all comics.

>>89835831
>comics now are shit
>P-P-P-P-POL

Pipe down cuckaroo, the dive in quality is an objective fact and the sales reflect that.
And yes that goes for DC as well, even if they aren't in the same dire situation Marvel is.

>>89830193
Hunter Rose is what Superior Spider-Man should've been. That's how you write an arrogant but intelligent enough to back that arrogance up villain protagonist.

>>89835850
The /pol/tard is immunized against all dangers: one may call him a faggot, shitposter, retard, Redditor, it all runs off him like water off a raincoat. But call him /pol/ and you will be astonished at how he recoils, how injured he is, how he suddenly shrinks back: “I’ve been found out.”

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I absolutely fucking hate floppies. They're too shitty and easily mangled to reasonably collect and keep looking nice, but too expensive and high end to keep from being totally disposable or forgettable. Long boxes and bag and board are fucking awful for storage and preservation, and some LCS will even charge for them.

I would rather have bi weekly black and white comics with 22-26 pages printed on shitty ass newspaper quality paper than these glossy full colour prints with only 20 pages coming out once a month.

>>89835949
You sound like a weeb.

>>89828849
I don't get how floppys are still a thing. I could understand for a preview issue here and there but for every issue it just doesn't make sense. Either switch to digital floppies and just release physical trades or just switch to trades alone. Stutter them the way floppies are stuttered so you have some coming out every month and it'd be fine.

>>89835949
>$3
>expensive and high end

>>89835995
>Either switch to digital floppies and just release physical trades or just switch to trades alone.
Congratulations, you've killed the comic market.
What are you going to do next?

>>89836023
That's STILL too much for only 20 pages anon.

>>89836044
That's a completely separate issue from feeling like you have to treat them nicely because you spent a whopping $3 on it

>>89836023
People are strange when it comes to spending low amounts of money for gimmicky things like comics.
Look at the app market, and you see similar behavior.

>>89835995
you realize floppies pay for trades right
if a comic's floppies don't sell, then the trade may not come out

much easier to cancel something after 3 issues than it is to try to get money back after you released a trade and it didn't sell for shit

>>89835903
Yes, I'm the same guy from 10 hours ago who just checked in because you screamed "POL".
You know, maybe people calling you out has less to do with your amazing inquisitory skills and more to do with the fact that you're a retard.

>>89835995
Because you're able to get money sooner, and potentially sell it to consumers again at a later date.
Let's say that I'm a writer/artist and I have a 12 issue comic. If I can make one issue every month and sell it, I'm able to get a cash flow every month. After six issues, I can wrap up the arc, and then repackage it as a TPB, all while maintaining the monthly floppy sales. I can do it again in another six months, and if it's really popular I can collect it all into an omni.
If I only put out TPB/omnis, I have to wait at least six months before I see my first cent from my product, and there's no install base for my fan community because TPBs cost more money to buy which will put off people who just want a quick, disposable read.

Which one sounds better for the producer?

This is actually a problem that's bugged me for a while.

How long are comics supposed to last, in terms of reading experience? Am I expected to go over each page leisurely, and soak up all the details? Or am I supposed to just zip through the narrative as fast as my reading comprehension allows?

I've always felt like comics are over way too fast, and aren't really satisfying in terms of storytelling. I genuinely can't tell if I'm approaching them the wrong way, with the wrong expectations, or if they're just not for me.

>>89836273
>How do I absorb personal media?
Holy fuck, are you actually retarded or something?

>>89836323
No, just sincerely curious what other people see in this medium, that I apparently don't.

>>89836273
They may just not be for you.
I know I have to make a conscious effort to slow down and enjoy them because I speedread by default.

it would be nice if floppies had some kind of reward where if you buy all of them you can redeem an online coupon to get a trade for cheaper, for dc and marvel you'd be able to get the trade for a different book, etc.

>>89830829
Third option: Marvel Unlimited

>>89832783
>qu'est-ce qu'une bibliothèque ? qu'est-ce qu'un torrent ?

>>89836364
I spend a lot of time on the art, and I also read everything miltiple times. However, my major interest is in silver/bronze age. Quality control has slipped since then.

You're not wrong, it's getting to be way too expensive for what it is. While I may be able to afford it, taking a chance on just two new books each week, sight unseen, would cost $32, absurd. Or even one new book a week at $18.

>>89828849
By buying the tbp instead of the floppies

>>89832790
No I don't but I should

>>89837644
Reading on a screen is shit, library are an option but I just go to them

>>89828945
>>89829924

I've always thought something like this would be cool.

>>89829045

Yeah but it works for them, even with the lower costs because of printing in black and white.

Even if they want to stick to individual issues, they need to sell them in normal stores again. When I was a kid I remember picking up a new comic book like every time we went grocery shopping.

>>89830153

>It's amazing how casuals will watch 5+ hours a week of absolute garbage cheap television like CW and Netflix cape shows, but can't focus for 10 minutes to read a damn comic.

Right? It's literally just stupid normie-casual social stigmas that make it to where we as whole society can't have nice things.

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>>89830067
Thank you for reminding me just how much I hate diamond distribution.

>>89835781
What I don't understand is why they won't do digest for similarly grouped titles.
Like 5 bat-titles in one book.
3 girls titles
(if they still existed) horror titles
surreallist titles
1 or 2 current spiderman titles + 1-3 old reprints.

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>>89833687
>How profitable do you expect DC Super Hero Girls to be?

>The official rollout is in July. We’ve tested the apparel, Wonder Woman’s role-playing shield and bracelets in Target stores since April. It’s selling like gangbusters, and we can’t keep it on the shelves. All of our retailers are excited about getting their hands on the products. We have 30 product categories out now, and will have 70 product categories in more than 35 markets globally after the rollout in July.

>How much will these products bring to Warner Bros.’ bottom line?

>Our overall consumer products represent a $6 billion business. The DC brand brings in about half of that. We think the DC Super Hero Girls can be bigger than a $1 billion brand.

http://fortune.com/2016/05/23/dc-super-hero-girls-diane-nelson/