Quote: ManofTheAtom said: I'll challenge the "kept the industry alive for the last 40 years" remark.
Most of those readers have spent the last 17 years whinning about the lack of monkeys in capes and girls from Krypton to the point of refusing to buy them unless they are dumbed down so their dogs can read them.
You really don't have a clue, do you? Yes, some left when they felt that comics no longer offered them the escapism that they had in the past. But no one left because of a lack of super monkeys and such. Your inability to understand that different people can get different things from comics shows how mentally inept you are.
Quote: ManofTheAtom said: Most of the credit for keeping the biz alive for the last 10 years goes to continuity fans and collectors, not whinners...
Some might bunch the continuity fans in with the whiners. I remember you getting your panties in a bunch because Birthright didn't have Jor-El push the button to send Kal to Earth. If that isn't being a nitpicky whiner, I don't know what is. They are also the people who have made it next to impossible for new fans to pick up books. Without new readers, comics will fade out.
And you can't be serious saying that collectors have kept the industry alive! They almost finished it off in the 90's. The real fans were driven out because of the publishers' decisions to market to the collectors who jumped the shark when they realized that they weren't going to make the money they thought they were. Collectors gave the industry a boost for a few years; then caused the whole thing to go into a slump that they have yet to crawl out of. Collectors almost buried comics. Please get your facts straight when you try to rebut someone's arguement.
whomod said: I generally don't like it when people decide to play by the rules against people who don't play by the rules. It tends to put you immediately at a disadvantage and IMO is a sign of true weakness. This is true both in politics and on the internet."
