Wal-mart sells comics now What do you think of this?

>>94465272
Why 3 packs,though?
Most stories are build to be a 5 issue story arc.
Could sell them 5 for $10, make themselves more money and reader would have a full story.

>>94465355
People buying comics at Wal-Mart are primarily looking for value and chances are they're giving it to their kids as a cheap gift

>>94465355
are they single story, though?, or is it like grab bags, where you get a flash and a superman and a batman or stuff like that?, 'cause if it's the second, making it 5 issues is pointless if you're getting random bits of different comic arcs.

I checked them out once and it's shit. I got the Flash one assuming it would give me the first few issues of the rebirth. Instead it gave me the rebirth issue #1, issue #31 of The Flash New 52, and Issue #2 of Forever Evil Rogues Rebellion. The least they could have done was be consistent.

>>94465355
it's called a trade.

>now

Back when the Sanic camic was new I always got them at Walmart.

>>94465272
>Starts selling comics at supermarkets like the rest of the world
>Does so in the most retarded way.

What is wrong with DC?

They've been there for a while. Bought a couple myself, just to see what was in them. X-Men Prime and All New Wolverine on the front, they had Bendis hiding in the middle, and a $1 True Believers issue at the back. There's absolutely no value to any of it at all. They suck.

Anyone want a couple of comics written by Bendis?

>>94465272
They have been selling comics in Wal marts for a while now. I hate how there kinda hidden in the store.

>>94465911

Actually DC sells relevant trades with their DVDs. What Walmart is doing is grabbing up issues nobody bought and packaging them for cheap.

SHART IN MART

I bought a DC one and a Marvel one
DC one had
>Batman Rebirth 1 (the advertised book)
>Gotham Academy 2nd printing
>Snyder Batman 37

Marvel one had
>Great lake Avengers 1 (the one advertised)
>Karnak 1
>Secret Wars II third printing

>>94465272
It is fucking great it's for kids, for parents to placate them for a bit and maybe, maybe, get them addicted for life.

>>94465272
I bought a couple of packs for a road trip. Makes me wish we had comics back in grocery stores although it will never happen

>>94465272
>Now
Try for the last year and a half, minimum.

>>94465355
>>94465398
They aren't even stocked by Walmart, they're lumped in with the trading cards and Funko pops and all the other shit up on the front registers. A third-party vendor controls stocking, bringing in new stuff, cleaning up the section, etc. The product isn't even counted as part of the store inventory, since Walmart only pays for the stuff that gets sold.

>>94465578
>>94465964
You do understand how big box retailers operate, right? They sell 2 or 3 types of 100 different kinds of merchandise, not 100 types of 1 kind of merchandise

>>94465272
>now

>>94465272
What's the comic on the left? I can't fucking read it.

>>94465272

not where i live :(

>>94466300
GLA #1

>>94466306
check the trading cards/pops by the checkout. They arent by normal books

>>94465272
Why so expensive? 20 for 3 floppies is way more expensive

>>94466300
Great Lakes Avengers

>19 dollars for 3 floppies
What is the extra 5 dollars for?

>>94466744
>>94466906
the $20 price tag is for the item on the top shelf.
The DC pack is $5 and the Marvel pack is $10

>>94465911
I don't know if you're aware of this, but DC and Marvel can't sell on the supermarket unless the supermarket itself wants to sell it.

>>94466744
You idiot, the $20 is for some tin box of cards above it. The comic packs are $5 each.

>>94465272
i bought two once thinking each 3 pack came with 3 of the same run, and when i opened them was really disappointed when I realized they're 3 different runs.

>>94465911

You do realise the one on the left is Marvel, right?

company war faggots are the worst.

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If I had any kids I'll rather buy Archie Comics' Digest versions of Marvel Comics, that are also going to be available in supermarkets, than a 3-pack of "mainstream" floppies of either Marvel or DC that they won't even understand due to the continuity porn.

I bet the former it's better written more fun to read too.

>>94467793
Flipped through one of these in line at the store. Seems neat, would have loved these as a kid

>The packs are made up of comics no one bought
>Great Lakes Avengers front and center

:(

>>94467793

I wish Disney would do that with their comics. I don't think they've tried it on the newstands since the '80s when the license was still with Gladstone Comics.

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>>94465272
God I miss the good old days of comics in the grocery store.

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>>94467793
too bad those are 7 bucks each

>>94467793
It's interesting but it's kind of weird to realize the Spider-Man digest's got like at least three vastly different takes in the same book. One's from the Ditko era, another is from the Bronze Age, where Betty and Ned get married and Doc Ock romances Aunt May, another is an 00's remake of Lee/Ditko Vulture stories, another is the Sinister Six story from Marvel Adventures Spider-Man, and the rest are based on the Ultimate Spider-Man cartoon.

>>94465272
It's not the newsstand but it's an improvment.

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its never worth it. random grab bags of crap they couldn't sell.

Injustice year one #1
Future's End Green Lantern Corps one shot
I can't even remember the 3rd one

Doctor Strange #1
Vader Down tie in
Secret Wars #7 2nd printing (I've gotten this twice)

better off tradewaiting/pirating

>>94468629

Have you seen lately what a actual paperback novel in that size costs at a bookstore? because its as much or more than that.

I've become sour with Marvel over the last couple years because they keep fucking around with things, but this is a really good decision on their part, because as another anon said "I would have loved these as a kid"

I'd be willing to bet it was mostly Disneys publishing area/wing/dept/whatever that helped a ton with it.

>>94470077
yeah i hate how marvel trades recently are like 5 issues and they charge $30 for it baka

>>94465964
>There's absolutely no value to any of it at all. They suck.
You are what killed comic books. You realize that, right? By pretending comic books have some sort of intrinsic rarity value, unlike all other mass-published media, you basically destroyed the market for them because nobody can give a fuck about actual good writing, better art, or even consistent storylines. All they want is MUH COLLECTABLE.

Why aren't the packages $3 each since they're dollar bin floppies nobody wanted in the first place? This pricing is really propelling my peanuts

Ha ha, can't wait for this to end the same way it did last time: a mother sees blood in X-Men, bitches, and Wal Mart folds faster than Superman on laundry day.

>>94470173

The single volume tpbs that come out right away have been overpriced for years now, esp considering how thin the damn paper they use is.
Image tpbs for ex have a heavier weight paper and usually some extras, even though ppl criticize them for only doing 5 issues per book, also the first vol is only 10bucks.