Nasty Cockslut aka Uncle Linky

[Guest]

This isn't someone shifting their views because they got older

Usually that shift happens the other way anyway

[Osterzone]

Like the old saying goes, if you're young and conservative, you have no heart, and if you're old and liberal, you have no brain

[whatevs]

And yet the comic industry is only 10% digital sales because they don't push it. Even people like Zach are against it because they are old boomers who can't handle change, I know a lot of cunts in the industry use this as an excuse for why their sales are bad (when they would actually be worse without overshipments) but the main issue holding comics back is the damn price. Most home entertainment has gotten way cheaper with inflation taken into account from games to movies, and yet comics have gotten more expensive with inflation over the past 20 years. The physical cost of printing means they can't drop their prices, along with the decision to stick with glossy paper and no longer using the excess paper from newspapers to make it cheap. Physical copies should only be seen as collectors items.

It's funny to see people (and I wouldn't be surprised if Linkara is among them) bemoan the "dark days" of the 90s speculation boom with all the gimmicks and variant covers, but see nothing odd with seemingly all comics these days having half-dozen variants. Perfectly normal and healthy industry there. When was even the last time an issue of Detective Comics or Amazing Spider-Man was published with no alternate covers whatsoever? You'd think that by 2021 a large majority of readers couldn't care less about cover variants and would just be interested in reading the latest issues digitally.

[BenComicGraphics]

And yet the comic industry is only 10% digital sales because they don't push it. Even people like Zach are against it because they are old boomers who can't handle change, I know a lot of cunts in the industry use this as an excuse for why their sales are bad (when they would actually be worse without overshipments) but the main issue holding comics back is the damn price. Most home entertainment has gotten way cheaper with inflation taken into account from games to movies, and yet comics have gotten more expensive with inflation over the past 20 years. The physical cost of printing means they can't drop their prices, along with the decision to stick with glossy paper and no longer using the excess paper from newspapers to make it cheap. Physical copies should only be seen as collectors items.

It's funny to see people (and I wouldn't be surprised if Linkara is among them) bemoan the "dark days" of the 90s speculation boom with all the gimmicks and variant covers, but see nothing odd with seemingly all comics these days having half-dozen variants. Perfectly normal and healthy industry there. When was even the last time an issue of Detective Comics or Amazing Spider-Man was published with no alternate covers whatsoever? You'd think that by 2021 a large majority of readers couldn't care less about cover variants and would just be interested in reading the latest issues digitally.

The 90's speculation market is nothing compared to the vast amounts of crap the industry is today. Celebrity writers that editors can't control, editors who bend the knee, rotating artists, and every attempt to keep the print arm of it all alive when they should've moved to digital, with cheaper-than-print prices 5 years ago.

I remember when a 'good book' was one that did 60,000 in sales a month. What's the numbers now? like 30?

[RedLine]

This isn't someone shifting their views because they got older; it's them shifting their views as an overblown attempt as a survival mechanism. He's a Quisling.

Jimmy Kimmel is probably the most well known example of this but there are many such cases over the last decade.

[BenComicGraphics]

This isn't someone shifting their views because they got older; it's them shifting their views as an overblown attempt as a survival mechanism. He's a Quisling.

Jimmy Kimmel is probably the most well known example of this but there are many such cases over the last decade.

Jimmy Kimmel was literally tricked to huff Adam Carolla's farts.



Dude is not smart.

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

It's funny to see people (and I wouldn't be surprised if Linkara is among them) bemoan the "dark days" of the 90s speculation boom with all the gimmicks and variant covers, but see nothing odd with seemingly all comics these days having half-dozen variants. Perfectly normal and healthy industry there. When was even the last time an issue of Detective Comics or Amazing Spider-Man was published with no alternate covers whatsoever? You'd think that by 2021 a large majority of readers couldn't care less about cover variants and would just be interested in reading the latest issues digitally.

At least the variant covers of the 90s didn't feature Fat Wonder Woman.

[Kugelfisch]

Tiny Pimmel is the poster child of a Hollywood faggot. He'd stab his granny to further his career. He has no principles and no soul.

[Osterzone]

My favorite story of Kimmel is that his LA mansion wasn't enough for him and he persuaded his next door neighbor to sell him his house so he could have a bar separate from his house.

[Guest]

Linky is fat and gay